cvalue13
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And home builders could also build and sell 200sq ft houses. Point being, at some point the operational complexity and margin doesn’t justify the product.
all setting aside the key issues that smugglers bay isn’t a great place for a battery (for lots of reasons - eg proximity to penthouse, weight capacity, crashworthiness, etc.
meanwhile, if you listen to eg TLF you likely will end up not understanding range in BEV trucks. I don’t know if it’s that those guys don’t understand BEV trucks, or if sensational content makes them uninterested in nuance and the facts, or both.
You can absolutely tow a “medium sized camper” 110mi with the Lightning, and I can only assume that the same is true for the Rivian.
you do so the exact same way you would tow your medium camper with a truck starting out with eg 13-15 gal of gas and a 20mpg efficiency (absent towing), like almost any ICE F150:
you precondition, you air up your tires, you don’t go 75-80mph, etc.
those TLF guys, and many like them, do their towing “tests” or “comparisons” under the following assumption (which goes unstated):
“how far can you tow if you prep and drive like a lazy ICE owner in 2023, who has so much fuel tank, and so many refueling stations, that they’ve lost the ability to understand the physics of towing?”
Put differently, from the 1990s back to the 1950s, before huge fuel tanks and stations in every corner, I’m confident people towed things from Colorado Springs to and through Salida. They did so in trucks that had merely as good, or worse, range than BEV trucks.
If my grandfather were alive and saw a TFL video (lifelong RV Hunter throughout Colorado), he’d take a sip of his Old Crow and say “then slow down, air up your tires, and man up, you jackasses”
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