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Originally Posted by The Gritz Carlton
Just remember Newton's Theory of Relativity. You can't make any power source without sacrifice another power source. If you could pull a 40' trailer full of 12' high solar panels with a KIA, you may have something. It may not run but 30MPH but someone would be happy with it. They could "I told you so" for the rest of their lives.
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Not sure I follow this as what we're talking about is completely reasonable.
My Bolt carries with it 60kWh of battery storage and the Axis pulls it no differently than our Escape or the C-Max (its about the same weight as well).
A hybrid RV is going to have a smaller battery pack than that since hybrids only have enough storage for about 2x what is needed to accelerate (thus probably about 10kWh--the C-Max has about 7kWh and that all fits in the car so finding room in an RV for 10kWh is nothing). Also keep in mind that the fuel tank can be smaller due to the higher mpg the hybrid would get and a smaller engine.
Even better: If it is a series hybrid you can also throw out the transmission and drive shaft (just mount the electric motor(s) to the axle).
Also note: with all this battery power you'd also be throwing out the generator freeing up that space as well.
None of this is as unreasonable as a Kia towing 12' high solar panels.
The thing that makes all of this out of reach is the cost of all those batteries. That price is coming down, pretty quickly (Tesla Model 3 batteries will soon hit the magical $100/kWh range).
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