Gas Powered Range Extender

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It's only going to run when you need to travel beyond the 150 mile battery range.

Maintenance intervals will be somewhat extended as the gas engine won't be running as often, but you will still need to do some time based maintenance, and you don't have a gearbox that needs maintenance.

Electric Components shouldn't have much maintenance. Overall it should not be more than a normal Combustion engine powered car.
 
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So, you would have the maintenance of a normal combustion engine plus that of the electric components. Would the extender be working all the time or just as you start to get low on electric power? Thanks for your responses.
Assumption so far is you might get to 70-80 miles on the EV then generator will kick on to start generating battery power to stay ahead of the power use. They haven’t nailed down the exact specifics as of yet
 
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