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Originally Posted by BrianG

The naysayers will argue that this isn't really a "green" vehicle since the electricity used to charge it ultimately comes from burning fossil fuels in most cases. But it is more efficient to have one giant "engine" generating the power that to have an engine in each car. Would be easier to control emissions too.
Exactly right Brian, criticism EV's have always been the 'relocated emissions' tactic, when in reality is FAR cleaner. Clean coal burning power plants are really that good.


I'm wondering how the cabin will be heated in winter. Electric heat is "expensive" in terms of power requirements, and it HAS to eat into the mileage. Speaking of that, I wonder what the base mileage is for winter vs summer.
This is an inherent issue with EV's, and will require maybe a propane heat exchanger. This is what I will be doing with my Toyota truck, as our winters can pretty cold, consistently -20 C, and lows of -35 C.


Personally, I'd like to see an option for more capacity for people who feel 100 miles is not quite enough. Heck, even a manual bank-switching scheme would work. Even if double the capacity is not feasible (but it does look like there is plenty of room in the trunk), a "reserve" bank would be nice. Kinda like on some larger pickups where you flip a switch to swap between two gas tanks; my old employer had an F-450 (IIRC) box truck that had this.
THey usually build an artificial reserve bank into the main pack, just software programming really.

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