If the estimated range of the EV Terra is 350 miles and the EV/gas is estimated at 500 miles, what would be the estimated range on range on battery before the generator kicks in?
EV/Gas Scout Terra
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Suspect it will come down to a lot of factors but @THil08 is in the same neighborhood I would guess but if heavy strain sooner and easy cruising probably closer to 80-100
I thought Scout has said 150 miles range on the battery for the Harvester model, then generator extends to a total of 500. Am I mistaken on that?
No you’re right, he’s asking about when the harvester will kick on. Like when driving normally.
This is correct.
Given that they seem to be talking about "gas and go" for freeway travel, I'm expecting the EV only range to be ~150 miles before the harvester turns on, in normal operating conditions. I really don't expect them to let you drive the vehicle down to 0% SOC before the generator comes on. So I'm assuming once you hit ~5-20% SOC, the generator will kick on, in "auto" mode. And that is what I'd assume the ~150 mile range comes from.
If you are going on a long road trip, and want to keep the batteries SOC closer to ~50-80% or something like that (like if you know you are going to be going up huge passes in the mountains, or you are towing), then I'd assume you can manually turn it on earlier. They've shown the slider where you can set the target %% in the UI already (in the CES videos).
But if it functions like a normal PHEV (which I know this is not), they typically default to using all the available EV range, before they fall back to the gas engine. In my PHEV's case, that is after ~30 miles, when going over ~80mph, or, when we turn on the heater (we don't have a heat pump, or resistive heater).
I suppose it could be lower. But I really don't think they'll be advertising how far it can go if you drive it to 0% SOC, because the performance would start to degrade pretty heavily once you get close to 0%. So whatever that minimum SOC is where they turn on the generator, thats what I'm guessing is the "EV only" range, of 150 miles.
Guess we'll see though
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I really don't think anyone knows the answer to this question including Scout. I am all in on Terra total EV. When they actually figure it out I will reconsider Harvester.
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