Out of Spec Review of Pebble from CES

[beatle]

It's really astonishing how much more expensive an EV based RV tow package climbs to. We all love our Rivians, but towing with 250 or 2500 and a "regular" RV could be done for way, way less. Maybe even half. I feel like for you to really get your money's worth out of an RV, you need to do it a loooot, or just have a bank account whose balance doesn't seem to move no matter how hard you try.

I am not an RV person to begin with, but I also think it's a very steep value hill to climb.

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[Donald Stanfield]

It's really astonishing how much more expensive an EV based RV tow package climbs to. We all love our Rivians, but towing with 250 or 2500 and a "regular" RV could be done for way, way less. Maybe even half. I feel like for you to really get your money's worth out of an RV, you need to do it a loooot, or just have a bank account whose balance doesn't seem to move no matter how hard you try.

I am not an RV person to begin with, but I also think it's a very steep value hill to climb.

You're not wrong. The cost of this is hard to reconcile. For the 145K, this costs I can get an F250 diesel AND a nice travel trailer that's bigger, with more features, and put 50K in my pocket. It is cool, and I wouldn't mind one in order to be able to tow with my EV but I'd probably be better off buying a used diesel truck and c camper.

 

[oskeei]

The quality of most pull behind RVs suck. We owned a fiberglass Jayco (suppose to be better quality) and watching the pebble vdo, apples to oranges in seeing the build quality between the Pebble and most of the pull behind RVs. I was told most pull behinds were designed for 20 trips and after that faults were expected. The warranty shows they have more faith in the product.

Unrelated, but I think Pebble is looking to sell to someone. Rivians seems to be a good match but seems irresponsible on Rivians end.

 

[kenyee]

I think they're targeting airstreams which are in the 100-200 range?
The other EV towable RV is the lightship (sp?) and it's in the 200s.

The Pebble docking setup is cool... I'd get one if I were in the airstream market and could afford it ?

 

[KootenayEV]

I didn't think I would sit through the video, but I watched it. I want one of those Pebbles. I have to convince my wife, which will be incredibly difficult. She is dead-set against RVs for some reason.

For mine it was the comfort of having our own space while on the road, not some potentially gross and/or sterile hotel/AirBnB.

 

[KootenayEV]

It's really astonishing how much more expensive an EV based RV tow package climbs to. We all love our Rivians, but towing with 250 or 2500 and a "regular" RV could be done for way, way less. Maybe even half. I feel like for you to really get your money's worth out of an RV, you need to do it a loooot, or just have a bank account whose balance doesn't seem to move no matter how hard you try.

I am not an RV person to begin with, but I also think it's a very steep value hill to climb.

Per my response above to Donald, for us it was the comfort of having our own space while on the road, not some potentially gross and/or sterile hotel/AirBnB. We also do (on purpose since we have it) spend at least 3 weeks a year in it, sometimes up to several. This is while we still have two teens in the house and work F/T. As we transition to P/T in our late 40's/early 50's, I expect this number to go way up since we like spending time in places we visit and have a long list of Canadian and US natural parks we want to visit!

Much like with our truck, we took the long view on cost of ownership and expect it to be lower per night then anything even remotely equivalent (tenting would be cheaper... but we save that for backcountry trips now).

Cheers.

 

[Donald Stanfield]

For mine it was the comfort of having our own space while on the road, not some potentially gross and/or sterile hotel/AirBnB.

That's what I told my wife! Hotel cleanliness has been poor at best, especially after COVID-19. The hotels never improved. I don't mind spending on a nice room, but the only decent ones I have been in over the past couple of years have been 500 a night or over. We stayed somewhere in November; the toilet rocked, there was trash in the trashcan of my son's room, and the carpets were so old they were wrinkled from losing all their tension.

I'm trying to compromise with my wife and bought my own bedding/ mattress topper to bring with.

 

[arbreg17]

Looks like production has begun. I can't afford one, but I'm definitely rooting for them and Lightship to be successful.
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