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Look carefully at my log published earlier. At odometer reading 104028 was where I refueled at Bloomington (40 miles west of Indianapolis) where I hitched up the boat. On this leg I had a fuel consumption of 16.83 mpg - not towing. The next fill up at 104334 was the first refuel while towing and...

I left Warrenton at 03.30 am on Friday 16th April. Arrived in Bloomington Indiana at 2.30 pm same day. Did the paperwork, hooked up the boat and headed back home. Slept at some Best Western and was back home in Warrenton the next day at 3pm. About 1300 mile round trip. This is all like 2 weeks...

Crissa, the road from Cincinnati to Indianapolis is flat level freeway for ever. I drove one way not towing and the other way towing at very similar speeds. Not towing I got a fuel consumption of 16.82 mpg. Towing I got 14.43 mpg. Same road, similar speeds and similar conditions. That is a...

The actual real world figures show that there is only about a 15% increase in fuel consumption on my old 5.4L V8 2003 F150. I put the address into my Model 3 and let it plan my route. Warrenton (VA) to Bloomington Indiana is about 630 miles according to the Tesla. Recharge at La Vale MD - 30...

308miles driven and Drive 308 miles and use 17.672 gals gas = 17.4287 MPG say 17.43 Which part of this simple calculation is giving you problems???

When I started my trip the tank was pretty low and I put in 27.2 gal gas On the trip I never put in more than 21 gal - being conservative & not risk running out. Notwithstanding, GasHog always got over 300 miles before I had to refill. 140 miles range is simply NBGAA! Remember we are doing the...

Do the maths. Add 17.43 mpg & 16.83 mpg & divide by 2 (average unloaded consumption) and you get an average non towing consumption of 17.13 mpg (not 18!) Now take the 2 towing consumptions and add them together & divide by 2 and you get an average towing consumption of 13.88 mpg. The difference...

The Supercharger at Spotsylvania Courthouse near Fredericksburg. I now looked at the map again and I think I was being very optimistic to say its a detour of "only" 25 miles. I think its a lot worse. So look at the map travelling from Warrenton VA to the State Park at Lake Anna. Spotsylvania is...

OK by happy coincidence I can give you exact figures. My F150 Lariat is a 2003 model, real old tech with a huge thirsty 5.4L V8. Within our family she is known as GAS-HOG! She has just north of 103000 miles on the clock. A few weeks ago I drove Gas-hog up to Indianapolis to collect a boat I had...

I have just fitted a tow bar on my Model 3 dm. I fish at Lake Anna which is 65 miles from my house in Warrenton VA. There is no supercharger on route so I need to make about a 25 mile detour to get to a supercharger. I have an F150 which I can use to tow with but I love my Model 3 as it is such...

My boat, my caravan, my wife's horsebox, my race car and my work utility trailer.

I am surprised that the EVs poor towing performance is not listed as a reason for returning to ICE. I must agree that if I didn't have at home 240V charging I would not want to own an EV.

Interesting that the inability or inefficiency of EVs as tow vehicles does not feature as a reason for going back to ICE.

I have been monitoring You Tube videos on Teslas towing and whilst they have all the power in the world to actually tow, their range goes out the door. Power consumption goes north of 700w/mile resulting in the effective range being reduced down to around 1/3 of the non-towing range. They are...

Thank you for an excellent well researched article. I'm no hunter or much of a gun slinger so I ask this question more out of ignorance and real curiosity. Surely, even if a high velocity bullet pernitrates a Cybertruck's skin it will have lost a considerable amount of its energy and suppose it...

I am prepared to pay 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollar. Any takers?

My 2 cents worth - My guess is you are not more than 20,000. Middle of 2022.

I ordered on about 7th January 2020 - trimotor with FSD, USA order. It seems with order # RN113210631 I am about 466,507 on the list! However they said they are doing 3 motor first so that means all the single motor orders can be moved behind me. What about the orders placed in front of me from...

GM invested sweet b-all! They got given the share of Nikola free, gratis and for nothing! Just for legitimizing Nikola by undertaking to supply the tech and everything other than the silhouette of a truck called a Badger. What's more Nikola still pay GM nearly 3/4 billion dollars to set up the...

I think you should not put Rivian and Nikola in the same basket. Nikola is a scam. They have nothing but renderings and a few fake proto-types whilst Rivian have actually made working proto-types and have production facilities and major backing from Ford and more especially Amazon. I have...