![]() Lastly, there are also folks who have built generator and pusher trailers, with the idea that you just hook it up to your electric vehicle to extend the range as needed for long trips. That’s my master plan for a truck project of mine. To create an extended-range EV (similar in concept to the Volt) you would need a generator powerful enough to continuously produce the amount of electric energy to power your truck down the road.Īnother option would be to build some sort of a hybrid that mechanically gets power from an engine to the road as well as power from an electric motor. I have another friend who built an electric pickup truck who HAS charged it from a generator in the bed, but that was while stopped. It was a good proof of concept, although the generator I was using was never able to run at full power. I did have some good results of experimentally running my Electro-Metro as a hybrid for a while. Even the Tesla Model S, possibly the greatest electric car ever made, is only designed to go 200-300 miles per charge. Certainly an EV is NOT designed to go 800 miles per day. The the gas tank and exhaust system removed, there’s plenty of space under the bed for batteries. ![]() ![]() Light trucks, such as Ford Rangers, Chevy S10s and older import trucks all make great conversions. ![]() It’s always going to be a bit of a project, even if you buy your motor, controller, and charger all from the same place. Every conversion is different, and there is no product out there that you simply “drop-in” to convert a gas vehicle to electric.
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