better yet...my 22, 2 door stick Badlands has the High/ Lux andhas both of the options...maybe Dan missed the fact to get the 360 you need to go with the High/lux package...perhaps he wished it was in the lower levels...
I’m not talking about drivability, I’m just thinking that an engine that’s designed to work higher in the revs is going to work more efficiently at a higher RPM than one that’s designed to earn its pay lower in the revs.
Correct me if I'm wrong chaps, but with these range extender setups, the engine is never powering the vehicle itself. Power and acceleration isn't impacted by the engine directly, nor is any of the strain of moving the vehicle down the road placed on the engine. So with that in mind, isn't making the range extender a 5.0 a bit overkill? If the engine isn't doing anything other than recharging the batteries, why does it need to be this great big thumping V8. Wouldn't using a smaller, cheaper, and more fuel efficient engine make more sense for this application?
Them Tacoma hybrid turbo trucks sell real quick. My son-in-law saw one arrive on the lot at O'Brien Toyota in Indianapolis. When he contacted the dealership a day later for a test drive, they said it already sold
This. There are actually 2 ways to run a generator, the first and most desirable is at peak efficiency. That would be finding the point in the RPM vs Hp band that has the lowest specific fuel consumption. Ideally this is where the bulk of the recharge would be, likely equivalent to a lower RPM with a lot of vacuum. The second would be to run at peak power output. This would be used to supplement the battery (likely bypassing the recharge) and supply maximum kW to the motors directly. This is though would require a generator that can operate efficiently at that peak power input rpm and has the capacity to efficiently generate power there.