Towing a Teardrop Trailer

[RonS]

I am planning to use my R1T to tow my teardrop trailer. Obviously I will have plenty of power but any suggestions on how to estimate range? The trailer is very small (about 9 x 6, under 1000 lbs). I just upgraded to premium A Better Rout Planner because I understood you could adjust it to account for a trailer. I haven’t yet figured out how. Any suggestion?

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[jjswan33]

The range loss will be the same as the MPG hit from towing your trailer with a gas vehicle for the most part. Will largely depend on how much wider or taller the trailer is than the truck.

The TFL guys did a video comparing an R1T towing a teardrop trailer.

 

[Max]

I am planning to use my R1T to tow my teardrop trailer. Obviously I will have plenty of power but any suggestions on how to estimate range? The trailer is very small (about 9 x 6, under 1000 lbs). I just upgraded to premium A Better Rout Planner because I understood you could adjust it to account for a trailer. I haven’t yet figured out how. Any suggestion?

Sorry I don’t have much to contribute. But I do have an ask. Please share your experience after your trip. very interested in power consumption at highway speed with your trailer. I will be shopping for one after I get mine and finding the right balance of comfort and range would be important. Your report will help.

 

[ajdelange]

You will have to determine what your trailer's effective consumption is and add that to the vehicle's. I think ABRP defaults to almost 500 Wh/mi for the R1T which seems to me to be a bit pessimistic. It appears that 400 may be more like it but I am having a bit of trouble accepting that it is really that low even though that's what the truck's Trip Odometer is telling me. Assuming that it is (optimimisticall) 400 I'd double that which may be pessimistic for a small trailer IOW I'd set ABRP to 800 Wh/mi as an initial guess and compare that to what you get on the road.

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