Issues when moving to all electric towcars

Spot on👍🏻, you are helping dispel some of the myths, like with all new tech-the detractors are always the most vocal. Having someone like you giving real world opinion & help is a refreshing change for many of us. Thanks again🙂

Polestar 2.

Max Gross Weight 2600kg (+100kg  when towing) , Max train weight 4100 giving a max towed weight 1500kg

Bailey Unicorn Vigo MTPLM 1550 with max wight plate upgrade. 

The caravan is at the edge of the cars permissible limit, so careful weighing and loading is needed, but that is of course no different to a fossil fuel car, or indeed just loading a caravan! :-)

CT, I hope you keep us updated with how things go with the car over the coming months.

On 12 March 2021 Mr H wrote:

" I would still prefer a caravan to have the flexibility of going anywhere off site without a major upheaval, and who wants to sit in the same seat in the evening as you have sat all day driving." 

I know this was written more than 3 months ago, but I only just read it and I had to respond.

On the first comment, Mr H has a point. Once I am pitched up I never move my motorhome; he's right that it is an upheaval, if not exactly a major one. It is much quicker to be ready for the road than it is with a caravan. I often think it would be nice to have a car, but I deal with it by using my bike - which helps to keep me fit - and mostly staying near bus stops or rail stations to get further afield. For me it is the price to pay for (a) not wanting the hassle of towing and (b) the speed of pitching up and not needing external tanks (I know some caravans have in built tanks). This is especially as I am on my own. I would not tow a car, because otherwise I might just as well buy a caravan and tow that with my car instead. 

But the second comment literally made me laugh out loud. What the heck difference does it make what seat you sit in. Firstly this implies that motorhomes do not have any other seats; in fact the overwhelming majority do. But secondly, and more importantly, the driver and passenger seats tend to be much better designed - ergonomically - and hence far more comfortable than lounge and dinette seats be they in caravans or motorhomes. When relaxing in my van, I mostly sit in the passenger seat (swivelled around of course). I can recline it and, in my case, it buts up to my settee so I can stretch my legs out.

Surely any thoughts of not wanting to sit in the same seats can only be psychological. I just found that comment hilarious.     

Sounds like it is ok for 140 mile journey if you want to stop to re fuel (re charge). I don’t even consider stoping on a drive that short.  I don’t think it would suit myself for a journey of 320 miles from Preston To Dover to catch a ferry. I would have to have an overnight stop. 

It won’t be for everyone. I don’t stop to charge, I stop because I need a break after 2 to 2 1/2 hours towing depending on terrain. I used to stop after that long pre-EV. 320 miles could be done in my rig in 2 stops, adding around 50 to 90 mins (depending on the speed of the charger) to the journey without stops at all or (for me) adding 10 to 20 mins to the. Stops that I had already planned. So for me a 320 mile journey would take about 7-8 hours with charging, depending on traffic.

140 miles between charges is not bad, in coming years we are likely to see 200 mile +

Unfortunately for me that journey can take between 8 to 10 hours. I have never yet done it without hold ups. M6, M1, M25. You really are lucky if you only get 1 hold up. 

Don’t hold your breath. Land Rover are working on hydrogen power. I will leave it for a while and see how it all goes.

500 miles solo is becoming real on very high end EVs today, that would equate to over 200 miles towing. It will be here a loooong time before hydrogen for personal vehicles (if that ever happens - my bet is it won’t, it’s just too costly).