• pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Couldn’t you instead add a massive battery to the trailer and physically connect both it and the trailer to the car. Essentially letting you tow a battery bank with extra storage? Like that you mitigate having to work out the safety issues and you don’t have to pay for another set of motors etc.

    You could upsell it by the trailer being extra battery for when you’re camping f.ex… And it could be modular, accepting a camping to / flatbed/ whatever.

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      1 year ago

      I think the big advantage here is you could rent the doohickey, rather than buying a massive battery bank you’ll only use a few times a year.

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        1 year ago

        why not both? make it a thing you rent when you need it that also extends the range of your EV when you are on a long road trip without making you haul around extra batteries/weight during your normal commute. If they did this with a data cable and a safety cable and allowed the caravan to share power with the tow car I think it’s actually a neat idea