The range game: how viable are EVs at towing?

So far so superior, besides that, with the automobile and caravan separated, two matters occurred to me. To start with, with out a hitch lock securing it, the caravan was at danger of currently being stolen and next, I had arrived by a just one-way highway made use of by HGVs and there was no road for going back to the vehicle park.

I questioned the cashier at the HGV gas station what to do. “Drive again the way you arrived,” he said. “If you’re thorough, you are going to stay clear of a truck.”

I took his advice and, cautiously negotiating a blind bend out of the lorry location, drove to the vehicle park. The Enyaq has a CCS charging port, so I was in a position to hook up to a 120kW Gridserve charger. At this issue, the battery was reading 19%, but immediately after 30 minutes and an infusion of 22.40kWh costing £13.36, it was up to 50%. This restored the car’s variety to 129 miles. That was adequate, I determined, primarily with the Discovery out of sight and unsecured.

I returned to the caravan, hitched up and headed on to the campsite, just 4 miles away, to chill out in the caravan’s well-appointed interior.

Afterwards, again at Bailey, I did the sums. Over the program of 60 miles towing the caravan, the Enyaq had returned 2.0mpkWh. Multiplying this by the usable battery potential gave a range when towing of 154 miles, or all around 55% of the 277-mile array that I could count on to accomplish when driving the Enyaq without having the caravan.