SageBrush said:I find it amusing to read the same people who bought LEAF because it was cheap, talk about buying a newly released Ariya. As if it was going to sell for anything less than MSRP for the first 3 - 6 months
webeleafowners said:Starting to look like our next EV will be a new model X. But probably waiting until Jan to put in the order for hopefully an April delivery. We are planning on pulling a small 2800 pound dry weight trailer and now leaning away from the Cybertruck that we currently have a reservation on. The model X should do a good job of towing the trailer for our kind of RVing. Still waiting to do a test drive and that from what I gather is still a few months away as Tesla centres don’t have any yet.
Interesting -- the *only* Tesla I would buy for towing would be the cybertruckwebeleafowners said:Starting to look like our next EV will be a new model X. But probably waiting until Jan to put in the order for hopefully an April delivery. We are planning on pulling a small 2800 pound dry weight trailer and now leaning away from the Cybertruck that we currently have a reservation on. The model X should do a good job of towing the trailer for our kind of RVing. Still waiting to do a test drive and that from what I gather is still a few months away as Tesla centres don’t have any yet.
SageBrush said:Interesting -- the *only* Tesla I would buy for towing would be the cybertruckwebeleafowners said:Starting to look like our next EV will be a new model X. But probably waiting until Jan to put in the order for hopefully an April delivery. We are planning on pulling a small 2800 pound dry weight trailer and now leaning away from the Cybertruck that we currently have a reservation on. The model X should do a good job of towing the trailer for our kind of RVing. Still waiting to do a test drive and that from what I gather is still a few months away as Tesla centres don’t have any yet.
What is your reasoning ?
webeleafowners said:SageBrush said:Interesting -- the *only* Tesla I would buy for towing would be the cybertruckwebeleafowners said:Starting to look like our next EV will be a new model X. But probably waiting until Jan to put in the order for hopefully an April delivery. We are planning on pulling a small 2800 pound dry weight trailer and now leaning away from the Cybertruck that we currently have a reservation on. The model X should do a good job of towing the trailer for our kind of RVing. Still waiting to do a test drive and that from what I gather is still a few months away as Tesla centres don’t have any yet.
What is your reasoning ?
Well, we actually have a reservation for a cybertruck...but it’s probably overkill for us. We have been touring North America in a diesel pusher for almost 18 years. Great coach. Has served us well. The last 5 years we have been towing an electric smart car. But there have been so many camp sites that we have had to pass since we are just to big. This time we are going into all the small out of the way parks, including Vancouver island and all the little islands that can only be accessed by ferry’s. The Cybertruck would work great, but we don’t want to be a two vehicle family if we can avoid it and we don’t want our only vehicle to be a truck. Soooo, we are leaning towards the model x and selling the model 3 after I retire (again) this fall. It’s hard retiring here right now, unemployment is super low and everyone is looking for people to hire.
Anyway. Hope that makes sense. Motorhome has a pending deal on it. That was the first step. If the deal closes we’ll get serious.
I'll be surprised if the cybertruck does not make a good little camper all by itself, either as delivered or with aftermarket options. The cybertruck may make your trailer redundant.webeleafowners said:It does. And yes it would be nice to have the big battery. But the way we camp we seldom travel more than a couple hundred kilometers in a day. In B.C. there are so many places to camp and hike. If I travel 100 km in any direction from our little town I ‘ll have passed 5 amazing camping hiking areas.
But I hear ya. So much to consider.
webeleafowners said:It does. And yes it would be nice to have the big battery. But the way we camp we seldom travel more than a couple hundred kilometers in a day. In B.C. there are so many places to camp and hike. If I travel 100 km in any direction from our little town I ‘ll have passed 5 amazing camping hiking areas.
Grrrr, still waiting for our RAV4 Prime, going off what our dealer said, we should expect to wait another 12-18 months moreOrientExpress said:We turned in our '18 LEAF last month and bought a RAV4 Prime PHEV to replace it. It's a great compromise in that it gets 47 miles in pure EV mode which is perfect for our 95% driving and gets between 45 & 120 MPG in hybrid mode for our 5% road trips.
I also have a Taycan Cross Tursimo on order for a late 2021 delivery.
WetEV said:webeleafowners said:It does. And yes it would be nice to have the big battery. But the way we camp we seldom travel more than a couple hundred kilometers in a day. In B.C. there are so many places to camp and hike. If I travel 100 km in any direction from our little town I ‘ll have passed 5 amazing camping hiking areas.
Any specific reason to not the e-tron?
jjeff said:Mr. Grumpy,
I'm also skeptical about the MPGs on PHEVs but like you are willing to be enlightened. I can understand the ~40 miles of pure EV range but when we go on road trips it's often 400 miles+ without stopping, or at least no opportunity to charge along the way so I'm not sure how it's going to work. Would it be best to use the 40 EV miles up first and then run the last 360 miles in mostly all ICE miles or try and save the EV miles for later?? and risk leaving some in the battery, where we'd be able to fill the battery up once at our destination. In our case for town driving were planning on using almost all EV miles, it's just trip miles I'm not so sure of, although if I could get the 39 EPA highway ICE MPG, I'd probably be mostly happy. Not the 50mpg we get in our current Prius but not bad either for a higher more offroad capable comfortable vehicle, time will tell........
120 MPGe loldmacarthur said:Mister Grumpy here will bet large bills that the RAV (or any other car of its weight, for that matter) will NEVER get 120 MPG when used beyond the EV capability. Drive, say, 200 miles, 40 on the battery and 160 on the ICE, you MAY see 60 MPG but Grumpy doubts it. And as for the RAV mileage when used for long trips: Grumpy doubts 45 but is willing to listen to real life stories. Too much finagling of numbers, let us see some actual info.....
OrientExpress said:Our first long trip in the RAV4 Prime had a significant amount of mountain interstate driving...
G3NG4R said:How did the PHEV Rav4 do pulling up the mountain interstates? Did you find yourself in want of more power?
I'm eyeing a PHEV to replace my ICE in the next couple of years and I'm curious what your experience was.
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