Rivan truck tow vehicle

At least Rivian has put some out there. The Cybertruck is still the magical mystical unicorn.

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.

For local commuting (20-60miles/day), charging is not a big issue. Even with a 15amp household outlet, you can let it trickle charge for 10-16hr at night and should work.

For long distance travel, it's an issue. To some degree it's a question of building more but a high speed charging stall (one stall not the entire station) can run $75-150k. Even with fast charging, you will need 3-4 times as many stalls to service the same number of vehicles due to the time it takes to charge...so the EV equivalent of a small 10 gas pump station, might be $3-4million just for the chargers (the minimarket, drives, etc... are all extra).

If you get into larger stations or remote non-urban stations, the prices can increase exponentially as the power grid feeding them needs to be upgraded up stream.

Also, expect high speed charging station costs to increase dramatically once the govt gets out of the subsidy business.

Towing with an EV is mostly a demonstration project.

I'm sure the Rivian is a phenomenal vehicle, but after dropping 80K+ on a tow vehicle, I certainly don't want the ability to find charging stations to become 'a bit of a challenge'.

Yup, I'm old fashioned, and prefer to pull up to a pump at the station of my choice, pretty much regardless of where I am.

Some day (but who knows how soon) the challenge of finding charging facilities for any electric vehicle will be but a memory.