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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Well as I said, it depends on if that added work is fighting aero drag, or if it's merely hauling weight around.
Double the weight of the CT but put all of it inside the vehicle, and you'd hardly notice any drop in range. Very little is wasted going down steep grades or otherwise slowing down.
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On the highway, cargo completely enclosed inside isn't going to affect gas, diesel, or EV significantly .
There are downhill roads that even with max regen braking are going to require either nauseatingly slow speeds or actual friction brake applications. We have a lot of passes here that have nice long straight downhills, followed by 25 mph hairpins, followed by nice long straight sections. You could probably just hold 30 mph on the whole thing but you usually let it pick back up some speed. TFLcar has been doing some EV testing up and down Loveland pass in Colorado from 5000 ft Boulder to 12,000 foot summit and they still don't gain much if any battery back onnthe downhill. They also run climate control and maintain speed limits and such to try and make it what a normal person might expect. They have only done the Kona and the Golf but they have a Model X too, I just haven't seen that episode. The Golf actually couldn't make it without a mid charge, but the Kona did it no sweat with 120 miles of range left.