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by floxy 976 days ago
As long as your EVs have batteries, seems like you should be OK, as long as they're not all at 10% of charge. How many miles does an ambulance, fire truck, or police car put on in a week? What length of power outage are you guarding against? Weeks long?
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collinc777 976 days ago
The range of these larger vehicles is currently ~100 mi. Most operators charge them once a day.
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floxy 976 days ago
Anyone know where to find the range specs for the Rivian fleet vehicles/vans? On the Rivian website, the RT1 and RS1 have advertised models with ranges varying from 260 to 410 miles.

https://rivian.com/r1s#specs

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Robotbeat 976 days ago
That’s the real problem. Undersized (“rIgHtSiZeD”) batteries. Consumer pure BEVs didn’t take off until >200 mile EVs became available.
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rnk 976 days ago
No, the range is not 100 miles. Even 10,000 pound vehicles can go 300 miles these days, like a hummer.
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RandallBrown 976 days ago
Rivian is 150 miles. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/14/what-its-like-to-deliver-for....

Ford is 100-126 https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/e-transit/

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wise_young_man 976 days ago
The Rivian one was designed for Amazon specs. The Ford one is half the cost of a Rivian R1T. This is simply price economics. Amazon wanted to maximize space for packages, not batteries. They have charges at their warehouses and these are charged likely at night for off peak rates.

If we are talking about just an ambulance, the range could get higher, but there are diminishing returns eventually for a giant square so it probably needs an aerodynamic redesign.

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collinc777 976 days ago
Every EV fleet i've talked to placed the range at <= 100 mi.
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rnk 976 days ago
I see I misunderstood the question & context. The rivian delivery van is about 100 miles apparently, but that's only because the customer, amazon, gave them specs to meet. All they have to do is add more batteries to get more range. I could pull the rivian ev delivery truck on a trailer behind my r1t and get 150 miles easy, and at slow city speeds probably more. My truck probably cost a good bit more than a delivery van, but has better specs.

I thought the question wasn't about the delivery vehicle, I thought it was asking about rivians in general. There's nothing limiting that range inherently, it doesn't have the greatest aerodynamics, but the goal is carry all those packages.

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