Camping in an EV.... Always charging...

valhalla360 wrote:
Ignoring the chest puffing over what qualifies as camping....
This is an RV site and it is at best marginal to call a pickup with a bed cap an RV and really irrelevant when talking about range. There is nothing camping specific about the setup vs just road tripping and staying in hotels.

So back to the subject, even if we accept it's an RV used for camping, it's still far more challenging to use for the average person with routing often dominated by where the next charging station is and how long you will have to wait.

Once you get into what most people would consider an RV/Camper...it's really not viable. There are rare niche users such as if you are full timing and rarely travel more than 150 miles in a day followed by a day or two plugged in while pulling a teardrop camper, it can be viable but that's a pretty small niche market and even that use case has significant tradeoffs.

For most people, in particular the weekend warriors, it's just not viable to pull 300-400miles in a day having to stop for an hour or more multiple times where you may have to unhook the trailer while keeping the kids occupied during the stops. It simply becomes impractical for most common RV use cases.

More and faster charging stations will help but they are unlikely to ever reach the scope of gas stations as most commuter car charging will always be at home in the garage.

To make it really viable, we are going to need a leap forward in battery technology...I would guess somewhere on the order of twice the energy density of current lithium technology. This is technology, not just cramming more batteries in which would come with weight penalties that create new issues. If you get up around a 200mile range towing and less than an hour to recharge, now a 400mile travel day starts becoming viable without the need to recharge becoming the controlling factor. It would also allow weekend trips without having to muck about with fast charging at all.

Don't disagree, other than being reluctant to pigeon hole what is true camping.:? Range and time to charge are obviously the low hanging fruit of EV disadvantages. Folks adjust for these factors or they don't. Anyway, someone decided to take a road trip in a new type of vehicle and film it. Something about this endeavor has inexplicably enraged OP. He apparently felt compelled to rant in the Tow Vehicle section even though they aren't towing anything. :h