EXTRA BATTERIES FOR THE FRUNK?

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I believe you cannot charge while driving.

Some generators won't charge an EV. Yes, campgrounds that have a 14-50 outlet can work. Or, you can rig a setup where, with the proper charger that has the ability to lower the amps, can charge off a more common 30 amp circuit.

Remember that the truck's ER battery is 131kW. If you show up somewhere with say 10%, and want to charge it up, that's 118kW in the truck, or 139 from a generator / outlet. If you use the travel charger at 30amps, that's about 20 hours of a generator droning on and on to charge back up. But, in a campground with a 14-50 50amp circuit, no droning noise.

Correct. There is no way to charge while driving.

The main point here is that anyone worried about running out of power has has options, even in extreme cases like driving into remote areas where there are no chargers.

The simplest one is finding a campsite with a 220v RV power tap. They tend to be in remote areas because RV drivers tend to roam all over the place and need a place each night. That's the simplest way to get an overnight charge.

Generators or portable battery packs are just a safety net to give yourself some power to find a real outlet. Portable power packs are super expensive... $2K buys you about 2kW. That's only useful if you somehow run out of power and need to go a few miles to a real outlet.

The key here is 99.99% of the time, you don't need anything. You just charge as needed, but people who worry about running out of power can get creative.

Ford even patented a way to charge an EV while being towed. That's pretty interesting. It's not quite "free energy". The tow truck would feel the drag and need to work much harder (as if pulling a 7000 truck wasn't enough), but you'd get power by the time you arrived at the charger. A YouTuber did it once with a Tesla, so it's possible.

In Ford's patent application, they didn't use a tow truck because of the lack of power, but they showed it being towed behind a massive 18 wheeler.

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