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Colorado Teardrops camping trailer includes a battery pack to extend EV towing range
EVs have many advantages over legacy vehicles, but towing capacity is not (yet) one of them. When John Voelcker recently tested the new Ford Lightning F-150 for Charged, he confirmed that towing a sizable trailer can cut the vehicle’s range in half.
Of course, a fossil fuel pickup will also take a huge range hit when towing, but you can always add an auxiliary gas tank. What if you could do something similar with an EV by adding a battery pack to the trailer? Colorado Teardrops, a manufacturer of high-end camper trailers, is doing just that.
The company is building a new line of trailers—the Boulder, the Golden and the Denver—that will not only use aerodynamics to minimize air resistance, but will incorporate battery packs with capacities ranging from 75 kWh to 200 kWh.
Read the whole story on chargedevs.com