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To: thegagline

One factor in anything but a large trailer is that they do not have regenerative braking, so whatever margin of the braking is done by the trailer is all lost to heat. So the 2-digit estimate for range with a decent-sized trailer is probably good for all but perfectly flat non-stop driving.


33 posted on 05/21/2021 11:56:00 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BobL

“One factor in anything but a large trailer is that they do not have regenerative braking...”

Sorry, need to PROOF-READ:

What I MEANT to say is the following (quite different):

“Trailers, as far as I know, DO NOT have regenerative braking, as electric vehicles do have. Without regen, all breaking energy is lost to heat, thereby killing range.”


37 posted on 05/21/2021 12:03:35 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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