If you've been thinking about buying an electric powered vehicle, and also have dreams of RVing, please read this MotorTrend road test of the Ford F-150 Platinum model top-of-the-line electric pickup pulling various sized RV trailers. At no time soon will electric vehicles be RV-compatible, a key quote.
With only a driver aboard and no trailer in tow, the Platinum achieved a MotorTrend Road-Trip Range of 255 miles. We had been warned to expect the range to be cut in half when towing, but the effect of towing these travel trailers proved even more significant. With the smallest and lightest trailer, we measured a range of just 115 miles. That figure fell to 100 miles with the middleweight camper and sank to a mere 90 miles with the 7,218-pound Grand Design trailer.
To drive back and forth to work and charge it up in your garage every night, an electric may be just fine. To do around-town errands ditto.
To get out and see our beautiful, huge country, forget it. For that you need at minimum a hybrid, and if RVing, a solely-petroleum-powered vehicle of considerable heft.
My personal choice is a Ford F-350 diesel pickup truck, which admittedly isn't convenient in city traffic and tight parking spots. The other DrC and I have driven it, and its predecessors all over North America.
We've RVed wheels-on-the-ground in Fairbanks AK, San Diego CA, Nogales AZ, Corpus Christie TX, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Key West, FL, and everywhere in-between. That's 49 mainland states, and all 9 of Canada's mainland provinces (it is technically possible to drive to the tenth - Labrador - but we've not done it).
