That doesn't mean that it is financially unviable to improve tailers, to the benefit of both gas and electric vehicles. With the advent of Airshaper, CFD is commercially viable for trailer companies R&D if there is demand.
I deleted my previous reply as I did not properly read the article you linked. Motortrend briefly touch on the point that the Aging Wheels video goes into much more depth on. That it is aerodynamic efficiency, not weight that has the significant impact on range. This is an important distinction. Tools, construction materials, etc. weigh what they weigh, altering that variable to a significant degree is not really a feasable proposal and does rule out electric vehicles in general for viable long distance towing if this was the major impacting factor. Improving aerodynamic efficiency of heavy towed loads as a major impacting factor however is a much more viable strategy.
I think a more accurate criticism is that electric vehicles are a poor choice for towing aerodynamicly inefficient loads long distance, as whilst the efficiency loss impacts all vehicle types, the energy carrying capacity and recharge times of many current electric vehicles make them a worse choice.
Wayland implementations can still be hot garbage on any of the major DE's depending on the hardware and use case. The "iT WoRks FiNe FoR mE, SmOoTh aS butter" crowd don't help this. I'm willing to bet that a lot of issues that people write off as a "linux" problem is actually a Wayland problem and don't bother to test under a true x11 only environment (KDE x11 does not count). My ultimate issue with this constant Wayland changeover evangelising is the failure to identify actual end user problems that need solving so badly that it requires forcing through an entirely new and often broken system.
On a microsoft surface, just switched back to X11 from Wayland. Multiple applications segfaulting that run fine under X11. Mode switching in kde is miserable under Wayland with it being completely random as to how the resizing is applied if it doesn't just crash the DE.. Works perfectly under X11. Weird power state switching under Wayland causing background tasks to fail. Again works fine under X11.
That doesn't mean that it is financially unviable to improve tailers, to the benefit of both gas and electric vehicles. With the advent of Airshaper, CFD is commercially viable for trailer companies R&D if there is demand.
I deleted my previous reply as I did not properly read the article you linked. Motortrend briefly touch on the point that the Aging Wheels video goes into much more depth on. That it is aerodynamic efficiency, not weight that has the significant impact on range. This is an important distinction. Tools, construction materials, etc. weigh what they weigh, altering that variable to a significant degree is not really a feasable proposal and does rule out electric vehicles in general for viable long distance towing if this was the major impacting factor. Improving aerodynamic efficiency of heavy towed loads as a major impacting factor however is a much more viable strategy.
I think a more accurate criticism is that electric vehicles are a poor choice for towing aerodynamicly inefficient loads long distance, as whilst the efficiency loss impacts all vehicle types, the energy carrying capacity and recharge times of many current electric vehicles make them a worse choice.
Aging wheels debunked this: https://youtu.be/UmKf8smvGsA
Wayland implementations can still be hot garbage on any of the major DE's depending on the hardware and use case. The "iT WoRks FiNe FoR mE, SmOoTh aS butter" crowd don't help this. I'm willing to bet that a lot of issues that people write off as a "linux" problem is actually a Wayland problem and don't bother to test under a true x11 only environment (KDE x11 does not count). My ultimate issue with this constant Wayland changeover evangelising is the failure to identify actual end user problems that need solving so badly that it requires forcing through an entirely new and often broken system.
On a microsoft surface, just switched back to X11 from Wayland. Multiple applications segfaulting that run fine under X11. Mode switching in kde is miserable under Wayland with it being completely random as to how the resizing is applied if it doesn't just crash the DE.. Works perfectly under X11. Weird power state switching under Wayland causing background tasks to fail. Again works fine under X11.