The Tesla Mannequin 3 has a most towing capability of two,200 kilos (nearly 1,000 kilograms), making it appropriate for towing an average-sized camper trailer or a trailer carrying a small boat or a pair of bikes—you get the purpose.

What the Tesla Mannequin 3 wasn’t designed to tow is a 15,000-pound (6,803-kilogram) modular house, so it goes with out saying that individuals should not try one thing like this. Nicely, that hasn’t discouraged the CEO of Boxabl, a housing development expertise firm, from hitching a trailer carrying the Boxabl Casita prefabricated house to a Mannequin 3.

Galiano Tiramani, the founding father of Las Vegas-based Boxabl, shared a video on Twitter displaying a Tesla Mannequin 3 towing a trailer loaded with a Boxabl Casita on the streets of Las Vegas. The loaded trailer weighed a complete of 19,000 kilos (8,618 kilograms), with the Boxabl Casita alone tipping the scales at 15,000 kilos.

This was clearly a publicity stunt, with Tiramani telling Teslarati that he needed to indicate “simply how transportable our room modules are. What higher car to make use of than a Tesla? As anticipated, the Mannequin 3 was superb and simply in a position to tow the 15,000-pound Casita.”

To make this attainable, Tiramani stated his group fitted a tow hitch on the Tesla, including that they had been assured the EV can be sturdy sufficient for the job.

“Though the Tesla Mannequin 3 doesn’t have a tow hitch, we determined to select one up and modify it. We knew that though it is not rated to tow a Casita legally, it could be sturdy sufficient.”

Whereas the video reveals the Mannequin 3 towing the Boxabl Casita on Las Vegas Boulevard in stop-and-go visitors, the stunt additionally included a drag race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway between two Mannequin 3s, every towing a Boxabl Casita. Tiramani claims the Mannequin 3 did the 1/8 mile in 20 seconds towing the tiny home on a trailer.

The Boxabl Casita has partitions, a flooring and roof that fold into one another to type a self-contained transportable unit. The corporate claims the pre-fabricated house may be unpacked and assembled in lower than an hour.

The properties are manufactured on an meeting line much like cars and Tiramani says the corporate’s purpose is to at some point produce one home per minute, similar to Tesla makes one car per minute.