F-150 Lightning BEV to EREV Strategy - Hank Green

[cyure]

That's been my mentality too. We do a 16 hour, 1,000 mile one-way trip every summer. I would break it into 2 days, but we're trying to maximize time with grandparents and other family.

The more I've thought about it though; the more I'm thinking how we tend to stop, is we're taking a good 20 minute break at least on most stops. So I'm thinking BEV can do it. For reference, I've done that trip in 14 hours by myself, but that was one time in my early 20s. Also, my nephew and his wife did it in a Tesla Model 3 in roughly the same amount of time. They had the disadvantage of being 3 hours south of us too.

Same calculation in this house. I keep thinking I need to buy for the 90% of my travel not the 10% and being WFH I don’t need an EREV for my daily travel. I really feel I would be one of those people where my Scout would be telling me you have to use the gas in the tank because it’s been sitting too long.

 

[R1TVT]

I saw this on YouTube the other night and chuckled as the story is brand new and yet Scout announced VW sourced engines months ago. Not sure where that YouTuber’s source came from?

Sounds like someone made a Youtube ad with a conspiracy theory built-in

 

[Gottesacker]

Same calculation in this house. I keep thinking I need to buy for the 90% of my travel not the 10% and being WFH I don’t need an EREV for my daily travel. I really feel I would be one of those people where my Scout would be telling me you have to use the gas in the tank because it’s been sitting too long.

I feel like that would ultimately be my case as well. An engine that's just not getting used as often as it should with parts deteriorating faster than they should because of it.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Sounds like you are leaning towards a 7000 pound Terra Harvester…

I think it will depend on how Scout Motors decides to do their frame and any subframes or substructures. If they go steel like Ford did, yeah, probably around 7.5k - 9k pounds is my guess. If they choose an aluminum alloy, for structural, non-safety parts, then they could save a fair amount of mass. But then they have to deal the misunderstanding of materials engineering by the public. I haven't looked, recently, for any of those details.

 

[maynard]

I think it will depend on how Scout Motors decides to do their frame and any subframes or substructures. If they go steel like Ford did, yeah, probably around 7.5k - 9k pounds is my guess. If they choose an aluminum alloy, for structural, non-safety parts, then they could save a fair amount of mass. But then they have to deal the misunderstanding of materials engineering by the public. I haven't looked, recently, for any of those details.

I would be all for the aluminum body panels like my F150 had (Michigan is a rust-belt state).

 

[speedrye]

I would be all for the aluminum body panels like my F150 had (Michigan is a rust-belt state).

I just had a guy out to the house for some paintless dent repair on a few door dings from parking lots** on the vehicles. Aluminum panel cost twice what the steel panels did. Guy was an artist though!

**Apparently it doesn't matter how far away I park or how protected the vehicle is, people are still A-holes.