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Old 12-05-2018, 12:02 AM   #12 (permalink)
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It's intriguing but I think the dynamics of a powered trailer are difficult, especially here where the roads are snowy and icy for the next four months. And it seems nice to try to have one vehicle do it all but let's face it, almost everybody who isn't an urban apartment dweller has multiple vehicles anyway, so the easy way (?) is to have a local ev and a long distance ICE.

I agree that generator systems' built-in inefficiencies make them unattractive. Put that ICE power straight to the road.

I'd like to be able to add ICE power to the wheel(s) of an ev via removeable unit, not necessarily a trailer. How to best do that is a good question. P.S. But then have to lug all that heavy, presumably useless ev equipment with on the road trips? Bleah. Completely swap out ev/ice? Doable, but more effort than it's worth? Leave the ev stuff but remove the heavy and space-consuming battery pack to insert the ICE? Hmmmm

Would you have to buy two licenses, one for the car and one for the trailer?
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