2001 BEV RXT-G  (AC Propulsion)
Battery Electric Vehicle
Range Extending Trailer - Generator
LongRanger -- Range Extender -- GenSet
Toyota Motor Corporation - Prototype
Stock configuration 42 MPG cross country series hybrid drive
Counter
--- ACP TMC Prototype Pictures below ---
An early photo of the
TMC prototype under
testing in CA.
2010.06 photos from
the Beata Electric
Motor Carrage
Collection.
ACP tzero & Long
Ranger II.  Note the
extra cooling opening
on the top/rear of the
shroud.
Trailer III, believed to
be currently in
operating somewhere
in Germany.
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Vehicle Description


RXT-G stands for Range Extending Trailer - Generator and has also been referred to
as the "LongRanger," "Range Extender," or "GenSet."   This unit converts a BEV
(Battery Electric Vehicle) to a series hybrid for long distance & cross country travel.

The history of the Long Ranger includes four prototypes built between 1995 & 2001
for various applications.  To the best of our knowledge the first prototype carried a
smaller 250cc engine rather then the later 500cc 4 valve configuration.  There are
three known examples; one on the yellow tzero pictured below, a second on the tzero
pictured bleow in red, the last is the TMC prototype for the Rav4-EV pictured below in
white (and is the example held in our collection).

Owning to the BEVs "electric first" design, series hybrids are capable of greater fuel
economy when compared to standard OEM parallel hybrid drives; which, by
definition, rely on "ICE first" with an electric boost to ICE operations.  We believe BEV
series hybrids are the future and the next logical step to much greater fuel economy.

Additional Wikipedia data at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genset_trailer