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Originally Posted by LittleBlackDuck
I don't know why you would bother with all this crap on a new vehicle that is totally emission free. Sounds to me like you are trying to ram a square peg into a triangular hole. What about a larger battery pack made from another leaf (or two) that loads into the luggage area for longer trips? More efficient, still zero emissions and does not look totally ridiculous.
Simon
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For the trips I need to take I'll need to charge at least 2, maybe 3 times (perhaps more) to get to the places I need to go. So that would require adding a couple of leaf battery packs (or more, or around 1,700lbs (or more) of weight. Otherwise I'm basically on the same boat. With a larger battery pack I might make it from charging station to charging station, but I'd have to wait longer at each station for a complete charge. Only if I had a 1,700lb battery trailer I might make it clear to any destination, then let it charge up there (with a 6.6kW charger at 12 hours?!)
At that price (and waiting time to charge) I might as well as A) just drive it with the battery it has and carry along a small generator for emergencies and make 3 hour trips turn into 12 hour trips. Or B) buy or rent a newer ICE car. Or C) just keep driving my mosquito fogger (my 1985 diesel), in which case it would cause worse for emissions than what I'm striving after.
A pusher trailer can be used temporarily like I said, maybe 10 or 12 days out of the year (the other 353-355 days would still be all electric). I can still opt to wait at charging stations and drive mostly, if not all electric on long trips whenever I want. I can use propane, a low carbon fuel, instead of being stuck with gasoline or diesel as my only other options. I wouldn't have a whole ICE car just sitting in the drive way 353 days out of the year. I wouldn't have to hassle with the towns only car rental that's oddly vacant every time I stop in there.