If you look back through history at the introduction of ICE cars, when they first started to appear there were no fuel stations and they were very unreliable, and would have been no good at towing
Does this sound familiar? Well partly so , because present day EV’s are proving to be highly reliable.
The fact is it takes time for a new technology to be accepted and to develop the necessary infrastructure to make its use feasible and practical. It also takes time for common usage patterns to establish which informs energy suppliers on how best to provide access to refuel or recharging facilities.
I think it would be foolish to suggest that we could all change overnight to running EV’s, it's going to be a progressive change and I expect it will take a couple of decades for us to reach 75% or more EV vehicles on the road.
EV’s aren't new. Some of the earliest cars were EV’s, but it would be totally inappropriate to equate today’s EV’s with the earliest ones as, control systems and batteries have gone through a century of development all-be-it in different fields of application such as industry, and now there is a massive investment in their development and reapplication to transport.
We have seen modern EV’s with supercar performance which has helped plant seeds of the dream, now it’s time for manufacturers to stop showboating, and to produce effective family transport, and for energy suppliers to put in place simple effective charging solutions.
I always felt we lost something when electric milk floats and bread vans stopped being used, because they typified an excellent usage of electric propulsion, local, stop start, very quiet (except for the delivery man’s blasted whistling at 6.00am!) for what is now known as “last mile deliveries”
Some manufacturers are now building electric local delivery vans. Some councils and businesses are going or EV’s for their local use fleet vehicles.
Batteries especially are going to continue to improve, and when we can get an EV with a 300+ mile range, and have chargers that can pump in 350kW then the whole concept of living with an EV will become far more practical.
As for caravanners, Present day towing with EV’s is difficult. Most ev’s are designed for maximum efficiency with clever aerodynamics and running solo. Couple a caravan and your adding a significant additional weight, and severely compromising the aerodynamic efficiency. There is a blog on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVSHIZihESk
where an american site is trying to use a Tesla Model X to tow a large trailer. You may be interested to watch it.