Flat Towing Aftermarket Kit

[BigB]

This has been discussed at length and now that the vehicle is in production, I would like to make an aftermarket kit to make it flat towable behind a Motorhome and Possibly Regenerative Charging while Towing.

It would be an EV First. Never Been Done.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

While flat towing sounds interesting, the regenerative charging part has always struck me as contradictory. Wouldn't it cause a significant increase of load on the towing vehicle? How would the charging be controlled, especially once the battery is fully charged? And wouldn't it be cheaper to use a charging station?

But hey, if you can figure it out, I'm sure there would be a market for the innovation.

 

[DinoLord]

Ok

 

[ElectricShitbox]

You'll need different CV shafts and hub assemblies with lockers. You might be able to repurpose something from the front end of a 4wd truck that has manual disconnects, but definitely some custom fabrication involved.

 

[swami37]

Just get a trailer.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Basically need to figure out a way to disconnect the drive wheels from the motor how that's done idk

 

[EV Trek]

Slate says not to flat tow because it can overcharge the battery and damage the drivetrain.
Only way that would work I think is if you could put electric operated locking hubs that would automatically disconnect the axels when the battery approached 100% when in dingy mode.

 

[Luxrage]

They do sell free-wheeling hub kits for modern four wheel drives to improve fuel economy and bypassing some of the more failure prone automatic systems, I wonder if some pioneering individual would attempt to slap a set on the Slate? I'm sure the hub design is probably proprietary to the Slate, but one can dream.

https://www.dynatrac.com/collections/dodge-truck-free-spin™-kits

The biggest issue I could think of is, at least on the older 4WD systems I came across, it usually involved locking/unlocking the hubs and then moving the truck a bit to finish the engage/disengagement. I guess you could do that AFTER hooking up to the RV.

 

[Ere]

This has been discussed at length and now that the vehicle is in production, I would like to make an aftermarket kit to make it flat towable behind a Motorhome and Possibly Regenerative Charging while Towing.

It would be an EV First. Never Been Done.

So darn funny.

 

[BigB]

They do sell free-wheeling hub kits for modern four wheel drives to improve fuel economy and bypassing some of the more failure prone automatic systems, I wonder if some pioneering individual would attempt to slap a set on the Slate? I'm sure the hub design is probably proprietary to the Slate, but one can dream.

https://www.dynatrac.com/collections/dodge-truck-free-spin™-kits

The biggest issue I could think of is, at least on the older 4WD systems I came across, it usually involved locking/unlocking the hubs and then moving the truck a bit to finish the engage/disengagement. I guess you could do that AFTER hooking up to the RV.

That is my exact thought. I contacted Blue Ox who is the company I use to flat toe my Nissan truck and the Patriot 3 braking system. If the rear wheels had a disconnect on the Slate it would be an easy add on/modification