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Originally Posted by kypez
You'll never really run it on EV only mode. As I discussed earlier when comparing to the Chinese utes that use electric motors instead of drive by ICE, the Ranger will have only 75kw available to drive the car which will be painfully slow. Maybe when it's cruising but off the line, it would just be awful
That 45 kms is just marketing spin.
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Hey kypez, I thing it depends a lot on the use case. Back when I was doing the daily commute into work, back and forth along Gympie Rd in bumper to bumper traffic, my Outlander PHEV would happily shuffle along at times without ever troubling the ICE the entire trip. That was a 40 km round trip from home to work and back. And there was heaps of Prado, Hilux, Ranger, and the odd Everest in the office car park that I suspect were doing similar runs.
Another use case that might tilt the maths is that the V2L makes quite a bit of 12V auxiliary kit for camping redundant. For example, in this
YouTube video, the owner dropped $13,757 putting in solar cells on the roof, auxiliary batteries, and a 240V inverter. All for a measly 4.8 kWh of capacity. Probably took 100 kg out of the load carrying capacity as well, and lost quite a bit of cargo space as well.
Instead of putting that money towards 12V auxiliary power supply, that could be used to offset the additional cost of the Ranger PHEV purchase.
Sure, $100K for a Ranger PHEV is a lot of money ... but if there are customers willing to pay, then why not tap that market?