tiburonh
Well-known member
A common question across this forum is whether or not the REx is going to be worth the extra price in the
US. Some here have speculated that -- because in the US the REx will be limited to only turn on when the battery is nearly spent -- driving with the REx on will result in the kind of scary/dangerous underperformance that the infamous Telegraph reviewer encountered. I.e., because the REx can seemingly only maintain the charge, not add to the charge, the car will go into some sort of self protect mode and will refuse to go more than 45 miles an hour up a hill, will disallow the use of the heater, etc., etc.
Because the REx is not available yet in the US (I think all the test drive models have been the BEV), no one in the US has been able to prove or disprove this speculation.
So, my request to one of our (lucky!) REx-owning friends in Europe is, would you be willing to drive your car until your battery is nearly spent and only then turn on the REx and then drive for a good long distance and time on the REx, over a variety of conditions, and report to us how things went?
Thanks in advance for even thinking about this.
US. Some here have speculated that -- because in the US the REx will be limited to only turn on when the battery is nearly spent -- driving with the REx on will result in the kind of scary/dangerous underperformance that the infamous Telegraph reviewer encountered. I.e., because the REx can seemingly only maintain the charge, not add to the charge, the car will go into some sort of self protect mode and will refuse to go more than 45 miles an hour up a hill, will disallow the use of the heater, etc., etc.
Because the REx is not available yet in the US (I think all the test drive models have been the BEV), no one in the US has been able to prove or disprove this speculation.
So, my request to one of our (lucky!) REx-owning friends in Europe is, would you be willing to drive your car until your battery is nearly spent and only then turn on the REx and then drive for a good long distance and time on the REx, over a variety of conditions, and report to us how things went?
Thanks in advance for even thinking about this.