Rivan truck tow vehicle

Bionic Man wrote:

Reisender wrote:
Just a heads up re charging stations. No one actually has to “look for a charge station”. The truck knows where they are and all the driver does is select the station he wants to go to and it will navigate there. The driver will know things like,

Wether the station is occupied or not,
What the power is
What the vehicles battery level will be when he/she arrives
What amenities are in the area etc etc.
What the reviews are.
What method of payment will be required.

In the case of some manufacturers the driver just selects the final destination of the trip and the vehicle figures out all the stops along the way. It will compensate for wind, temperature, elevation change etc. it’s pretty accurate. It will also compensate for trailer load, but at least with our EV it takes 10 or 15 minutes of travelling with the trailer load to come up with a more accurate estimate.

As well there are about a half dozen apps that will do most of the above.

Hope that was informative.

Safe travels all.

Have you been successful finding charge stations that were accommodating to a vehicle and large trailer? From what I have seen, that is where it would be more challenging.

And, cards on the table, I have concluded I will be a late adopter to electric vehicle technology.

Large trailer? Hmmm. I would say the vast majority of the stations we have used would not be accommodating to a large trailer. There have been a few BC Hydro and FLO chargers that were more of a parallel park sceenario that would probably work but certainly none of the Superchargers. Some have trailer stalls that are ok for something like our 18 footer or maybe a little bigger.

I know Tesla is building pull thrus on some of their supercharger sites now. I’m sure that will get common.

We have only had to disconnect once to charge. That was at a mall in Airdrie Alberta. There’s always a way.

Hope that helps.