Any electric vehicles out there that can be

steved28 wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:

CoeyCoey wrote:
What I want is an EV that can be towed, and then the regenerative braking power goes into the car battery and house batteries. Also, you could use the EV as an extra battery back for electricity when boon docking.

The only flaw in your plan is that pesky law of physics known as the law of conservation of energy. Simply put, energy cannot be created. The energy you would put into the batteries would come from increased loads on the tow vehicle. Any savings in costs of recharging from a traditional plug connection would be more than offset by decreased fuel economy in the motorhome.

With one exception. The idea behind regen braking is to use energy that would be otherwise turned into heat in the pads etc. So if the toad has a braking system, and you utilized the regen braking only when you are actually braking, then you could recover energy that would have otherwise been used to heat the pads.

Yes, thank you for understanding this concept. I am in awe that some people think you would charge the batteries when driving and not braking. That makes zero sense. You only want to charge when needing to brake. Going down a few mountains would add a lot of energy to the batteries. You wouldn't want to try and charge the batteries full because then they won't regen when you needed to brake.

Sometimes when you think something is obvious as hell...