Weight vs frontal area
Recently I rented a 24 ft. 3500 lb. dry weight RV, to see what it would be like to tow. I figured the loaded weight to be close to 5000 lbs. My truck handled the weight okay but the 200 horse V 6...
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wintersun wrote:
At 60 MPH the air resistance is 4 times what it is at 60 MPH.........
..... and if you are going 70 MPH and have a 20 MPH headwind your gas mileage is going to be very poor. Drag and turbulence also increase the power needed to move any object and it would be difficult to come up with a better shape to maximize both turbulence and drag than a pickup pulling a square trailer. For a good shape look at a Prius. .
I think you have a typo in that first part friend, I think the second '60' should be '30'.
