Car Wow video - Things that impact your Range and efficiency - from normal driving to towing a trailer

[Codyroo]

A nice video on a test track where they take an EV and test items that impact the range and efficiency of the engine/batteries. Items such as towing a trailer, having a bike rack (with or without a bike), a ski rack, running the A/C, heater, heated seats, wiper blades, etc all at the same time and at full volume.

Food for thought when you read about people's road trips and the efficiency they are seeing. Speed, peripherals, weather, wind, etc all play a factor, some more than others.....

 

[RichMalden]

A nice video on a test track where they take an EV and test items that impact the range and efficiency of the engine/batteries. Items such as towing a trailer, having a bike rack (with or without a bike), a ski rack, running the A/C, heater, heated seats, wiper blades, etc all at the same time and at full volume.

Food for thought when you read about people's road trips and the efficiency they are seeing. Speed, peripherals, weather, wind, etc all play a factor, some more than others.....

This gives you an awesome rough representation of how things reduce the mileage and the relative percentages. I am glad the closed aerodynamic cargo carrier wasn't all that bad of an impact certainly when compared to ski racks and bike racks.