Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

Reisender wrote:


Hey Sam.

A lot will have to do with the trailer you choose. We helped a fellow install his brake control in his model Y tesla. He bought some raised off road trailer with a big air conditioner on the top. Maybe 4500 pounds ish. We warned him he would get probably half the range we got pulling our teardrop. Sure enough. He had major range problems. We get like two to three times the range. But we also tow at like 90 to 95 kph max and our trailer size is matched well to the car.

Like anything else compare apples to apples. If you intend to pull a 25 foot high 11 foot tall trailer at 110 kph find someone who pulls something similar and pick his brain. In our experience frontal load, height and speed are the big factors.

We had no problem crossing the country in our combo. Everyone has different needs and wants. But careful on drawing too many conclusions from these YouTube tow offs. There are lots of folks on the Facebook ev towing forums getting 200 to 300 kilometres of range with their F150 lightnings towing their smaller trailers. Right tool, right job etc.

Safe travels.

John.

John,

I'll be happy if it gets a range of 150 to 180 miles while towing as this is my normal bathroom-lunch breaks between campsites.

I'm also thinking of getting a better streamlined truck camper to get to a comfortable range.

Yah. Depending on what you choose i would think 200 miles will be easy with the cybertruck. Heck, my old GMC 2500 couldn't pull our old Golden Falcon 150 miles without a gas stop. :)

I'm not up on what trailers are aerodynamic. Ours is ok but not great. Most teardrop trailers are 7 feet wide. Ours is 7'6" so not the greatest behind our SUV. Meh, the extra width is nice though. Works for us.

We took this picture in your country last week. Close to Orville washington. HAAAAWWWTTT. I think the fahrenheit scale said something like 102 degrees. Glad we had power for the AC. Nice park. Right on orville lake.

Cheers.