Let's talk about the Range Extender. AKA the reason many customers are buying a Scout. From my research on the topic of what EPA considers a 'range extender', this EPA classification only applies when a vehicle's gas-powered range does not exceed its electric-powered range. This is the reason the BMW i3 fuel tank on the Rex was software-limited to 1.9 gallons to not break this (stupid) rule. You could easily tune to remove this limitation as well as make the Rex available under 80% charge (factory it would only be available under 6%)
I'm hoping the Scout Harvester will be easily tunable to give some of these optional benefits to the consumer as well. I've owned VW GTI's that were highly configurable via OBD2 and would like to think VW will be lending some software to the Scout, although I'm not sure if that's a given.
What are others' thoughts on this, do you agree/disagree on this being important? Does anyone else care about this? In the case of the BMW i3, it made the difference between the car being an in-city commuter only, and it being easily driveable cross-country. I want to be able to drive a full day trip without the use of any chargers if I so choose.
I'm hoping the Scout Harvester will be easily tunable to give some of these optional benefits to the consumer as well. I've owned VW GTI's that were highly configurable via OBD2 and would like to think VW will be lending some software to the Scout, although I'm not sure if that's a given.
What are others' thoughts on this, do you agree/disagree on this being important? Does anyone else care about this? In the case of the BMW i3, it made the difference between the car being an in-city commuter only, and it being easily driveable cross-country. I want to be able to drive a full day trip without the use of any chargers if I so choose.