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Towing a trailer with an electric vehicle can result in a range reduction as high as 50 percent. Considering that most EVs these days still cause the so-called range anxiety, either because of their capabilities in real-world scenarios or because of improper charging infrastructure, towing a trailer is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
That means that trailer makers must design products specifically for the EV sector. The first efforts in this sense have already been made: there’s a new Polydrop camper made for a small vehicle like a Tesla Model 3, Lordstown has already announced a partnership with Camping World for the Endurance pickup, and the Rivian R1T pickup is being tested for towing large trailers, with a focus on how it affects range.
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This Is What Happened To The Very First Lordstown Endurance Prototype
Feb 12, 2021 at 4:27pm ET ++ The company preferred not to disclose what caused the fire.
We recently learned a Lordstown Endurance prototype caught fire a little after midnight on January 13. The only report we could find about it was published by
Farmington Press.
InsideEVs began investigating the details surrounding the incident and its cause, and we managed to learn a whole lot more. Farmington Hills authorities provided us with information and pictures due to our Freedom Of Information Act requests.
On January 12, Pirakalathan Pathmanathan – Lordstown Motors’ powertrain director – took the Endurance prototype for a test drive. He was accompanied by Simone Palombi and Akshay Sharma, two of his coworkers, who joined in what was the very first test of the prototype, which had “cleared testing inside of the factory.”
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For car companies with big electric ambitions, 2021 is going to be a make or break year.
More than a dozen new electric-vehicle models are set to arrive in U.S. showrooms this year as Silicon Valley-inspired startups and established auto makers like General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG show drivers the results of billions in spending on the technology.
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For consumers, that’s going to mean more plug-in options on the new car lot than ever before. But whether car makers can persuade buyers to ditch fossil fuels for good is still uncertain.