Right there with you! My son and I restored a 89 D150 with a 318 and it only gets about 11mpg on a good day downhill with a tailwind breeze with the engine off in nuetral.
ICE people don't realize that... If you travel 3 weeks or of the year and work the rest... Assuming you fill up once a week that's 49 trips to fill up you're not wasting time on.
No worries...I was just saying that. I didn't think you were implying anything.;) I hear folks on every platform complain about long range towing. It's definitely more time consuming but much less stressful. If you don't care about arriving on a long trip exhausted and cannon ball running...
Thanks. I'm not complaining. With tow pups and a wife in the cab we usually stop more than the required charging in general. I had an 05 F250 diesel for about 10 years and it was great at towing but expensive and rough riding unless I had at least 500lbs on the tongue.
Started with 260 miles of range. Stopped every approximately 100 miles with about 70 miles remaining and charged to 260ish. We stopped 3 times and arrived at our final destination with. The navigation wasn't adjusting for the slower speed. It's like every new leg it was counting on me driving...
So I towed a Jeep XJ from Nashville TN to Dayton Ohio and range was 50%.
My average consumption was 748Wh/m.
I set cruise at 65 mph on low suspension setting with all seasons. Towed like a dream and with air suspension unhitching took about a minute. We had to unhitch once.
Pretty easy trip.
Gotcha. Check your grounds..I had an issue with my trailer first tow and this truck seems more sensitive to weak grounds. My model y towed this same small motorcycle trailer last time and it didn't find any issues. The CT made me find a slightly cut intermittent ground wire.
Are you referring to the warning that you're going to hit something when you reverse with a trailer attached?
If so I agree this is anyone as hell. When "trailer mode" was first introduced the backup warning should be disabled when towing is engaged.
It's in software:
v12 (2024.45.32.5 193db94d3a14)
I'll probably tow something Tuesday. I'll play with it and see what it allows. I'm assuming it won't since they haven't accomplished unsupervised driving yet but who knows.. I've been a Tesla owner for 7 years and nothing surprises me in that...
All wheel steering is better for towing in all regards. The initial adjustment to the difference is needed but after you've got it it's good.
I've towed a lot and it's a game changer. Especially in tight spaces.