Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. A couple of years ago, I wrote an article titled “We May Have Been Wrong To Mock GM’s Big Battery Approach To Electric Trucks.” Back then, it was incredibly easy to point and laugh at vehicles like the Hummer EV ... [continued]
Our first trailer got about 1.0 miles/kWh towing at 65 mph (our ABRP reference figure). When we swapped to the 7,000-pound inTech, our efficiency dropped down to 0.9 miles/kWh. If you are doing the math at home, 0.9 miles/kWh means a 130 kWh battery pack (the standard “extended range” packs you find in trucks like the F-150 Lightning or Rivian R1T) will give you about 117 miles of total range from 100% to completely dead. A Tesla Cybertruck’s 123 kWh battery does a few miles less.
But out in the real world, you never drive from 100% to 0%.
If you had read the article, you’d also have second hand experience that 80 miles is the appropriate real-world range for towing RVs.
How many miles per kwh do you get while towing at highways speeds, and how big is your battery? The article has reported that experience, so feel free to counter with your numbers, but saying “nuh uh” doesn’t contribute to the discussion.
From the article:
If you had read the article, you’d also have second hand experience that 80 miles is the appropriate real-world range for towing RVs.
That is absolutely incorrect. I have towed 9,000lbs numerous times and yielded 225-250mi of range.
I will agree that the Ford Lightning and Cybertruck are garbage though.
If you had read my comment, you’d know that I have lived this experience, and no, it isn’t.
How many miles per kwh do you get while towing at highways speeds, and how big is your battery? The article has reported that experience, so feel free to counter with your numbers, but saying “nuh uh” doesn’t contribute to the discussion.
So their experience counts but mine doesn’t?
Yes, if they describe their numbers but you refuse to describe yours.
I’ve already described mine above. If you choose to just ignore that, that’s your problem.