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Post your Travel trailer that you tow with your Y
- Thread starter Wennfred
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I’m in the process of restoring an old canned ham (58 Stanley) to tow with the MY. How was the experience with the Shasta? Do you have the factory tow package?
ElectroCat
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Blue Model Y is on order for late March, trailer is ready for the next trip.
Uncle Paul
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That looks like a great package for being towed by a Tesla. Light and aerodynamic then towing but large and lots of windows when camping.
salukidiaz
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We picked up a Sunset Park Sun-Lite 16BH yesterday. Towed it home almost 200 miles with the Y through the hills of I-81 in Virginia. I took it slow at 55 mph for the whole trip and ended up with consumption in the 550 to 575 Wh/mi range (temp 70F, dry road, stiff crosswinds). The Y did an amazing job towing, was very stable, and had plenty of power to take the ups and downs through the hills with ease. For this trip it seemed like a plan of 1% of range per mile was a good estimate for my planning purposes that allowed me to arrive at the first charging stop and at home with around 20-ish percent remaining after starting out around 90%-ish (two legs at 80 to 90 miles each). This was by far my biggest concern as I really wasn't sure what the aerodynamic profile of this particular camper was going to do to range.
The crosswinds obviously hurt, but it's realistic.
I'm really looking forward to the trailer industry responding to the EV community and building trailers that have better aerodynamics. There's so much that can be done to clean them up. Making a better fairing for the AC unit is a good place to start.
ElectroCat
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Got the Blue Y
First road trip in mid May.
First road trip in mid May.
After seeing your alto, it lead me down the google rabbit hole and now I’m convinced I want one. Curious to know what your range is when towing
HyperionMark
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Good luck getting one in the next decade. I was going to get one until I figured out there was a 18 month waiting list.
Similar range hit towing the skis as everyone’s reporting?What trailer hitch ball mount did you go with? I got the Tow Smart hitch from Home Depot. When I tow my jet skis, the hitch is noisy because its loose.
dduffey
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Will be raising the ball mount 3/4" (from 0") and reducing tire diameter to level the trailer.
dduffey
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ElectroCat
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Gadget63
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ElectroCat
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No long trips yet, but over a 60km trip, usage was 305kWh per km
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