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    Howy - Looking for 2025 Ramcharger Info, Stopping by...

    Readers: The nature of human adoption tends to follow something like: Visionaries, then leaders, the thundering masses, and finally the doubters and naysayers. Pick the topic and that process will tend to manifest itself. It what it is. Sometimes we even get posts based on poor data...
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    MB, I agree EV charging is an issue for those in appts, townhomes wo garages/driveways, and etc. Nor do I have much of an answer for today or even the short term. A knee jerk is public charging posts, sort of like parking meters, but people there are so many idiots and assholes today that...
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    HOA's = Shudder.. Certainly best of luck with them. Assuming you had a garage one could always install a garage outlet for an aircompressor, Clother dryer, etc, and then use same for charging the EV. 240V is 240v. I charged my Tesla on me 240V air compressor outlet for many months. Sure...
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    A few other thoughts. We know the gen-set is rated to 130KW, brief peaks to 190KW. 1) 130KW would be ~3700 rpm at 100% throttle 2) 190KW should they allow the engine to deliver same for a brief period it would be ~5500RPM (again at 100%) 3) All this is as we should expect, for once they...
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    Thank you gentlemen! Price - Indeed a concern! I don't recall at this moment how I did it, but I did some calculations on another forum and concluded RC should be similar to less expensive than an similar trim level REV. Batteries are expensive, an engine and gen-set not so much... Now if...
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    Ramcharger article

    Yes. And thus are doing no work. The moment they so much as twitch the work performed is universally called "power" be it measured in HP, KW, or etc.. Simple fact: The one that delivers the most HP will perform the most work each and every time. If that work is done too quickly one gears...
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    Howy - Looking for 2025 Ramcharger Info, Stopping by...

    I'm not going to bother to dig deep into most of the resulting comments from my intro, but I will say these things: 1) It's obvious who has real-life experience w/EV's and PHEV's and who is repeating stuff they heard and/or fear. 2) Doc and Atticus have well responded, and I don't see...
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    Ramcharger article

    At least one possible answer: Compare using HP. Torque can be both misleading and a tad meaningless, HP cannot as it's not subject to gearing. :)
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    Ignoring the nonsense statements from Stumpy, a few topics came up worthy of discussion. I offer: ".....Given electric torque is available from 0 RPM they could have made it 400hp and had plenty of capability. Unless the generator and battery setup is adding a thousand pounds to the curb...
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    Howy - Looking for 2025 Ramcharger Info, Stopping by...

    5000lbs, 400 miles, and it’s a boat? i suppose it depends on the boat, but as a general rule that’s not hard to tow. Something around 100hp should be reasonable power average, and that won’t be hard to meet. boss, what mpg average do you get now, and what with?
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    Howy - Looking for 2025 Ramcharger Info, Stopping by...

    mostly no, IMO. kill the battery and them start the engine. It will certainly have an EV only mode, and thats how one would use it around town and or local. As we all know, most daily use is well under 50 miles, so why not use cheap/clean (usually) electricity to meet that need. For...
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    Howy - Looking for 2025 Ramcharger Info, Stopping by...

    and therein lies a huge, apparently oft missed, key. It’s late and and I don’t have time now, but when we look at an NA pentastar running in the 2500-3000rpm range we can see a very efficient engine delivering lots of power to the bus and EDM’s. The batts can make up hills, passing, and etc...
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    Ramcharger or Revolution?

    Ramcharger will outsell REV by leaps and bounds. Heck, if they don't screw the pooch by second year it will outsell REV and Lightening. The only hope for EV truck sales (IMO of course) is the work truck/fleet market, and I've not seen anybody focus there yet, so... Of course the occasional...
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    I don't think they've released the type, but I too find it hard to believe they're converting to AC. For now I assume (and you know what they say) it'd DC. To be more clear, and let me apologize for not being more clear, the energy conversion of ICE to DC energy has no chance of generating...
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    2025 1500 RamCharger. Is it an EV?

    No sir that won't work. The conversion loss of ICE to generator, generator to battery, battery to DC and then to motor are just going to be worse than a normal (todays) drivetrain efficiency. Now if you can charge at work? Bingo. Of course in use this is reduced, the ICE>generator puts power...
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