Will Your Next Tow Vehicle be Electric?
Trailer Life EV Article Interesting article on EV's as a tow vehicle
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fj12ryder wrote:Reisender wrote:Yeah, I know the feeling. :)fj12ryder wrote:Reisender wrote:Wow, 600 miles in 12 hours is bookin' it. Or were you referring to taking 12 hours for the return trip of 295 miles alone? That's not so hot: 295 miles in 12 hours pretty much sucks. A person should be able to cover 500 miles in around 10 hours, give or take.
Well, you won’t go 500 miles towing in any current electric vehicle, or least not in a comparable time to ice towing. But just doing a 500 mile day in an EV is easy, and in the same time as an ice vehicle. Our longest routine travel days right now are exactly 476 Km from home to hotel. But we have done the return trip in one long 12 hour day including 2 hours of business at the opposite end. So whatever 952 km
is in miles. I hate long days like this. Autopilot makes the drive easier though. I prefer no more than 9 hours at a time on the road, and some where in there a lunch break and a couple of coffee/pee/chihuahua breaks.
Just not sure if I'm confused here. :)
No. It’s about 5 hours each direction with stops. But we generally have about 1 to 2 hours of business at the other end so it can be a 12 hour day. Too long for me. Like I say. If we are doing a multi day trip we try to keep it to a 9 hour travel day which for us seems to be around 800 km or so depending on speed limits etc. I swear to god I had a bigger bladder when I was younger. :)
That is really impressive: 600 miles in 10 hours with stops. You must be averaging 65 mph.
It’s actually a pretty fast stretch of road. The speed limit used to be 120 km and everyone went 135. This year we came back from California and the speed limit was 110 km...so every one goes 125 LOL. We take it easy though. Set autopilot at about 115 kmh. We usually bring lunch so maybe 15 minutes. There is a Supercharger halfway so we eat lunch there. Maybe one other quick pee break at at the next Supercharger. Nice trip thru the mountains but a lot more enjoyable if staying the night. Super relaxed. A little time for a hike etc. But with Covid it’s best to just press. Anyway. Won’t be doing that trip anymore this year. Assuming borders are open in October next road trip with her Tesla is SoCal. 2350 km in 3 days so actually not a rushed schedule. If we do the coastal route we’ll take a week but we’ll have to see how this Covid thing goes. Ugh.
Probably about half (maybe a little less) is Freeway. EG on ramps and off ramps so no roadside highway access. Kinda cool in a Tesla with FSD because under freeway conditions the car looks after all passing of slower traffic as well. If it comes up behind a slower vehicle in the right lane it signals, moves left, passes the vehicle and then back into the right lane. We always keep a hand on the wheel just in case (and it prompts you otherwise) but pretty stress free driveing as it does all the steering and distance keeping as well. A little unnerving the first few times that signal comes on by itself but I haven’t seen it make a stupid decision...yet... so we are starting to gain a little confidence in it. Still kinda freaky. :). LOL.
