Will Your Next Tow Vehicle be Electric?

thomas201 wrote:
Do any of you actually tow with an EV? How do you jockey the camper into the charger? Almost (all so far) seem to be built as a pull in back out affair, so the 100-150 mile days make sense, because you charge only at the campground. The alternative would to be drop, then go charge.

My takeaway from the OP, is that towing cuts your range for EV or ICE by about 40 to 50 percent. Sounds like the real world to me, so the EV problem is still the battery, just like 1900.

By the way, I don't hate EVs, I drove a shuttle car in an underground coal mine in the late 1970's to pay for college. It had both battery and a self recovering shore power line. I believe in matching a tool to a job, and for cross country towing EVs are not there yet.

EVs need a battery breakthrough like horizontal drilling, with slick water fracturing for the oilfield, or the jet engine for airplanes, or the smallpox vaccination. Predicting these types of breakthroughs is not possible. Until then we have to wait.

I have no real world experience towing with an EV. I do see newer DCFC stations being set up for towing though. Not all of them and not the ones that are going in at gas stations down town but some that are on highway routes are more oriented to a towing situation. I wouldn’t want to be towing any longer than maybe a 24 foot trailer though. I have some pictures somewhere of a new one about 20 minutes from here that shows the pull through type setup. I’ll see if I can find them. I noticed that some Superchargers seem to have the odd stall with towing in mind. Like anything else. It’ll take awhile to evolve.