I need to buy a new car in 2026 (we're a family of five) and would love to buy an EV, but I cannot seem to find one suiting our needs. We drive ~20.000km/y, mostly three different route types. First, 30-50km for day trips to the woods, >300km for weekend trips to grandparents, and >1,000km for holidays with our caravan (trailer) throughout Europe. Anything <10km, we do by bike. Our house has a 13kWp solar installation, with a Type 2 EV charging system in our drive way. The overproduction of this system is ~5.500kWh per year, which we currently feed to the grid.

We currently drive a Diesel Volkswagen Transporter (VW Bus, TDI), consuming 8L/100km for country side trips with bike rack, <10L/100km for highway trips with bike rack, and 12L/100km for highway caravan trips. We use the caravan whenever possible, resulting in ~5.000-7.000km/y. The caravan's max weight is 1.800kg and the car needs to support that towing weight. The VW Bus has a range of ~500km while towing the caravan and for refueling, we always kept the caravan attached, requiring a 10min break for every 6-7h driving.

The problem is the caravan. 1/n