BCSnob wrote:
My TV has a 26gal tank; we get ~7mpg towing a 7k trailer on hilly terrain below 3000’. I wonder just how bad the Rivian would look compared to my rig running that route? The Rivian could run it faster than I since it has no worries about overheating.
We chose to stay at hotels instead of pulling the trailer up and over going out to Carbondale CO a couple years ago.
Yep. With our 3/4 ton GMC we would have been in the right hand lane, foot TO THE FLOOR and watching the temperature gauge and every body passing us while we got 5 mpg. Then on the other side of the hill we would have been modulating the brakes and modulating gearing as we went down the other side.
That Ram half ton following empty with no trailer couldn’t even keep up to the Rivian hauling 8800 pounds up the hill. And remember, that was the medium range Rivian. They are not producing long range Rivians until next year.
