I wave to everyone out in the country and small towns around here. Less likely to wave to someone in a Jeep though as they don’t understand, dang city slickers.
I can appreciate what your concerns are and I’m not certain of the answers, just trying to put some ideas out there.
Other than being green, I can think of the ability to have an occasional use vehicle that you don’t have to wrench on between 4 wheeling trips. When my family was more into 4...
I’ll take a 2 door manual FX4 Platinum in green with tan leather (want the cooled seats otherwise could settle for lower package). My offer is $37k. Thanks, take my money now.
I did see the towing video a while back, if I recall correctly, the towing completely destroyed the range.
The other thing to consider with off-roading and fluctuating speeds is regenerative braking. It doesn’t give all your range back but I would think it would help vs high speed highway runs.
What you’re saying about steady state is true, increases efficiency. I still think overall speed is a significant factor in efficiency. I haven’t seen that video before, I’ll have to take a look at it.
I’ve thought about a small trailer as well, I use my F250 to do truck stuff on occasion but I’ve been trying to decide if I could just use a small trailer instead for the couple times a month I need to.
I don’t have any calculations readily available to back this up but my theory is that the battery would actually hold up pretty well during the off-roading, even some hill climbs. It’s speed that is your highest battery consumption. Most off-roading is at slow speeds so your battery life should...
I’m thinking two door. My plan for extended trips would be roof rack and/or receiver hitch mounted cargo carrier. Between those two things you can make up for lack of interior space when you need it but still get 2 door awesomeness all the time and advantage of smaller rig when you don’t need to...
I was out of cell service all day and I miss this excitement! Yay for reveal date! Unfortunately it’s on my wife’s birthday so I’m not sure she’ll let me watch or drool over the news... gotta figure out a way to get her preoccupied for a bit if the reveal is in the evening...