Dodge all in on electric too 500 mile range Ram

Reisender wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

Reisender wrote:
I can’t see the need for a fast charge station in an RV park. Fast chargers are needed for road trips. People are usually in a park for a day or more.

Jmho.

Full timers...parking for a day or more is very much true but even there if it's a 30amp site, they may struggle to refill the battery bank...particularly if they take the truck out sight seeing during the off day.

Working stiffs with a week off frequently drive 500-750 miles and get up the next day to do it again...think a Chicago area family doing a week in Florida.

Yah that wouldn’t work for sure on a 30 amp site. Even on a fifty amp site an overnight charge would be marginal on a truck battery. I suppose the alternative there would be to either charge before shutting it down for the day or go to a fast charger in the morning.

If it was me in that kind of a regular use situation I would probably go with a diesel with those kind of distances. Our coach had a huge tank. Our old powerstroke could go a long ways on a tank. Great truck. Then again a long day for us was like 600 kilometres soooo. :).

Cheers.

Sure, we could get away with a 500mile range as we like to keep travel days down around 100-200 miles and usually do not travel multiple days in a row.

But we also recognize that we are far from the typical RVer, so if this discussion is about changes to the larger RV world, even a 500mile range truck (not towing) is going to have a very limited market as an RV tow vehicle.