On 10/30/18 7:31 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
Towing a simple 4'x4' garden trailer behind my priius drops MPG from 55 to 40. A huge drop.
Very oddly, towing a small trailer with an imiev seems to have very little effect. The imiev range is 60-65 miles. When I towed 20+20 miles, I was worried about having sufficient range. But, I got home with about 15 miles remaining. So, the towing cost only about 10%. One way was empty, the other with about 300 pounds of stuff. Trailer is a Harbor Freight type flatbed, about 200 pounds with very low profile. In that test, the load was also very low, lumber stacked less than 1' high.
Towing a ~1000 pound teardrop with a Tesla costs 20-30%. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
