towing with a Tesla
Hi all, https://youtu.be/FX5lzqzZ2Do a ten minute video.
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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.
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.
