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 right about the GMC truck. Finally wandered past and saw the badge indicating it's an EV. Wound up chatting with the guy later and then looked it up online. 

Cost isn't there yet. It starts at $100k (didn't ask him about cost). While a tricked out diesel dually can run in the same price range, the payload is only 1500lb, so realistic towing is probably around 7,000lb (tow rating is 10,000lb but that will result in an 1100-1200lb hitch weight, so unlikely to stay within payload once you load the family and stuff in the truck bed). You can get an ICE that happily pulls 7,000lb starting around $40k.

He was pulling trailer that was probably around 5,000lb. I asked him about range and in the midwest, he said he gets about 220-230miles on a full charge. If he stops at a fast charger, he can add an extra 120miles in a half hour.

Horsepower & torque are crazy off the charts, so not an issue but that never was an issue towing with an EV.

That sounds like covering 300+miles in a day as fairly reasonable to me. I'd need to stop and fill up to cover 300miles with my gas truck, so I'm losing 10-15minutes anyway...minor inconvenience but not a deal breaker unless you do a lot of high milage days.

If you have a 50amp campsite (and offer to pay for the extra kwh), you could be at or near full charge by the next morning, so back to back 300mile days are possible.

Still some limitations but for a lot of weekend warriors, this could work if they get the price more reasonable.