StuartV
Ram Guru
I wonder how towing will work. As in, you have gobs of torque with a fully charged battery plant. It will get depleted pretty quick if you are towing something like a camper.
So the V6 kicks in to charge the batteries, but do you lose some of your towing capacity until the batteries charge to a certain level?
Guess we won't know until it's tested.
From what I've read/seen, I think the towing will be just fine unless maybe you are towing really heavy and going uphill the whole time.
I mean, when towing now, how much of the time are you running at full throttle? Very little.
My expectation is that all that driving while towing where you are actually only using a modest amount of throttle is the time when the generator will be catching the battery back up to the charge level that you need for those times when you are really using the available power.
E.g. you tow up a long grade and the batteries are getting sucked down the whole way, even with the generator running at max to try and keep up. But then, as soon as you get to a flat or start down a grade, then the generator keeps running and the battery gets charged back up and ready for the next uphill grade.
So, you have all the power/torque of the battery pack/electric motors available basically all the time. Except, potentially in some real worst-case scenarios.