Nissan Will Introduce An EV With Range Extender Next Year
Had not seen this posted yet. Interesting development and I understand their rationale.
Had not seen this posted yet. Interesting development and I understand their rationale.
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new Nissan EV with range extender in development
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Breezy
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Very interesting. I had missed that. Thanks for posting.
(Before someone else says it, yes, it's a plug-in series hybrid. Outside of TMC we call them EVs with range extenders. :smile
(Before someone else says it, yes, it's a plug-in series hybrid. Outside of TMC we call them EVs with range extenders. :smile
stopcrazypp
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Unlike GM, Nissan does insist on using accurate terminology.Very interesting. I had missed that. Thanks for posting.
(Before someone else says it, yes, it's a plug-in series hybrid. Outside of TMC we call them EVs with range extenders. :smile
Here's what Yoshi Shimoida, Nissan’s deputy general manager for electric car engineering says in announcing this new system: "It’s something like that [range extender]. But we call it a series hybrid."
Breezy
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mknox
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I like "range extender". It's easy to understand for the layperson and accurately portrays an electrically powered car with a mechanism (ICE/generator) to extend it's range. I know people who couldn't tell you how a hybrid car works, let alone comprehend "series-hybrid".
green1
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Any time I talk to a lay person about an EV with a Range extender they always assume it has an "extra" battery. Not one of them has ever assume a range extender was a gas engine, when I point it out they ask "isn't that what a hybrid is?" which, amazingly enough, is correct!
I don't think you give lay people enough credit, they know what a hybrid is.
phigment
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The "Hybrid" can include many types of system. It could be a propane/gas hybrid.
Many of the electric/gas hybrids will be able to drive the wheels directly. A series hybrid will use the ICE to power the electrical drive unit. In this way you can focus on making the ICE efficient for electrical power generation.
mknox
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That seems like an odd assumption to make, but maybe the parallel are those little battery pack boosters you can get to top up your cell phone. The response I typically get is "oh, you mean like the Volt".
The first gen Volt had both a series and a parallel hybrid mode. The latter more efficient on the highway. The gen 2 Volt dispensed with series hybrid mode. When the ICE is running, there are three parallel hybrid configurations.
The article says Nissan will only be using a series hybrid configuration - ala the i3. It will be interesting to see what the mpg is. Also with the Leaf around, I doubt Nissan needs any ZEV credits. So I would guess they won't be exploiting the "gas range = electric range" loophole that the i3 exploits with its tiny gas tank.
JohnSnowNW
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Personally, I don't like the term "range extender" when that range extension is generally 3x-4x farther than the vehicle's AER, and the AER is less than the most limited BEV on the market.
green1
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Yes, exactly, they think "like the volt" only they don't realise that the volt isn't a pure EV after all, GM spent years advertising the volt as an EV even long before it was released, they've never bragged about it's ICE
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