How long do you drive/tow in a day?

valhalla360 wrote:

Reisender wrote:
I can see from the reply’s that many here won’t have a problem adapting to RVing with an EV 1/2 ton towing a suitable trailer. Many seem laid back with their travels. And those only travelling a few hundred kilometers a day wouldn’t even have to stop to charge. Very occasionally we dead head 500 or 600 kilometers or maybe a little more. But most of the time we are just touring and enjoying the various parks and attractions. We would love to take a month and take the ocean side route from Vancouver to San Diego again. Maybe in a couple or three years.

250-300mile range in a very aerodynamically slippery small car vs a brick is going to cap the range at around 100miles or less.

Scale that up to a truck where it might have a 200kwh battery bank to get 100 mile range towing and it starts becoming a problem. With a small trailer on a 30amp site, you might have 1-2kw available for charging...that's 100-200hr to charge at the campground. Even if you talk your way into an 18ft trailer in a 50amp site and pull 9kw, it's still 22hr, so back to back driving days become problematic. You could go into a fast charge station but most aren't set up to accommodate trailers.

EV-RVs are still a long way off.

Hard to say. My guess is a cybertruck will have around 350 to 400 kilometres of towing range pulling a 24 trailer. For those like us and obviously many others that tour camp that would be fine. We rarely just stay one night at a camp ground. So charging at a camp ground would work. And we are noticing more of both DC fast chargers and Tesla Superchargers with one or two stalls set up for trailer towing. It’ll work fine for us. Wife has a cybertruck on order. Have to wait and see if we get it. We are pretty far down the list. Probably a few years before they get to us. :). It’s all good.

People are already RV’ing with EV’s so it’s not a long ways off. It’s here. There are a couple model ‘X s pulling rear drops in our area. I’ve talked to one of them. They toured Vancouver island last summer for 5 weeks. They had no issues. Once the Cybertruck is out it will have a larger impact.

Cheers.