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Tested: How Towing Affects the Electric Pickups—Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and the Ford F-150 Lightning
Car and Driver | August 16, 2022 | DAVE VANDERWERP

Posted on 08/21/2022 2:59:35 PM PDT by absalom01

These new electric pickups are wonderful towing companions, aided by massive horsepower and torque that allow for easy merging with the flow of interstate traffic, and their heavy curb weights (between 6855 pounds for the F-150 and 9640 pounds for the Hummer) lend an impressive stability when lugging a three-ton trailer. But you won't want to be going far, as a full battery will take you a mere 100 miles in the Lightning, 110 miles in the R1T, and 140 miles in the Hummer. Although the Hummer consumes electricity at the highest rate of the three, its considerably larger battery pack more than makes up for the difference.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: automotive; ev; rv; towing
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To: dfwgator

Not only personal transpo. Remember the dollar is tied to oil since Bretton Woods 2. If you collapse the oil industry you collapse the dollar and it will no longer be the standard currency of the world.


81 posted on 08/21/2022 6:09:50 PM PDT by Cowman
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To: dangus

Average interstate mileage on a mostly flat route (say Houston to Florida) is roughly 15 mpg. With the trailer it’s a shade over 10.

Add a grade and all bets are off..can be as low as 8 with the airstream in tow.


82 posted on 08/21/2022 6:20:09 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

And charge in ten minutes at any gas station


83 posted on 08/21/2022 6:30:26 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: dfwgator

I believe the term “he” used was , “fundamentally change”.


84 posted on 08/21/2022 6:45:49 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Save The Grid, Phase Out EV's)
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To: absalom01

I read on some of the higher end model EV’s, you can program in what type of horn sound you prefer. The Arabs seem to like the realistic sheep horn. Of course some people in big cities prefer the shotgun blast horn.


85 posted on 08/21/2022 7:11:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: absalom01

Is the Hummer’s significantly larger battery also more likely to burst into flames?


86 posted on 08/21/2022 7:32:06 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Tell It Right

“Basically having both an EV and an ICE is the best of both worlds. ”

If you only need to make short trips.
And the rest of us are paying for that vehicle with the large subsidies they get .
I think electric vehicles would be great. In 30 years when the technology is ready.


87 posted on 08/21/2022 7:35:56 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Tell It Right

Plus all the rolling virtue signaling you get to do....


88 posted on 08/21/2022 7:51:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: absalom01
These are perfect for the wanna be truck and off-road drivers that have their fancy vehicles all tricked out but never tow with them or drive them off pavement. They are perfect, but expensive, around town cars. Nothing more.

Why no hybrids? I have a Toyota hybrid, get nearly 60 miles to a gallon. Great daily car around town and for simple road trips. Curious why no trucks or 4x4s.

89 posted on 08/21/2022 7:56:37 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: absalom01

well taking a month to go the coast is still better than walking./s


90 posted on 08/21/2022 8:03:32 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: absalom01

Where can you go with only a 100 mile round trip?


91 posted on 08/21/2022 8:52:37 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: bray

Nowhere.

It’s not fit for purpose.


92 posted on 08/21/2022 10:14:14 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: crusty old prospector

🤣👍


93 posted on 08/22/2022 12:24:16 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“Add a gasoline powered generator and a 20-gallon gas tank.

Oh wait, that would kind of defeat the purpose”

That is a hybrid and the only Car / SUV I’d consider. 50 MPG, 600+ mile range on some sedans.


94 posted on 08/22/2022 1:23:15 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: absalom01

My 2011 GMC does just fine with 53,000 miles on the clock.

Wish it got better mileage...


95 posted on 08/22/2022 4:33:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.q at)
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To: absalom01

I’m OK with folks buying EVs. I would even consider a reasonably priced one for local driving. Might even be kind of neat. What gets my back up is the govt pushing these things. Let the market decide, unassisted & unmolested, whether EVs make it or not.

(The wife had a Prius. I picked on her about her “roller skate”, but it was a great little car.)


96 posted on 08/22/2022 7:41:48 AM PDT by moovova
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To: absalom01

Don’t panic folks it’s just a fad. Wait until they have to replace batteries.


97 posted on 08/22/2022 9:08:06 AM PDT by Rappini
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To: HereInTheHeartland
If you believe as I do that things like tax credits do nothing but raise the price, then the $7,500 tax credit had no bearing on my decision to buy an EV. The seller probably raised the price by $7,500 anyway.

I'm with you -- get rid of the subsidies. All they do is give taxpayer money to the car makers. I'm just saying that EV's bring something to the table beyond virtue signaling to people who believe in warmageddon. If you need 2 cars anyway it's worth considering one of them being an EV.

98 posted on 08/22/2022 1:07:22 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: central_va

I can’t stand that stuff. I wish I had a dollar for everyone who assumed I voted Dim because they saw me get out of my EV. I tell them in all honestly that my first vote for the Dims will be sometime after I die.


99 posted on 08/22/2022 1:09:44 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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