Full size FWD electric pickup truck with 300 mile range and 15 minute FULL recharge time

[juleswin]

If you read the fine print in the video it says that you have to use an "advanced charging station" to get a 15 minute charge.

Makes sense, it takes me 1hr to fast charge my cell phone at home.

 

[RonPaulIsGreat]

It'd be nice if all these electric vehicles did the obvious thing, and put a 20 amp 120volt built in inverter / and or sold a bi-directional solar charger/inverter that could plug into your electric vehicle.

I think it would be nice if you could plug all your normal household stuff into your car if their was a disaster, A tesla battery could keep a refrigerator running for days at least, or if you went camping, or to the beach you could plug in a minifridge or just use your regular household charger for your laptop etc... Seems odd Tesla doesn't have it. Hopfully these trucks will, it'd be cool if you could run tools off the truck AC and use your standard tool chargers, sure it'd cut down mileage range but probably not that much, unless you ran something like an air compressor on it all day.

 

[Anti Federalist]

That is such a horrible idea. No engineer worth his/her salt would dare come u with such a terrible idea. I can think of a spare battery that you can detach and charge up at some recharging station. But to carry around a working generator just for the few times you run out of gas is just stupid.

Jesus Christ.

Huh?

That's basically every diesel/electric railroad locomotive that has been built since the 1920s to today.

ICE direct to Electric or ICE - Battery - Electric.

A true hybrid car, running direct electric drive with an onboard diesel engine to charge the batteries as needed when they drain could produce 125 MPG economy.

 

[dannno]

It'd be nice if all these electric vehicles did the obvious thing, and put a 20 amp 120volt built in inverter / and or sold a bi-directional solar charger/inverter that could plug into your electric vehicle.

I think it would be nice if you could plug all your normal household stuff into your car if their was a disaster, A tesla battery could keep a refrigerator running for days at least, or if you went camping, or to the beach you could plug in a minifridge or just use your regular household charger for your laptop etc... Seems odd Tesla doesn't have it. Hopfully these trucks will, it'd be cool if you could run tools off the truck AC and use your standard tool chargers, sure it'd cut down mileage range but probably not that much, unless you ran something like an air compressor on it all day.

Thomas Massie hooked up some solar panels to some tesla batteries he salvaged off of a wrecked tesla and used them to power his house.

 

[TheTexan]

Maybe instead of a generator, install an actual engine that uses gas

 

[dannno]

Maybe instead of a generator, install an actual engine that uses gas

gen·er·a·tor
/ˈjenəˌrādər/
noun
noun: generator; plural noun: generators

1. An actual engine that uses gas

 

[TheTexan]

gen·er·a·tor
/ˈjenəˌrādər/
noun
noun: generator; plural noun: generators

1. An actual engine that uses gas

Next step is to install it in the front of the truck

 

[dannno]

Next step is to install it in the front of the truck

There's a giant cargo space in the front where the engine normally is. It even has a tailgate. Imagine, a truck with two tailgaits. You could have a double tailgate party at the big game, sorta like having a side piece.

 

[Stratovarious]

''You can keep your gas card''
''Your electric bill will not go up''

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

jerrycan

jerry can

jerrycan?

If anyone can do it, Jerry can.

 

[dannno]

If anyone can do it, Jerry can.

I thought they named it after Jerry, the first guy to run out of gas.

 

[Stratovarious]

I thought they named it after Jerry, the first guy to run out of gas.

Correct!!
I wonder if the original spelling might have been Gerry can; credit to the German's usage of it.
Another term I grew up hearing a lot was Gerry rigged, which meant , a German improvisations,
a pejorative term, but it seems if I'm right, that the revisionists have morphed it into
the term Jury rigged, they are the same crowd I believe as the ones that think robbery and theft
are one in the same.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I thought they named it after Jerry, the first guy to run out of gas.

 

[Stratovarious]

If everyone switches to electric vehicles , lets say hypothetically by 2025 what is
going to be the clean, safe and responsibly power source to feed the grid, are
Electric Vehicles also going to 'solve' the perceived problem with CO2 in
the bargain?

 

[DamianTV]

I've yet to be excited by any electric vehicles, but this one...maybe.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Do the batteries last longer than 5 years?

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I don't care what my car runs on. As long as it looks good.

 

[phill4paul]

OK, not going in depth, but a quick search yields the following. The Tesla home SuperCharger is about like the commercial 15 min. chargers. It supplies 90Kw of electricity. A 90Kw generator is gonna cost you around $25k and weigh around 2000#'s.

 

[juleswin]

Huh?

That's basically every diesel/electric railroad locomotive that has been built since the 1920s to today.

ICE direct to Electric or ICE - Battery - Electric.

A true hybrid car, running direct electric drive with an onboard diesel engine to charge the batteries as needed when they drain could produce 125 MPG economy.

Obviously we weren't talking about a hybrid engine, if that was the case then why ask what the equivalent of a jerrycan is to the truck? if the discussion was about a hybrid then you just bring a jerrycan and fill up the gas and case closed. But think about this way, do you think Tesla seperate generator engine just to charge the battery in the rare times you run out of gas if they made a truck? the answer is "hell no".

You don't add in a seperate engine just for charging. Hybrid engine I can understand but not a seperate one. Btw, the gasoline engine in hybrid engines do not chargee the batteries, the just power the vehicle until the next charge.

 

[juleswin]

If anyone can do it, Jerry can.

I have always called it a jerrycan. And yea, jerrican, jerrycan or jerry can are correct spellings for it

Look it up.

 

[juleswin]

Huh?

That's basically every diesel/electric railroad locomotive that has been built since the 1920s to today.

ICE direct to Electric or ICE - Battery - Electric.

A true hybrid car, running direct electric drive with an onboard diesel engine to charge the batteries as needed when they drain could produce 125 MPG economy.

Look at the website of the Atlis XT Electric Pickup truck and they are not using a hybrid engine, 100% electric engine. So yea, they would need to add a new engine to achieve this gas charging mechanism which again is stupid. You waste energy when you convert energy from gas to battery to use to power the car. If it has a gas generator in it, it would be far more efficient to use it to power the vehicle and not to charge the battery. The original point I was trying to make.

http://www.atlismotorvehicles.com/xt-truck