I don’t have an EV but I do wonder what you would do if you run out of charge while on the road and you are mikes away from a charging station? Do you have to get your car towed or do they have some kind of AAA equivalent road side service where you can get recharged on the road?
I’ve discussed this rescue scenario with both SparkCharge and Ford about building F-150 PowerBoost rescue vehicles that could hold 8 Roadie batteries and two SparkCharge Level 2+ chargers in the bed. That would be great for AAA rescue of EVs that have run out of charge on the road, but so far I’ve heard nothing back from either of them. The weight and charging math of these batteries and chargers works perfectly, so it could be as simple as loading up to 8 Roadie batteries and 2 SparkCharge chargers in the truck bed and building a power distro box from the 30-amp 120/240-volt twist-lock outlet in the bed of the F-150 PowerBoost truck. That should be able to recharge and keep the Roadie batteries fully charged between EV rescues. Read this: https://open.substack.com/pub/rvelectricity/p/ev-rescue-possibility?r=1txmtl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Great idea Mike! It does beg the question as to how many people are getting stuck out there with their EV running out of charge. I've heard that when you only have a few miles equivalent of charge left, the RV speed is restricted, I guess to allow you to get to a safe parking place. I'd love to hear more about this if someone knows. It would be great to know the actual statistics, or at least if such things are being tracked. Thanks again!
Hey Doug, we had a 2007 Honda Civic natural gas car. Our sales guy told us we had about 60 miles left when the low fuel. light came on. My wife ran out of fuel about 15 miles after the low fuel light came on. Called AAA & they had to tow it to a CNG station , so no they haven't figured out how to store GNG for that type of situation & I would bet it's not going to change for EV cars in the near future!
I don’t have an EV but I do wonder what you would do if you run out of charge while on the road and you are mikes away from a charging station? Do you have to get your car towed or do they have some kind of AAA equivalent road side service where you can get recharged on the road?
I’ve discussed this rescue scenario with both SparkCharge and Ford about building F-150 PowerBoost rescue vehicles that could hold 8 Roadie batteries and two SparkCharge Level 2+ chargers in the bed. That would be great for AAA rescue of EVs that have run out of charge on the road, but so far I’ve heard nothing back from either of them. The weight and charging math of these batteries and chargers works perfectly, so it could be as simple as loading up to 8 Roadie batteries and 2 SparkCharge chargers in the truck bed and building a power distro box from the 30-amp 120/240-volt twist-lock outlet in the bed of the F-150 PowerBoost truck. That should be able to recharge and keep the Roadie batteries fully charged between EV rescues. Read this: https://open.substack.com/pub/rvelectricity/p/ev-rescue-possibility?r=1txmtl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Great idea Mike! It does beg the question as to how many people are getting stuck out there with their EV running out of charge. I've heard that when you only have a few miles equivalent of charge left, the RV speed is restricted, I guess to allow you to get to a safe parking place. I'd love to hear more about this if someone knows. It would be great to know the actual statistics, or at least if such things are being tracked. Thanks again!
Hey Doug, we had a 2007 Honda Civic natural gas car. Our sales guy told us we had about 60 miles left when the low fuel. light came on. My wife ran out of fuel about 15 miles after the low fuel light came on. Called AAA & they had to tow it to a CNG station , so no they haven't figured out how to store GNG for that type of situation & I would bet it's not going to change for EV cars in the near future!
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