Electric TT

Gdetrailer wrote:

Reisender wrote:

Yah for sure. I was referring more to the nice to have verses need to have campground charging. It’s handy for sure and we do when we can.

Cheer.

The problem is scale.

Small scale like your setup it can be made to work somewhat.

Scale it up 3x or 4x and now it doesn't. Larger loads require larger amounts of energy, larger amounts of energy means shorter distance and/or larger storage batteries.

Larger storage batteries means more weight which reduces range and takes considerably more time to recharge.

At the end of the day, you will find that most RV'rs will plan to fully recharge their EV trucks at the campground overnight for free instead of seeking out a charging station that they will have to pay for and wait an hr for the charge.

EV boondockers would most likely have to drag around a much bigger gen plus fuel just to be able to extract themselves from a deep outback camping trip than what a Honda 2000i could provide..

Who knows. All above my pay grade as I haven’t looked into any of the EV trucks.

There are thousands of EV RVers out there though and we have talked to many. Generally speaking I would say that most are happy to pay a charging surcharge at a campground as long as it has value for convenience. It really hasn’t come up for us yet. We have only hit one campground where they had a 10 dollar charging surcharge and only if we rented a 50 amp site. That night we were around half on the battery so it didn’t make sense. The owner was fine with us charging on a 30 amp site for 10 or 12 hours overnight. Under the right conditions we would certainly pay a surcharge.