Tactical Vehicle Electrification Kits or TVEKs for Army Used.....
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HYBRID OPTIONS
Sometime before September 2023, the Army plans to begin testing the new eLRV or Electric Light Reconnaissance Vehicle. In the meantime though, the Army is converting many of its vehicles to hybrid through the addition of Tactical Vehicle Electrification Kits or TVEKs. It will still have the existing fossil fuel powerplant, along with an onboard electric producing unit. They are estimating a fuel consumption drop of at least 25% by being able to use electric power part of the time. Another feature that helps reduced the use of fossil fuel is what many new cars have today – anti-idle where the engine shuts off when stopped. ( clearancejobs)
......The US Army has a series of hybrid electric vehicle testing events scheduled for next year as it seeks to take advantage of the operational and environmental promise of the green technology.While the service has been testing a hybrid-electric Bradley Fighting Vehicle this year, the Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office has contracts in place to integrate hybrid-electric technology on to a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle.
.....The hybrid Humvee OTAs, awarded to Gale Banks Engineering in Azusa, Calif. and Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich., run for 18 months. RCCTO said that testing will begin in September 2023 and finish in December next year.
AM General, the maker of the Humvee, is also expected to announce its own hybrid electric Humvee at some point this year, specifically targeting National Guard units.
“If any vehicle fleet in the US Army should be electrified in some fashion first, I think it should be the Humvee,” AM General CEO James Cannon told Breaking Defense in June. (breaking defense)