towing with ev6
Hi all, First, I know almost nada about towing. Kia has come out with the EV6 with an over 300 mile range. It has a towing capacity of 1600 KG (3527 lb). Share your thoughts?
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi all,
First, I know almost nada about towing.
Kia has come out with the EV6 with an over 300 mile range.
It has a towing capacity of 1600 KG (3527 lb).
Share your thoughts?
Lots of EV towing videos out there. The Fast Lane Truck has done a few. I'm pretty interested in EVs and try to look at them from a science-focused lens. (weird, right?) Bottom line- EVs are considerably more efficient than ICE vehicles when not towing. The downside of that is that a trailer takes exactly the same amount of energy to move it down the road regardless of what's pulling it. It seems counterintuitive, but the result ends up being that the efficiency of an EV while towing is hurt much more than a comparable ICE tow vehicle. Bottom line, figure that the EVs range while towing at capacity will be 1/3 that of its solo range. I've read and watched several EV towing tests that bear this out.
