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Originally Posted by Chance
I love reasonable challenges, but at same time think we are still far from having vehicles that average buyers will buy to tow camping trailers like those built today.
As an example, if a motorhome like yours on an E-350 chassis was built with a 4-cylinder heavy duty engine (half of the new 7.3L V8), nobody would buy it because it would be considered underpowered. Yet with 200 HP and over 600-mile driving range, I could get to any destination much faster than with electric motorhomes or EVs towing trailers considering how often they have to charge. Your Axis could easily cruise at 60 MPH all day with less than 200 HP and get there in half the time.
Whether the goal is to save money or the environment, I see smaller motorhomes with smaller engines driven at slower speeds as a much more viable option today than battery-electric vehicles for camping, yet most buyers won’t go that route.
Electric campers are very interesting to discuss from a technical standpoint, but I honestly don’t see large electric pickups towing 15,000-pound 5ers down the Interstates in near future. I doubt it’ll happen in my lifetime.
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Oh yeah without a big breakthough in battery density it isn't going to happen.
I still think the best bet is that F-150 hybrid powertrain, with a slightly larger battery. You get your smaller engine (a V-6 3.5L in this instance instead of a 4 cylinder--still the 3.5L is 1/2 (approx) the displacement of that V-8) and eliminate the generator.
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