Heavy tow record.

[red750]

Just caught a quick report on Sunrise. A Tesla sedan has set a new World Record for the heaviest tow by an electric passenger vehicle by towing a Qantas Boeing 787-9. A later bulletin may have more details.

 

 

[red750]

Apparently the car towed the aircraft 300 metres.

 

 

[Blue Drifter]

I bet the 787 had no fuel and over inflated tyres. Didn’t some Strongman pull a 747 a few years ago?

 

 

[old man emu]

The Boeing 787-9 has an empty weight of 110700 kg. If the plane was on a level sealed surface; tyres at normal pressure, and wheel bearings in good order, then if the rolling coefficient of friction of the surface was 0.30, then the force required to accelerate the plane from zero to 1 metre per second would be:

 

F = m . a

 

= 110700 . (9.8 . 0.3)

 

= 110700 . 2.94

 

= 325,458 Newtons.

 

However, 1 metre per second = 3 kph, so to determine how much force the Tesla had to exert, you would have to know how the time and distance it took for the car and plane to reach a constant speed, and what that speed was.

 

3 kph is a gentle strolling pace. I doubt if the final speed reached was so fast.

 

 

[Thruster88]

Tesla needs all the positive publicity it can get at the moment.

 

The Bourke road train pull is more impressive 112 trailers empty is over 1000 tons