Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I really want a 2" receiver hitch for my wife's Camry hybrid. There is one company that makes a 2" hitch for my Prius, but her car is better to take road trips with. And she's the one with the heavy ebike and who likes to travel to rail trails.
Apparently the same company that makes 2" receivers for the Prius will do custom hitches for other cars, but I'm afraid to ask what the price is given that the Prius hitch is almost $500. My other thought is getting a 1 1/4" hitch and having a local welder put a 2" receiver on it. There is no way I'm putting that ebike on a trunk mounted rack.
....I don't have much in the way of an answer, but when I first got an electric car, I noticed right away that there were zero options for towing a small trailer. I don't know why the manufacturers decided to eliminate this common aspect of American life, but for people who have always had small utility trailers as a workaround to owning a separate (and infrequently used) pickup truck, it seems short sighted. It appears to have some relationship to the design of them, and worrying about the people who will not read the weight limitations for towing, that come with your car.
This is why we can't have nice things.