Willie, What if you put pedal to the metal for a while - like 10 minutes? I heard they are governed at some point - because of heat. Towing up a mountain would simply cause the same effect at lower speeds.
I am not sure why this idea - that there is a limit to how much a Tesla can tow - is annoying to anyone. It is not a truck. It would be silly for them to build truck duty into a car. Put a hitch on there so you can take your bikes, or pull a little trailer with limited payload (like 800 lb). That is great. A scoop of damp compost? Take it easy with that. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Willie2 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/14/2015 12:49 PM, Mark Grasser via EV wrote: > >> It just boggles my mind how these comments can be made while Knowing >> nothing about the engineering that has gone into these cars to make them >> able to tow. What gives any indication that they can't tow as well as any >> other car or for that matter that they will over heat? They don't have >> adequate cooling? I suggest that people that make accusations back them up >> with facts. Geese. >> >> Mark Grasser >> >> >> As reported here a year or so ago, I used my S to tow a ~800 pound tear > drop trailer ~1000 miles last winter. Not towing energy use was 300-400 > wh/m, with the trailer it was ~500+ wh/m. More recently, I pulled my imiev > (regenning) about 100 miles; energy consumption there was 600+ wh/m. As I > recall. The Tesla gave me no trouble with either endeavour. > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150414/510587d4/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
