Glad I didn’t take your advice. My 8 year old son said dad since you have the airbag system installed and you have another compressor with a tank and air plumbed in the bed, why don’t you add a horn?
driving down I-40 with my fiver and a tractor trailer was merging into my lane and the only place I had to go was the ditch at 65mph. I hammered the horn and he just kept on coming. Luckily I remembered the new horn and hit the number 5 up fitter and laid down on it.
that sumbitch moved back in his lane most rikki tik.
Folks don’t listen to this crap advice. You do you and let the others be the Gladys Kravitz of the world.
An EREV pickup would be the perfect solution for my wife. She commutes 21 miles per day each way to/from work, but tows her horse trailer to shows sometimes 100+ miles each way on the weekends. With the Lightning's meager towing range, we just couldn't make it work, so we have a PowerBoost F-150 for now. With an EREV, we can plug it in at the house every night and she can commute all week as a pure EV, then get the 300+ miles of towing range needed on the weekends.
Once Ford comes out with their Ramcharger-like EREV, we'll be ordering on day one!
Correct, the Chevrolet Trax for one seemed a lot more in line with customer expectations,
Ford benchmarking this type of small vehicle when developing the Puma for Europe..
For global markets, I think something more like a Gen 1 boxy Escape, something slightly
narrower than Bronco Sport would be more in line for what ROW markets really want.
I’m skeptical about this, I don’t see people suddenly changing their minds about buying electric vehicles
just because Ford starts producing PHEVs with bigger batteries. Driving around with a big battery that
gets recharged on the run isn’t really that efficient either. Is this just a way of saving face?
If this is Ford’s plan B, I think they’re still lost on what buyers really want and just throwing spaghetti against the wall…
and an ICE that doesn’t directly drive the wheels introduces another point of inefficiency,
the very reason why we had decades of parallel drive hybrids…
And there’s also legislation (California?) that stops charge sustain mode for PHEVs,
so the battery must eventually run down with no on the run recharging to top up
the battery permitted.
Precisely. You run the engine in it's most efficient operating range and just let it generate electricity. Also, keep in mind, you only have to use that when the batteries are exhausted. With a 150 mile range, for many people, the engine will never even run. It also removes a lot of complexity from a vehicle as well. No transmission. Everything around the engine is built to work at xxxx RPM, so everything is tuned to work at that specific RPM.
Reading the Detroit News article, an EREV, because of the smaller battery, would be cheaper than a "conventional" EV. You also never have to pull into an EV charging station. It seems that EREV's address two of the biggest obstacles to EV adoption. Unless I'm misinterpreting what I'm reading.
Not bad, I wouldn't be surprised if they took the overall pikes peak record with this. Supervan had considerably less down force, and probably won't be as powerful as this. I'm guessing it'll have around 2,000 hp.
Now the game changer which I’ve been pointing out for years is you could use ANY type of generator, not just a typical 4 stroke gas vehicle engine. It could be smaller and use any type of fuel although as a range extender it would need to be gas or diesel to be practical. But lots more options if it doesn’t connect to a transmission or directly to the drivetrain.