Electric Tow Vehicles - Getting close

 Almost no one is towing 10k lb trailers with 1/2 ton ICE because even though they have the tow rating, everything else is overloaded. So we set at the beginning of the thread a more realistic assumption.

you haven't been to our trailer section or tow vehicle section lately 🤣

I had a 8000ish lb trailer before the 5th wheel and had a 1/2 ton, I did one trip and went to a 3/4 ton diesel.  now one thing I will say is that I don't live in flat lands, I live in a Provence that is all mountains and that may influence what I see up here.  1/2 tones are for tent trailers and very small trailers.  you also don't see as many 1/2 tons on the road and 1 tones and you don't see 3/4 ton trucks very much because they are the same price as the 1 ton because they have the luxury tax

The F150EV was not the one suggested as getting close, so to rule out EV trucks as viable is like saying you can't pull a 16k 5er with a diesel dually because it would overload a Chevy Colorado.

your confusing me with this, I have no idea what your taking about.  

Everything I've seen suggests 50-60% of the non-towing range. Drastically more than the 1/4 you suggest. This is consistent is also much more consistent with ICE MPG results.

so real world  buddy towing the max load behind his tesla gets approximately 1/4 the range (that is the max rating by tesla.  buddy in his f150 lightning towing a car trailer loaded up with stuff got between 1/4 and 1/3rd his empty range.  I am seeing a pattern from real world towing results.  what would be nice is to have more people with ev's trying to tow the max and see what they get.  and once again what I see might be skewed by the mountains 

Not sure why you brought up tent camping. A 40yr old ICE truck can power a tent for weeks...they don't use electricity, so they can power them forever in principal.

because the ford sales add mentioned it could power the camp site for a long time and I thought it was a cool point, lets see your 40 year old ICE power a 1800 watt hot plate.  I would have loved to have that ability when I was young and tent camping.  could power a heater on cold nights, light, stereo, electric stove and not have to have a small chalet trailer with 10 car batteries in it

With a 220-230 mile range and ability to pick up an extra 100-120miles with a 1/2hr charge pulling a 16-25ft trailer, that's a pretty large selection of RVers where it's technologically feasible if they could get the price down comparable to an ICE.

to me that's still limiting, I can tow my 5th wheel 600miles before I have to get diesel, and to me its not so much about the range but rather the convenience of being able to pick gas stations that are easier to get in and out of, or getting to the camp site then unhooking and going to get diesel.  granted with smaller rv's its not as much of a hassle.  for living out here it still wouldn't be feasible for the majority with that low of a range.  I could see in Eastern USA and California where the population is built up so much there is practically no where that far from a charging station, but up here a lot of time you are going up old forestry roads for 3 or 4 hours just to get to a good lake that isn't over crowded, I guess it would be good for people who camp on the major routes.  another issue I have that made me pass on the ev last summer and buy a newer bronco sport for commuting back and forth to work, is I use it for quick trips all over also, down to the coast or to the nonboring province to see my folks, so down to the coast is a 300km drive (3 to 4 hours depending on traffic)  so do able and you can charge down their.  so basically a 4-5 hour drive down when you include the charging because you can't just leave it plugged in for 4 hours while your down there.  then 3 hours home, that's 7 hours on the road and what ever you do while your down on the coast.  so that adds about an hour to the trip so not to bad as its only 3 to 4 hours driving each way but when I go to my parents its almost 900 km so a 9 hour drive with out stopping, so now your adding two charging stops of about an hour each.  there is a huge difference between a 9 hour drive and a 11 hour drive in one go.  

but I am getting off track here and for the original, I still don't think we are close for them being feasible aside from like what was mentioned close to home small trailers, but I think the best way to go with them would be some sort of tent, weather it is traditional or the roof mount ones you are starting to see all over, those would keep your full range.

what really does have me excited is the progress they have made with H2-ICE engines.  they present a range increase over normal ICE engine because the tanks are pressurized so they have the capability of holding a lot more fuel.