The Utah Ducati Run · Monday, June 29, 2026

San Diego Alpine, Utah

Driving the Rivian R1T to Alpine, Utah to pick up a 2025 Ducati Panigale V4 Tricolore off Bring a Trailer, then towing it home on a U-Haul trailer. A different, far lighter trailer than the Airstream, for a clean read on what a light load does to EV towing range.

  • ~1,320 round-trip miles
  • 0 / 1 trailers out / back
  • RAN charging, nearly all the way
  • ~240 mi est. tow range home
Why we log this one

A second trailer, on the same truck, for a clean comparison

Every other tow on this site is the 6,000-pound Airstream. This run flips it: the Rivian R1T drives to Utah empty, then comes home pulling a 2025 Ducati on a rented U-Haul motorcycle trailer, maybe a thousand pounds all in. Same truck, same I-15, a fraction of the load. That makes the return leg a controlled read on what trailer weight actually costs an EV, and the outbound a clean baseline for unladen R1T efficiency. We track everything the way we did San Diego to Chicago: charge by charge, elevation, wind, and temperature.

See how the Airstream version reads in the 6,000-mile reality check and the rig-wide towing data.

What we're fetching

2025 Ducati Panigale V4 Tricolore

Bought on Bring a Trailer · waiting in Alpine, Utah

The reason for the miles. It comes home on a U-Haul trailer behind the Rivian, which is the whole point of logging the run: a real number for what a light trailer does to EV range, next to the Airstream tow data.

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