Dodge all in on electric too 500 mile range Ram

valhalla360 wrote:

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.

Yah could be. I’m pretty sure we are probably not in the norms either as when we are touring we like to be on the road at 11 and off the road by 1 or 2. Although I would say there are a lot of weekend campers here that are on the road by 5 on Friday night and setup and camping by 7 with the first beer well on its way to the recycling bin. But we live in a place where if you travel two hours you probably passed 20 amazing camping and hiking areas.

But yah. EV tow vehicles will work for a certain crowd. Not everybody.

Cheers.