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With regards to validation testing on the Terra, I’d like to see real world results with towing of a heavy trailer (up to 10,000lbs in various road conditions and temperatures for both the BEV and Harvester versions and see what the differences are between the two versions for expected performance with a trailer.
They are in testing phases now so I’m hoping Jamie or SM share these results as well. It will be unlikely I’ll ever tow numbers anywhere near that high but I would like to also know true numbers
But testing where? When do we get spy pictures of the mules hauling?
I don’t have that kind of clearance
. Anxious to know myself!!!
I believe there is testing in Michigan and a few other places. But no pictures of engineering samples have been shown. Probably because they blend into the crowd.I don’t have that kind of clearance
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I imagine this is pure speculation but the time frame would match up. Ford had Bronco mules out two years prior to their unveiling and probably 3 years prior to their production run. Seems like alot of testing for vehicles of this nature takes place in high altitude areas. TFL often spies these in Colardo.
I would imagine that the mules have been out since the reveal happened.
Begs the question as to how they are disguising the mules. Knowing the prototypes aren’t fully functioning what vehicle are the mules using to get the real world testing?
I would be going the tesla cyber truck route lol. Put Bronco, Jeep, and G Wagon liverys on the traveler and put other American trucks on the Terra. To disguise it. And for Mule vehicles they probably had the Tennessee Plant built a few vehicles for them.
Ford of Europe used to do that with their engineering test vehicles ( and Ford probably still does along with other manufacturers). Check out the Secret Ford books, they are interesting reads)
There should be cold weather testing, high altitude testing, and high heat- desert - testing, so there ideally should be Colorado, Michigan and Arizona based test vehicles running around.
We are assuming it is here in the U.S. with parent VWAG it might be better to test in Europe then none of us here can spy on them.
Either way I would presume early rounds of winter testing are occurring since it’s that time of year.
Everyone start looking for the electric truck-shaped zebras running around out in nature!
Either way I would presume early rounds of winter testing are occurring since it’s that time of year.
Everyone start looking for the electric truck-shaped zebras running around out in nature!
We just completed a round of Winter testing and the vehicles performed better than our teams expected. These mules were not driven on public streets and thus why you haven't seen any spy photos yet. Either way, they are covered in camouflage and some really ugly bodywork... LOL.
Thats what we like to hear in the Auto Industry, “performed better than our teams expected”.
In the past I’ve heard of auto makers testing in places as diverse as Scandinavia, New Zealand and Australia.
Must be camouflaged as a cybertruck…
I just hope they sometime do winter testing away from the "dry" snow of the Rockies and experience the wet sticky snow and highway sludge of winter we experience in the Northeast. (Well, just about the entire East and South this year.)
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