towing with a Tesla

Is it a 10 minute video, because that’s how, long it took to drain the battery??

"Worst case we can do a 100 miles every three hours"

We tow a 21' Little Guy Max teardrop trailer with our Tesla Model YP. The trailer loaded is a little over the 3500 LB. tow rating. I have to say I love everything about this car, the best vehicle I have ever owned. Well, everything but one thing. The range! Towing on the interstate at 65 MPH we're lucky to get 100 miles on a full charge. But, the vast majority of our trips are weekend camping within two hours of the house. Maybe one stop at a supercharger and then charge at the campground. Also, I need to change my RV sig.

Interesting the different experiences people have with different trailers. We are in the middle of a long BC camping trip touring thru the Okanagan right now. We are seeing around 328 watt hours per kilometre so far on this trip. Headed up to Hedley today for a few days of old mine snooping, then on to manning park for a few days and then just outside of hope for one or two. It’s more mountainous driving. We’ll check it again tomorrow. We see north of 340 watts in the prairies where speeds are more steady. Surprisingly mountain driving in BC tends to be lower consumption but thats because the average speed tends to be lower.

Our trailer is only 18 feet but just looking at all the other medium sized SUV’s pulling trailers I would say it’s average sized for this size of suv. Lots of combos this size on the road here but that’s probably a reflection of the site size in a lot of the parks around here. We will be on Vancouver island within the week and the last time we were there we noticed quite a few EV RV combos. And they have been improving charging infrastructure there for the last year. It will be interesting to see the changes. I know a lot of the single charger sites are now dual charger. Hopefully they are continuing to add trailer friendly sites. Tesla is in the process of adding a couple more supercharger locations on the island but I don’t think they’ll be up and running when we are there. Maybe the port Alberni location.

Anyway. Here is us at the Kamloops supercharger. I think there are 8 chargers there but they separated one by about 15 metres so trailers can just kinda pull up alongside. Nice. Dump station there as well. It’s at a touristy booth thingy.

OMG this thread is off the charts funny!
Love it!

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
We are talking TOWING a travel trailer. This is a travel trailer forum. Not an electric car forum or a boat boat towing forum.

That's hilarious. Most of us have been on this forum for years, and there have been numerous discussions about all things towing, including EVs and boat boats. :)

Groover wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

time2roll wrote:
OK if a gallon is 34 kWh and a gas vehicle goes 10 mpg and the EV goes 30 to 50 miles on that same energy there must be a bit more math involved or some laws of physics are broken.

T&P wrote:
Electric motors are "around" twice as efficient as a gasoline engine

(I stated that above)

The math work and I have proved it several times on this very forum.

Oh BTW. Electric mileage drifts around much like mileage on gas diesel or coal or natural gas. How fast you go, how much weight you are towing, how tall the load is and about 20 other things make a big difference.

BTW, btw, the powers that be said they will not make a new battery for my plug in electric car, and they won't fix it even though it is under warranty. I will learn how much money I will receive this week.

Fun times for sure.

I get just under 4 miles per kwh in my Model Y which is over 130 miles on 34kwh. My son's Model 3 does about 10% better than that. I am going to say that based on my personal experience the math is off by a factor of roughly 3 for Teslas. Your unspecified brand may be quite different.

Pulling my 21' offshore fishing boat with the Y cuts my mileage roughly in half.

We are talking TOWING a travel trailer. This is a travel trailer forum. Not an electric car forum or a boat boat towing forum.

If you want me to show you the math again (while towing an average size travel trailer that is found in the US) I will be glad to do it; even though I have done it several times on this forum.

Here is a stark reminder of the true figures while towing a travel trailer.

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

time2roll wrote:
OK if a gallon is 34 kWh and a gas vehicle goes 10 mpg and the EV goes 30 to 50 miles on that same energy there must be a bit more math involved or some laws of physics are broken.

T&P wrote:
Electric motors are "around" twice as efficient as a gasoline engine

(I stated that above)

The math work and I have proved it several times on this very forum.

Oh BTW. Electric mileage drifts around much like mileage on gas diesel or coal or natural gas. How fast you go, how much weight you are towing, how tall the load is and about 20 other things make a big difference.

BTW, btw, the powers that be said they will not make a new battery for my plug in electric car, and they won't fix it even though it is under warranty. I will learn how much money I will receive this week.

Fun times for sure.

I get just under 4 miles per kwh in my Model Y which is over 130 miles on 34kwh. My son's Model 3 does about 10% better than that. I am going to say that based on my personal experience the math is off by a factor of roughly 3 for Teslas. Your unspecified brand may be quite different.

Pulling my 21' offshore fishing boat with the Y cuts my mileage roughly in half.

womps wrote:
Best selling car, not vehicle.

Tesla Y 267,200 World sales.
F-Series 170,377 US sales.

Anyone have first quarter world sales for F-Series?

Best selling car, not vehicle.