Honestly, Scalextic had this licked years ago. Tiny battery to get you to the nearest major road, drop the brushes and boom, you're off.
The only spanner in the works being a build up of carpet fluff
Polestar 3 is 2200kg braked towing weight and 111kwh battery so might be a good towing option.. tow bars are manufacturer fitted option £1200 for a fully electric tow bar..
Indeed...the one that looks the most impressive looks to be the BMW X5 plug-in, as it pairs a good towing capacity with a fairly decent electric only range, but they are expensive. She also is quite taken with having a nicer interior, but as I pointed out, she will trash it within about 30 seconds by filling it with hay bales or whatever.
I think current horse is about 600Kgs and the trailer maybe 900kgs. How far depends; she doesn't do it often at the moment as her current horse is pretty much retired. But she has another one who she might eventually want to take to shows and course events, etc. It may be that she never has to tow far enough for it to be an issue; so I'm just planning for the worst case to be honest.
It's a nice car and there are quite a few others which are similar, iX, Q6, Macan, EV9. The issue is that they all are expensive. Other than the iX, there isn't a used market for any of those vehicles yet because they are too new.
It's not so much a huge cost saving exercise; we have to accept that if we want to run a big car for towing, that it's inevitably going to be expensive. It's just that whilst the current car is fine, I feel it's a bit wasteful. It's great for towing and carting stuff around, but it spends most of it's time doing shorter trips, and not very efficiently. I sometimes drive it into town to grab shopping or whatever and find myself thinking how much nicer it would be (for me and everyone around me) to do it under electric power....quieter, cleaner, no worries about mechanical sympathy and engines not even getting warm, etc. And probably would be more cheaper on fuel (even though I realise that's not really an overall cost saving when you consider purchasing, deprecation, etc). But it's still nice - so in my mind, if when we come to change the car, we can get into a suitable PHEV, that would be the more elegant one-car solution.
Worth being aware that charging at public chargers when towing I think continues to be a right royal pain. I tow my race car around the country (trailer 300kgs, car is 600kgs) and none of the smaller tracks I go to have charging options so I'd be charging at public chargers. None that I have seen have enough space for a car + trailer (I've been keeping a look out particularly ), so you'd have to find a place to park the horsebox, unhitch, then go and charge. At many motorway services you can't get back to the chargers from the caravan parking bit as its one way only. Its the reason I'm sticking with an ICE for the moment as my tow car.
www.ospreycharging.co.uk
I usually just skip caravan parking and just park next to the chargers, assuming there is no height or width restrictions which there usually isn't because they need to let vans and other large vehicles in.
I am no expert despite having an EV for over 18 months having only charged publicly 4 or 5 times however at Cambridge service station when busy they have a person out there directing people to chargers however at Tesla chargers at trentham gardens it was pot luck jump in when you can and there was a certain amount of chuntering going on (because half the stalls (all the v4s) were not working despite being online on the app as well as 3 non TeslaEVs.taking up 6 V3 charging bays.
