Towing a heavy trailer with an electric vehicle can reduce your range by as much as half. California startup Pebble thinks it can improve towing efficiency and reinvent trailering experience with its Pebble Flow, an RV with the soul of an EV that helps pull its own weight, hitch itself up and even power your home.
Beneath its slick, aerodynamic shape, the Flow has a 45 kilowatt-hour battery pack and dual electric motors — one for each of its wheels. Pebble isn’t listing power figures for the motors, but tells us it can help propel the trailer during highway-speed towing to take some of the load off of the host vehicle. The result is a lighter feel when, say, you pull the trailer up a steep incline. You also get improved fuel efficiency if towing with a combustion vehicle and improved range when towing with an electric truck or SUV.
