Charging while driving…Wild, irresponsible speculation...

[LastDayScout]

Tried and true rear suspension for solid axles and offroad capability would be a separate shock and coil spring setup.

Coilovers are more complex, and expensive. They also need a lot of room to have meaning amounts of travel. My buddy has King coilovers on his Dana 60 swapped GX470. We had to cut the body in the rear passenger compartment to let the struts stick about 12” into the cargo area.

It’s possible, but not likely.

Coil spring buckets are easy to swap air bags into and you can use the same shocks for coil spring and air spring models.

Maybe a 5 link setup to keep it all together?

I think the concept of BEVs being less complex and requiring little to no maintenance is something ICE folks just aren’t aware of.

Most of it comes down to people wanting to be able to fix them if they break down on the side of the trail. Not necessarily wanting to do their own maintenance.

I opened the hood of a few TRD Pro Sequoias I test drove and WOW. They really have gone in a completely different direction. Even the non-hybrid engines are absolutely crammed in there with pipes and hoses running everywhere. You can’t even see a valve covers anymore without tearing into a spaghetti of coolant and oil lines.

There is literally no way I could get into one and pull the spark plugs or swap a water pump without spending most of the day taking things off and making a mess.

It will come down to educating the customers on why EVs are less likely to fail and have less things to go wrong off grid. A lot of that crowd leans conservative and does not like EVs since it is viewed as a political issue. But if you can just focus on the advantages and how they will make life easier for them they may come around.


They need to bring back that FJ Yellow they had years ago. But they seem to be in their earth tone era.

There is our little ray of sunshine!

Great point. Toyota dealerships here are really bad about that. They barely have any new cars on their lot and want a premium on all of them.

There will definitely be an advantage to the direct sales model for us with Scout.

I will echo the maintenance reduction with a real world example. I have had my BMW iX since February of 2023. It has 44,943 miles on it as of this moment. I have changed tires once, changed wiper blades once, flushed and refilled the brake system once, cabin filter twice and added about 5 gallons of washer fluid since I have owned it. That is it.

 

[BeerParty]

That is way too reasonable for this thread.

Remember, the OP said "wildly irresponsible ideas for EVs." You can't just go and hijack a thread like this with a suggestion like park-and-charge. We need ideas on how to take advantage of connecting power from the trailer to the truck when it is driving. And, if by some miracle we can come up with an actual use case, maybe someone will work on the engineering to provide that connection. But I'd rather see unreasonable suggestions - they are a lot more fun!

I am the OP!

Well then, double shame on you!