Electric Car Towing Nightmare 

We made a mistake with swapping to a hybrid, it had 400kg less towing capacity, which meant we couldn't tow our caravan. so we ended up going back to a 4x4 diesel

There is too much rush by governments to force people into buying electric cars. They are fine as a town runabouts if you can charge at home but useless for towing long distances if you have charge on a long journey. Most charging points are in parking bays, so you have to find somewhere to leave the van to go off and charge the car. This is both time consuming and a security risk unless the wife doesn’t mind sitting in the van for two hours twiddling her thumbs.

Hi I've got a new xtrail electric running gear petrol generator Live northeast Scotland very hilly Max towing weight 1800kg Ok ish on the flat hopeless when you get to a hill the petrol engine revs its heart out but cant make enough power for the electric motors Also now know of a week old one returned to dealer would not tow a caravan well under its approved weight stick with a good diesel Electric cars may have a place but not towing

What I don’t understand is the silence from the caravan industry. Electric cars are impractical and both electric and hybrid have poor range, low tow limits. Obviously hybrids return to ICE having depleted the battery with poor power and poor mpg. If the ban goes ahead or is brought forward this will decimate the touring industry. The industry is worth billions to the uk economy and all we get is silence or the CAMC trying to tell us how practical and good electric vehicles are at towing. Tow car of the year, Electric, forget it. It’s a load of rubbish. I don’t want a small 2 seater van that you can’t swing a cat in. I want to continue with comfort and space. We are sleep walking into a nightmare scenario. Imagine the Q’s and problems on the M5 in summer when we all have to charge every 70miles or so. Ridiculous!

I counted over 70 EV’s / variants that have a towing capacity above 1500kg, ability to tow isn’t the problem - range is! I’m afraid the problem is one of caravan design- if people think they are going to redesign EV’s purely for a small market like caravanners they are living in cloud cuckoo land.

Electric car are a now way a tow car. An electric car channel borrowed a caravan and he took it for a tow to see if he could charge his electric car and there was no chance it is just not the way forward for Caravans. And to be fair, electric cars are not the way forward anyway I have a new Mazda the biggest Mazda that they make it is a plug-in hybrid it toes fantastic best and worst of both worlds however they petrol engines and their diesel engine is 25% cleaner than London ULEZ all this is about is making internal combustion engines considerably cleaner and we can do that. Electric engines 70% of the electricity you’re putting into that car is dirty electricity anyway in the UK and that’s before we start talking about cobolt and all that stuff and batteries are really bad. And let’s not get started under the depreciation of an electric car. OMG what a nightmare you buy an electric car you’re keeping it until it dies or you can sell it for a fraction of what you paid for it. James

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You can't squeeze any more power out of fossil fuel, OR batteries, we need some new magic power.

Is the motorhome still for sale? And if so how much?

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All anti-EV Daily Mail FUD

Never had any issues towing with my EV - in fact it tows just as well as my 6.4 v8 jeep SRT.