Is there anything SM could offer to get you to switch from EREV to BEV?

[CanadianMalts]

For what it's worth, I just switched my reso from Harvester to BEV. After doing a candid review of my usage, 90% of my mileage is a 50 km round trip into Edmonton, 9% is a drive out to where my farm and parents are with some short distance single axle trailer towing for moving my bees, and 1% is 300 km away to Calgary, a major city with tons of chargers. There is a 0.01% of doing a cross-province road trip in which case we take the RAV4 hybrid or go rent a 3/4 or 1 ton truck if I'm towing something. No problem.

 

[cyure]

For what it's worth, I just switched my reso from Harvester to BEV. After doing a candid review of my usage, 90% of my mileage is a 50 km round trip into Edmonton, 9% is a drive out to where my farm and parents are with some short distance single axle trailer towing for moving my bees, and 1% is 300 km away to Calgary, a major city with tons of chargers. There is a 0.01% of doing a cross-province road trip in which case we take the RAV4 hybrid or go rent a 3/4 or 1 ton truck if I'm towing something. No problem.

Welcome to the BEV club!

 

[LastDayScout]

For what it's worth, I just switched my reso from Harvester to BEV. After doing a candid review of my usage, 90% of my mileage is a 50 km round trip into Edmonton, 9% is a drive out to where my farm and parents are with some short distance single axle trailer towing for moving my bees, and 1% is 300 km away to Calgary, a major city with tons of chargers. There is a 0.01% of doing a cross-province road trip in which case we take the RAV4 hybrid or go rent a 3/4 or 1 ton truck if I'm towing something. No problem.

Excellent. I really like how you took the time to self examine your use case. What you said makes perfect sense.

 

[CanadianMalts]

Excellent. I really like how you took the time to self examine your use case. What you said makes perfect sense.

Don't discount the rental option. For what one can save in maintenance costs, could easily pay for multiple truck rentals a year if infrequent towing is needed.

 

[JBFL]

For what it's worth, I just switched my reso from Harvester to BEV. After doing a candid review of my usage, 90% of my mileage is a 50 km round trip into Edmonton, 9% is a drive out to where my farm and parents are with some short distance single axle trailer towing for moving my bees, and 1% is 300 km away to Calgary, a major city with tons of chargers. There is a 0.01% of doing a cross-province road trip in which case we take the RAV4 hybrid or go rent a 3/4 or 1 ton truck if I'm towing something. No problem.

Oddly enough I did the same the other day. I had EREV initially given my concern for hurricanes. Then when I looked into the down time for even the most severe hurricanes as well as the amount of busyness of the charging stations when there was an evacuation it showed me a couple of things.

1. The charging stations tend to get power to them BEFORE the gas stations with the average down time being 2-3 days.
2. With our last few hurricanes Ian/Milton/Helene during the evacuation only 60% of fast L3 chargers were taken up at any given time with no widespread reports of inability to get a charge.
3. If I REALLLLY had to I could go over to my folks house who have a whole home generator with a Total Harmonic Distortion < 5% and could charge it up there if I really had to. They have a NEMA plug with a 50amp breaker already installed for future EV charging.
4. I really really REALLY like having a BEV now and the amount of maintenance I have to do currently is ridiculously small. I think I was falling into the hype of having the EREV but wasn't thinking as rationally as I probably should have about it with fear of storms.

 

[cyure]

Oddly enough I did the same the other day. I had EREV initially given my concern for hurricanes. Then when I looked into the down time for even the most severe hurricanes as well as the amount of busyness of the charging stations when there was an evacuation it showed me a couple of things.

1. The charging stations tend to get power to them BEFORE the gas stations with the average down time being 2-3 days.
2. With our last few hurricanes Ian/Milton/Helene during the evacuation only 60% of fast L3 chargers were taken up at any given time with no widespread reports of inability to get a charge.
3. If I REALLLLY had to I could go over to my folks house who have a whole home generator with a Total Harmonic Distortion < 5% and could charge it up there if I really had to. They have a NEMA plug with a 50amp breaker already installed for future EV charging.
4. I really really REALLY like having a BEV now and the amount of maintenance I have to do currently is ridiculously small. I think I was falling into the hype of having the EREV but wasn't thinking as rationally as I probably should have about it with fear of storms.

Welcome to the community. Have you officially switched your reservation?

 

[CanadianMalts]

I mean, if I was keeping with the theme of the thread, knowing that Scout would support a battery retrofit to sodium or SSB in 10 years would be a "take my money" moment.

 

[JBernhardFL]

Welcome to the community. Have you officially switched your reservation?

Yes. I switched it a few weeks ago to a BEV terra.

 

[J Alynn]

For what it's worth, I just switched my reso from Harvester to BEV. After doing a candid review of my usage, 90% of my mileage is a 50 km round trip into Edmonton, 9% is a drive out to where my farm and parents are with some short distance single axle trailer towing for moving my bees, and 1% is 300 km away to Calgary, a major city with tons of chargers. There is a 0.01% of doing a cross-province road trip in which case we take the RAV4 hybrid or go rent a 3/4 or 1 ton truck if I'm towing something. No problem.

Congrats. Hope all the positive BEV use cases here on the forum swayed your thinking as well

 

[04Ram2500Hemi]

For what it's worth, I just switched my reso from Harvester to BEV. After doing a candid review of my usage, 90% of my mileage is a 50 km round trip into Edmonton, 9% is a drive out to where my farm and parents are with some short distance single axle trailer towing for moving my bees, and 1% is 300 km away to Calgary, a major city with tons of chargers. There is a 0.01% of doing a cross-province road trip in which case we take the RAV4 hybrid or go rent a 3/4 or 1 ton truck if I'm towing something. No problem.

One less person between me and my Harvester reservation…

I’m torn between Traveler and Terra. I’ve got a Traveler reserved for now. It could very well end up being the wife’s vehicle. A lot of it comes down to the towing capacity of the Terra Harvester.

 

[Schmeegz]

i don't think there is anything Scout can do themselves to get me to switch, however, if batteries were to suddenly be able to charge in <10 min, and perform to their fullest in NorthEast winters, I'd be down for sure.