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AC is fairly efficient, by AC I mean cooling. Heating is another issue but if you bundle up and use the seat warmer - it is not so bad.So does the ac lower your range to half or a quarter of the normal range, I'm in Oklahoma, so I would really like to know?
Reading these posts, I wonder if the majority of folks have ever towed anything at all in real life.
Stop and go, crosswinds, traffic, they will take a serious toll on an electric truck, much more than a petrol engine, Tesla or not.
Lets not even talk about using the heat in cold weather while towing.
One could argue that towing will create more waste heat, that is more readily used by an EV (Only Tesla so far)Worse than a petrol truck? I think not, sir.
Under normal circumstances, EVs handle traffic and stop and go driving far better and much more efficiently than ICE vehicles, and I believe that will continue to be the case while towing.
We’ll have to see how much trailer braking they have to use to keep the combination stable, which will be energy lost in the towing EV that you don’t lose in other EVs - but that’s still going to be far better than the ICE that throws all the energy out the window every time.
Crosswinds will have the exact same percentage effect on both cars.
Heating in cold weather will be less of an issue on a towing EV, because it’s the same energy per unit time as for an EV that isn’t towing, and the towing EV is burning a lot more energy to, you know, tow big things, so the percentage impact of the heating will be much smaller.
I've been doing long roadtrips for a few years now originally in my X 90D (RIP due to deer) and now X 100D. I was surprised how much of a difference it makes. You can skip superchargers occasionally as the next one is 'close enough'. As well there is less range anxiety for you/passengers such as single digit SOCs, or winter driving, or driving at the speed limit +10 MPH. Extra battery matters.After traveling on a 25-27 hour trip in a Model Y from Louisiana to Colorado, the extra battery capacity isn't as necessary as some may believe. The main benefit is being able to charge at a higher rate for longer. The main goal would be to charge as fast as you can to get to the next charger.
I've been doing long roadtrips for a few years now originally in my X 90D (RIP due to deer) and now X 100D. I was surprised how much of a difference it makes. You can skip superchargers occasionally as the next one is 'close enough'. As well there is less range anxiety for you/passengers such as single digit SOCs, or winter driving, or driving at the speed limit +10 MPH. Extra battery matters.
unless they added two charging ports (one on each side)...A Cybertruck with a 250kWh pack on version 3 superchargers would be practical for occasional long distance towing. It would be somewhat painful if you tow more than 1-2x per year. The problem is that v3 superchargers aren't commonplace other than the new Canadian transcontinental route.
Towing on the legacy 150kW superchargers would be painfully slow even if the big pack can absorb 150kW from 0-80%.
Agreed. A pickup doing 90mph at 100F will easily use 500Wh/mile without a trailer. That's still 400 miles on a 200kWh pack though which would be amazing.
Boy, that could piss off a lot of people at busy SuCsunless they added two charging ports (one on each side)...
Boy, that could piss off a lot of people at busy SuCs
Note that I mentioned things besides speed as well.With your experience, I would to know how much time was saved on those trips. This is with the assumption that you have taken the same trips on both Xs. I have the dual motor cybertruck reserved & might change to the tri motor if worth the extra cost