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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:57 Ready, Set…
4:13 Thanks to Magna International
4:55 Back to the towing match!
13:16 End of the road?
18:31 Hummer EV Charging Speed
21:11 And the Ram carries on!
22:18 Filling up the Cummins: How did the Ram do?
24:52 Another update & closing thoughts
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It is a NO BRAINER buy the Dodge oh wait buy 2 LOL
maybe drive slower?? just a thought… pretty nonsensical to drive 70 with that massive trailer. Let's hear what the range is if you go 60. Drag is key as you've mentioned.
Got that big caulk out?
Best part, pull up to a fuel station and be back on the road in 5 min, not 5 hours.
Great video! I am certainly going to keep my 2021 Ram 3500 HO Cummins and smile while driving it…
It seems like mountainous terrain would be very much to the Hummer's advantage, because of regenerative braking.
I don't agree the a 6.7 liter engine is exactly what you want to have in a towing rig. It's way too big for a pickup truck. Scale down a semi truck engine to the needs of this rig and it would be something like a 4 liter 180 hp plant. And it was actually quite disappointing to learn what kind of fuel economy the truck was getting. Granted, that's not much worse than the truck gets without a trailer, probably, but that gives an indication of the problem right there. It's way too much engine. Compare its performance to Chevy's 3 liter diesel, which got two and three times the miles per gallon, and the Ford and Ram 3 liters were close behind.
Couple things. The EV sucks on range, but at 11 mpg with 20 gallons – 220 miles – the diesel ain't so hot either. And 11 mpg is only about 30% better than a semi loaded at 80,000 lbs and with a frontal area twice the size. That's terrible.
Waste of time= EV
I really wish they broke down the per mile pricing. The hummer travelled 128 miles on a 210kwh but they didn't use all of the battery pack, so lets say it used 190kwh at .43 kwh pricing. That would cost 81 to fill up to go 128. 81/128= .63 cent a mile. The Ram went 211 miles with 21.76 gallons and their gas cost 4.79/gallon. The total cost is 104.23/211= .49 cent a mile. So the per mile towing is cheaper on the Ram, the ram is more practical because fill up is faster and without requiring to unhitch, find parking and guard your trailer and wait for it to charge, battery degrade with faster charging, the ram could go longer without filling up and gas station are more abundant and the Ram cost half the price. So why would trucking people want an ev, it makes no sense. Trucks are tools and not a weekend toy. If you have 120k to spend I would buy a base model ram for 30k as my work car, a prius prime for 30k as my daily commuter and a base supera as a weekend car for 42k and still have 18k left over. Also, if one car goes down i still have two car or I could lend out of town guest my cars.
I love the math: 68,000 ×2= 114,000
Honest question. I saw after you split up you were running 73 mph. Were you doing that with the hummer as well? Speed is a massive killer of mpg when towing a trailer like that. If you guys were only running 60 – 65 with the hummer then after splitting up you ran 73 that's completely a bad result. Just curious if you made sure you matched that. Even a couple mph towing a wimd sail like that makes a difference.
The vehicles and infrastructure are not developed enough for this type of use, from what I observed in this video, purchasing an EV/SUV is a fool's purchase unless you restrict your travel to a 50 mile radius of your home location. The B(h)ummer was not capable of the desired trip and route, the Dodge Ram only had to fuel up as needed and that was a long ways down the road. How much of an extra stipend is this channel earning to try and peddle EVs? The technology and the infrastructure are not mature enough and probably won't be in your lifetime.
Had you put 100% charge back it would have taken a long time and the cost would have been about equal to the diesel if the charge wasn't free due to the promotion. Also, that charging station probably wasn't solar or wind powered so has is that energy efficient? Remember when the CA governor asked its EV owners not to charge their cars so the grid wouldn't crash causing rolling blackouts.
So what your saying is we still don't have the infrastructure to use a EV to tow with even for recreational use. Got it. Thanks. Bottom line, you didn't make your destination. But still love the real world testing. You guys are great. I just think with the way things are, we still have another 10 years yet. Love the videos though.
I would like to see a time comparison between filling up an empty truck with diesel compared to fully charging an electric truck. Even without towing a trailer, how many hours would it add to an 800 mile trip?
Magna screwed my father over by laying him off when they packed up and moved to Mexico, after he worked at their plant in Syracuse, NY for 20 years. Thanks for putting a dampening on my whole childhood Magna!
twice the battery as the lightning but comes nowhere close to going twice the distance
it's zipping kinda like downloading a song in the 90's lol
I like the video but I think when testing you should load up the trailers don't think any body is towing a empty box around it would show a way more accurate score if you were loaded down going on a trip, still a good show.
Just stop buying this EV shit & get on with life!
You are being conned just like the Covid 19 BS.
Long live the ICE vehicle.
whats the cost per mile though? Hummer was $35 vs Cummins at $96