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That’s a fancy luggage rack you got there!

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Just returned from our “quick”, five week coast to coast jaunt and back.  Some quick stats. tldr version We traveled 7,000 miles cross country and back with our Bowlus and paid $0 in fuel costs First day of trip Detailed version Mileage traveled 7,000 miles traveled in total (6,000 miles towing Bowlus, 1,000 miles sans trailer) Energy used 3280 kWh (2904 kWh towing, 376 kWh not towing) Average energy consumption 484 watt/mile towing (highway speed range 55-67 mph) 376 watt/mile not towing (highway speed range 70-85 mph) *Cost of “fuel” for trip $0 (Compared to ~$3000 in gas if we had done the trip with a similarly sized SUV.) *We have unlimited free supercharging with our Model X.  If we had a newer Model X and had to pay for electricity the cost would have been ~$1200.  This still would have been significantly less than towing with an ICE vehicle. Finally…the title of this post While I was charging a nice gentleman came over and started chatting about the Tesla and the trailer