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A couple of years ago, I wrote an article titled “We May Have Been Wrong To Mock GM’s Big Battery Approach To Electric Trucks.” Back then, it was incredibly easy to point and laugh at vehicles like the Hummer EV for carrying around absurdly massive battery packs just to go to the grocery store. But as I started to look at the realities of towing with an electric vehicle, it became clear that dragging a huge battery around was going to be the only way to make the physics work.
Now, I have 9,000 miles of proof that I was right, and proof that electric RVing is actually a good experience.
This wasn’t a bunch of local trips, nor was it a trip along carefully-chosen highways with better than average infrastructure. We hauled a travel trailer from New Mexico to California, back up through the mountains of Arizona, along the rest of Route 66 to Chicago, out to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and all the way back home via the South. We traveled through 21 states. We visited 7 national parks and several national monuments, seashores, and lakeshores. We visited dozens of charging stations from every major charging provider. We saw the lights of several top US cities along with dark skies where we saw the Milky Way over deserts and oceans.
