Electric Tow Vehicles - Getting close
Used to be a guy on the forum towing a tear drop with a tesla but really not suitable for the vast majority of RVers. We had a young family camp next to us this weekend and something didn't look rig...
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I think we have learned a few things about the EV hype over the past few years. They aren't cheaper - in up front cost, lifecycle battery changes, and charging on the road, they aren't green - the caustic chemicals to produce them, the ecological damage from mining raw materials, the source of the electricity to charge them, infrastructure still needs a lot of work, and while they are good at producing power they aren't really great at producing good working power like RVing for the length of time required. I think the government shoved EVs down our throats under the guise of being good stewards of the Earth and a few folks became wealthy as a result. Sales have started to decline and we've already seen major manufacturers shift EV production back to gas and diesel. I'll take a diesel any day, in power production and efficiency.
90% of what you mention will happen anyway weather we use electric or gas vehicles.
I think electric vehicles are the way to go for any application except towing or hauling but they do have a couple hurdles. charging speed the biggest one, apparently ford has a patent for a new charge system that will charge your ev from 20% to full in 5 min. that would be a game changer if it works, and the biggest issue of course is the price compared to the equivalent gas powered car.
I am interested to see what happens with the talks in China right now, hopefully they remove the tariffs off of BYD and a couple other electric car makers, there premium BYD HAN has a 375+ mile range, awd, luxury interior, blows tesla out of the water with fit and finish and quality. for me to buy this in Canada, if it was not terrified at 100% is under 30K CDN so about 24K US .
that is ny issue with the tariffs, not talking about the ones trump has done, but tariffs in general, they use them as protection for local companies who were powerful enough to lobby the government into placing them. this means they don't have to be as efficient, don't have to make as good as a product, and don't have to worry about competing on price point. so ya if you want inferior vehicles at more cost, use tariffs to help make them I guess.
