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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The 300 mile range is too optimistic and towing numbers are too optimistic.
I'm just waiting for someone to actually do it so I can laugh at their excuses when they are hitting chargers every 80 to 110 miles.
I hear lots of optimism and zero experience dealing with electric vehicles. Who's the authority on electric vehice towing around here? Unfortunately that's me and I say any one who buys those numbers is going to end up on the side of the road with a dead battery.
So how much electric towing has everyone done?
I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who has actually done it and agrees with those numbers.
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*The 300 mile range was measured pulling the fully-operational prototype trailer behind BEV pickups of 300-mile range solo.
*The fully-operational trailer was road-tested and verified by the Airship team members, who created AirShip, and ,are all RV enthusiasts, routinely taking RV trailer camping trips as research.
* I've constructed four streamlined trailers.
* Three are road-tested.
* The worst cost me 4-mpgs.
* The next cost me 2-mpgs.
* Viking is 'invisible', costing zero- mpgs, with zero power assist.
* #4 is expected to produce over-unity, passively.
* BamZipPow's T-100, pulling his 1-wheeler can get 38-mpg when towing, compared to 19-mpg as an OEM pickup, solo.
* I've been towing trailers since 1971, from 18-wheelers with 55-foot flatbeds, to a Honda CRX pulling one and two-wheelers.
* Electric towing isn't any different than ICE towing with a very small fuel tank.
* You don't have any monopoly on towing experience.
* The reason I enrolled in the mechanical engineering program at Texas Tech in 1976 was so I could understand the physics of fuel economy.
* And while my maternal grandfather was the president of an Oklahoma oil company, even he was interested in fuel economy and drove a Rambler. I probably originally heard the term from him on family visits to Ardmore in the 1950s.
* I've done a mathematical proof of AirShip for myself. There's nothing out of line with their claims. You can take everything Hucho published about RV trailers, add in everything Hucho published about the NASCAR two-car draft, and everything Hucho published about aerodynamic singularities, dating to 1922, and figure out how absolutely 'smart' the folks at AirShip are! There reporting aligns well with the 'Logic of Port Royal.' It would be more unbelievable for their claims to be false, than it would be for them to be true.