Yeah that’s not towing my Hewescraft very far.EVs are so incredibly efficient I think it will be a while before they can handle >100 miles of towing especially with larger boats and RVs. Slow speeds, off road, pretty much everything else they are more efficient, towing not so much.
You can’t overcome physics. The amount of drag (additional forces) that need to be overcome pulling a trailer at a given speed is the same regardless of what is pulling it, f150 lightning, R1T, CyberTruck, ICE LX570,…. The difference is that with EVs being extremely efficient (for comparison my LX570 uses 2.8 kWh/mi for its “rated mpg”) you really notice the extra force and gas tanks have huge energy capacity, ~850 kWh in a gas truck, ~1200 kWh in a diesel.
Just basic rough math pulling my camper (frontal profile 8’x8’, cd 0.65, -40% (for the truck profile), with 0.015 rolling resistance) on a flat surface @55 mph with still air requires an additional 1-1.2 kw of energy. At @70 mph more like 1.5-1.8 kw.
Same math with the boat I had (26’ Duckworth) looking at additional ~0.9-1kw @55 mph.
So with the camper if baseline “rated” is ~400 Wh/mi then looking at 1.5 kw/mi @55 mph and >2 kw/mi @70 mph. Even with a 200 kw battery only going to go ~100-130 miles max.
We don’t need more efficient EV trucks we need more energy dense batteries