The gear that earns a permanent spot in the car after enough road trips with kids — plus the few things that actually change when the vehicle is an EV.
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EVs make excellent road-trip vehicles when time doesn’t matter. When it does — with kids, school breaks, and a destination to hit — the math changes around the 5-hour mark. Here’s the real range data, the real cost-per-mile numbers, and where the trade-off actually lands.
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I started looking at an electric RV trailer because I own an electric SUV and the idea made sense after watching a real well-done YouTube video. Then I started reading specifications, and the enthusiasm ran into arithmetic. Most electric vehicles cannot tow these trailers. Not most crossovers, not most three-row SUVs, and not even every
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Towing a travel trailer seems a little worrisome. The largest thing I have ever towed is a small rental trailer. I have spent the past several weeks researching six-figure electric campers, and at some point a specific fear took hold. The fear is not scratching a fender. It is loading a trailer wrong, feeling it
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The Trailer I Want Is Not the Trailer I Would Buy I have now spent a considerable amount of time with the specifications for all three of these trailers. If you asked me which trailer I find most appealing on paper, the answer is the Evotrex PG5, and it is not close. It generates its
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What the Evotrex PG5 Actually Is The Evotrex PG5 gets grouped with the electric trailers, and it does not belong there. Evotrex says as much in its own specifications. The PG5 is a plug-in hybrid. Every version carries a 43-kilowatt-hour battery and a 75-kilowatt gasoline generator with its own fuel tank. The fully loaded PG5
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The most interesting engineering in the category Most travel trailers are boxes. They push a wall of air down the highway and your fuel economy or your battery range pays for it. Lightship built the AE.1 around the opposite premise, which is that if you solve aerodynamics first, everything else gets easier. The trailer travels
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The Pebble Flow – one of the few that talk about the tongue weight The Pebble Flow tells you straight up the tongue weight on this bad boy. That is what you need to know first. Yet, every electric travel trailer on the market right now leads with the same pitch. It generates its own
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Two electric SUVs landed within months of each other at nearly the same price, and they are asking you to do completely different things. The Rivian R2 Performance Launch Edition starts at $57,990. The Tesla Model Y L Launch Series starts at $61,990. Add the two options I would choose on the Rivian—Midnight paint and
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Let’s preface this by saying I don’t know when I will get my Rivian R2. It may be in two months or in another year. But, let’s assume that I am one of the early preorders and should get mine by June or July if I desired. Like many reservation holders, I’ve been debating a
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