Garrett, don't be so quick to harshly judge VW and Winnebago. There is
no free lunch, and no free electricity, either. Batteries need to be
charged, and that takes fuel. Use great batteries (and maybe even an
extra alternator as that website shows) and maybe you can run your
cabin air conditioning system on electricity alone, but is that more
efficient? Maybe not. Rarely is burning gas to charge batteries to
then power devices more efficient than just burning gas and avoiding
the conversion losses. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but without more
information it's premature to slam VW and/or Winnebago.
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--- In ev_update@..., "Garrett" <garrett.elists@...> wrote:
David Richoux wrote:
For those with a Coach Battery - EVC and others, I found this on the
Yahoo Sprinter list yesterday. <snip>
This was facinating and quite informative. The post and the included
URL cited sheds a LOT of clarity and light on the subjet.
Here is the URL again:
It makes me wonder WHY this stuff wasn't figured out at the level of
the factory engineering (i.e. Winnebago, VW, etc.)? Why should the
consumer have to go through this kind of re-engineering just to bring
the product (EVC, Sprinter, etc.) up to minimum standard?
Thanks for swiping and re-posting this piece, David. It also makes me
wonder if I should also be monitoring the Sprinter list!? ;)
Garrett
1999 EVC, "DolphinJazz"
2002 EVC, "Serenity"
