Tesla X Towing Videos
This video was pretty interesting and showed some real life numbers. First Towing Video Mountain Towing I have no interest in purchasing a Tesla or any other type of Electric Vehicle as they ...
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ShinerBock wrote:Reisender wrote:
Well, if somebody runs out of power in an electric vehicle they are either a moron or can’t read their instrumentation. Tell the car where you are going. It will tell you if you are going to make it, if you need to go to a Supercharger, where the Supercharger is, if it is available etc etc etc. It’s not rocket science.
If you look at the video in the link I posted of them testing this car on flat ground, the vehicle was no where near accurate when towing. They were loosing a percent every mile and the actual range was much lower than than what it said when they started because it was dropping so fast. They had to turn off the A/C and reduce from 70 mph to 55 mph.
Although, that begs the question. How would the computer know its consumption when towing before you start your journey? They did not input the weight, aerodynamics of the trailer, or rolling resistance of the tires so how would the car know? It is easy to predict range with just the car since Tesla knows the drag coefficient of the car and all the other things effecting it range, but how does it know the trailer's specs?
Good question. I’ll do some snoopin. The ability to enter that kind of data would be kinda cool.
