VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle.

   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #11  
Nope. The last thing I want is being 30 miles from a paved road and having no juice to move the vehicle.
But people have no fear of their EV dying in the Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour?
Thats a far greater threat to public safety.
 
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   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #12  
But people have no fear that their EV will die in the Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour?
Thats a far greater threat to public safety.
You could say the same thing about running out of gas in the Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour. Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
 
   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #13  
You could say the same thing about running out of gas in the Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour. Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
OK lets compare adding 2 gallons of gas to an ICE car stuck in traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel, to trying to get a charging station to a EV car stuck in traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel???

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   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #14  
Can a Tesla even be towed with a tow strap?

I was in my bone stock 1930 Model coming back from a show.

One of the guys had a full hot rod Model A with a 350 Chevy and lots of chrome.

His fuel pump went out... busy SF Bay Bridge... I had a tow strap and I towed it 4 miles off the bridge.

Wish I had a camera... lots of laughs as people passed seeing a little old towing new...
 
   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #15  
But people have no fear of their EV dying in the Lincoln Tunnel during rush hour?
Thats a far greater threat to public safety.
Probably so. That urban world is something I don’t experience very often. I have had to walk out 12 miles on a logging road when the fuel pump quit on the truck. I think the urban people have access to chargers that we don’t have in the boonies. If I lived in an urban area and worked nearby, I would consider an EV, but it’s ridiculous to make an off road EV.
 
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   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #16  
I don't think a Tesla can be flat-towed.

Maybe this New Scout will have Warn Hubs to disengage if it ever needs to be towed out of the boondocks?
 
   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #18  
Can a Tesla even be towed with a tow strap?

I was in my bone stock 1930 Model coming back from a show.

One of the guys had a full hot rod Model A with a 350 Chevy and lots of chrome.

His fuel pump went out... busy SF Bay Bridge... I had a tow strap and I towed it 4 miles off the bridge.

Wish I had a camera... lots of laughs as people passed seeing a little old towing new...
Ev are significantly heavier than ice vehicles. In crash test ev pickup went through guardrail
 
   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #19  
OK lets compare adding 2 gallons of gas to an ICE car stuck in traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel, to trying to get a charging station to a EV car stuck in traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel???

:unsure:
If you don't have sense enough to watch your gauges then you get what you deserve. I get it, you don't like them. I don't like mandates designed to line somebody's pockets. Yet making up scenarios which start with somebody's stupidity is rather tedious.


I have had to walk out 12 miles on a logging road when the fuel pump quit on the truck
Been there. I've done a lot of repairs on the road over the years, before smartening up and running better vehicles. I once replaced the roll pin on the distributer of an F150 with a nail to get it out of the woods, and ran it thst way for over a year before selling it. Wheel bearings on a 4x4 Ranger in the woods, brakes on my Toyota in the parking lot of a motel in Canton NY... I pulled the thermostat on that same truck at 5:30 in the morning on the NY thruway.
Considering all of the places I worked back then and as many times as I broke down, it's a wonder that I was always within 30 miles of home when I had to get towed.
But it wasn't just older vehicles. I left home in my company truck and when I hit the highway the transmission shifted into second and puked right there on the side of the road. I'd never had a problem until then. Of course it was a Chevrolet with one of their disposable trannys.
 
   / VW To Resurrect the IH Scout as an Electric Vehicle. #20  
If you don't have sense enough to watch your gauges then you get what you deserve. I get it, you don't like them. I don't like mandates designed to line somebody's pockets. Yet making up scenarios which start with somebody's stupidity is rather tedious.

No,,,, I think we will get what we deserve. In the Lincoln Tunnel example, the traffic will be blocked for all of us.
It’s not “tedious”. Blocked traffic in a tunnel is a life and death scenarios that must be dealt with.

 
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