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I just hope those specs are real, you know what they say, "If it sounds to good to be true" I'm closely watching that truck and suv as a possible next vehicle purchase. Ideal for me being in the city and I have a 6kW solar array on my roof that gives back to the grid what I don't use.
No more oil changes, no more gas, no more filters except maybe a cabin filter if it comes with one.
I'm not getting my hopes up just yet.
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So if you have to make a 600 mile run in a day, 300 out, 300 back home which I have had to do more than a few times I wouldn't be able to use this truck because I would be 200 miles short. How long is the recharge time on these, if anyone knows? That's the main drawback I see with these type vehicles.
So if you have to make a 600 mile run in a day, 300 out, 300 back home which I have had to do more than a few times I wouldn't be able to use this truck because I would be 200 miles short. How long is the recharge time on these, if anyone knows? That's the main drawback I see with these type vehicles.
Lots of unanswered questions about these vehicles. Here's a link to their website. www.rivian.com and you'll know as much about them as anyone else.
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So if you have to make a 600 mile run in a day, 300 out, 300 back home which I have had to do more than a few times I wouldn't be able to use this truck because I would be 200 miles short. How long is the recharge time on these, if anyone knows? That's the main drawback I see with these type vehicles.
True, and a truck isn't a truck if it can't even town anything. The main reason to own a truck is to haul and tow. But this thing is just for efficiency, nothing more. May as well buy a Tesla and add a hitch........
Better hope there is an outlet on the beach to plug that thing in....lol. I imagine all that 4 wheeling and spirited driving shown in the video uses more juice than just cruising on the interstate. I feel like
we are heading towards all electric and even autonomous vehicles in the future whether we like it or not. I like the idea/concept... and the acceleration of these things has to be a blast but I hope I am gone before the
internal combustion engine has gone the way of steam.
But the big Tesla uses 32 kwh to go 100 miles. So for 400 miles, it uses 128 kwh. At 12 cents per kwh, which is what I pay locally, that is $15.36 to "fill it up". Right at your home.
What do you pay for a 400 mile fill-up?
I couldn't answer this because I haven't had a fill up for less than 500 miles except when towing and that was only 200 miles.
To make these more energy efficient and "green", a bank of batteries and solar/wind to charge them, connected to the charging system would be the way to go. Only time that it would use the grid would be when the weather blocks the sun and no wind to spin the turbine.
Here's the downside of this though, storage batteries. If using the lead/acid, or Gel, or even AGM, they should be kept warm, which means in the house. They can outgas, so ventilation is required (yes even an AGM or Gel can put out gasses if too much current is applied). Getting Lithium batteries would be ideal, they can be in a shed away from the house, or mounted in the garage, but they are expensive and require critical monitoring to prevent over/under charging and current draw.
Technology is improving and one day all IC engines will be a thing of the past, but we aren't anywhere near that yet.
Oh man...I'm getting rid of my slow POS. It will only do 0-60 in 3.96 seconds.
Seriously I don't have any faith in these upstart companies when even Telsa is struggling financially. Eventually they all go the way of Tucker, Bricklin, DeLorean and countless others.
At some point the technology of the batteries will improve to the point that electric vehicles can go several hundred miles farther than they do now. And then batteries could be strong enough to allow a truck to tow a decent load. I agree that they aren't as green as it appears on the surface due to the power needed to recharge. But not all truck owners are looking to tow heavy loads. Many will only tow a utility trailer or maybe not at all and just use the bed for hauling stuff around. Those are the folks that will be the main buyer of a truck like this. And I'd like to see the data of percentage of truck buyers who rarely or never tow anything. It's probably higher than expected.
I really did like the idea of the Volt, plug it in or just drive using gas. GM did kill it with the $40,000 price tag and poor quality. Never will convince the used market to purchase electric/hybrid past 100k and 5 years. Not many willing to play that game of musical chairs.
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