[Hersbird]

Originally Posted by JSH

I guess it is a failure if you bought a Rivian to haul 8,000 lb trucks up mountains. I bet it handles the occasional trip to Home Depot just fine.

I wonder how it would do pulling one of the teardrop trailers that are all the rage right now. This one is 21 foot and 3200 lbs. (Little Guy Max)

I started on this forum years ago asking about the design of a trailer just like that, and was enlightened about things like how a parachute works, which is exactly how the back of that trailer is designed. People in the real world quickly find no advantages in feul economy towing a trailer like that or the R-pod was the one I was looking at.
Now a real teardrop like I have now does OK but those stand up teardrops are not really teardrops at all, just a standard camper with less room in the back and too fast of a taper to be of any aerodynamic advantage.

Still just using the fast charging price and Rivian range NOT towing makes it cost more per mile than a normal F150 buying gas. 135 kw to go 235 miles? You probably need to buy 150 kw to actually add 135 kw and at $.31 per kw puts you at $46 to go 235 miles. Now a F150 will get 28 mpg and use under 9 gallons to go that far, or gas would have to cost over $5/gallon to equal that. I have a feeling if gas hits $5/gallon, electricity will also go a similar percentage increase higher as well.