Pebble has answered its most common customer question — what’s the smallest vehicle that can tow the Flow electric travel trailer — with a MINI Cooper-sized electric pickup.
The company posted photos of TELO’s MT1 electric truck pulling its full-size, 5,800-lb Flow trailer, a pairing made possible by the Flow’s own active propulsion system.
The smallest truck pulling a full-size trailer
Pebble says it’s “frequently asked: what’s the smallest vehicle that can tow a Pebble Flow?” Its answer is the TELO MT1, a compact electric pickup that measures just 152 inches long — shorter than a two-door MINI Cooper while packing the bed length and interior room of a Toyota Tacoma.
At a dry weight of 5,800 pounds, the Flow is a full-size travel trailer that would normally demand a full-size SUV or half-ton pickup to tow. Pebble says the MT1 “had no problem pulling our full-size travel trailer” because the trailer isn’t a dead weight behind the truck.
The reason is Easy Tow, Pebble’s active tow assist system. The Flow’s dual-motor drivetrain and regenerative braking reduce the effective load the tow vehicle feels, so a smaller truck can handle a trailer well above what its own tow rating would suggest.
How Easy Tow changes the math
The Pebble Flow is unlike a conventional travel trailer. It carries a 45 kWh LFP battery, a 1 kW rooftop solar array, and a powered dual-motor axle on the Magic Pack trim that actively pushes the trailer along rather than letting it drag.
Pebble’s own figures show the effect. At a steady 55 mph, the Flow returns 1.4 miles per kWh from the tow vehicle without propulsion assist — and 1.8 miles per kWh with active propulsion engaged, a roughly 29% efficiency gain. Combined with a claimed 300% aerodynamic improvement over a traditional box trailer, the drag penalty that usually cripples EV towing range is dramatically reduced.
That’s the whole pitch: pair two electric vehicles that each solve half of the towing problem. The MT1 supplies the hitch and the driver-facing capability, while the Flow supplies much of its own motive power.
Two EV startups, one demo
The stunt is also a neat marketing crossover between two of the more interesting EV startups building outside the mainstream automakers.
TELO, founded by veterans of the auto and tech industries, is targeting late-2026 low-volume production of the MT1. The dual-motor AWD version produces 500 horsepower, hits 60 mph in about four seconds, and offers 260 miles of range from a 77 kWh pack or 350-plus miles from a 106 kWh pack. Telo recently confirmed 400 kW sustained charging for the truck, and pricing starts around $41,520.
Pebble, staffed by former Apple and Tesla engineers, began deliveries of the Flow in 2025 and has since started shipping its more attainable Magic Pack trim at $139,500, with a base model expected below $115,000 in late 2026 or early 2027. Both trims include the dual-motor Easy Tow powertrain and the automated Magic Hitch.
Neither vehicle is a mass-market product yet, but the demo makes a real point about where electric towing is headed — one worth watching alongside the rest of the electric RV segment.
Electrek’s Take
The single biggest objection to towing with an EV is range collapse — hook up a big trailer and your range can fall by half. Pebble’s approach flips the problem by making the trailer contribute its own power and slashing its aerodynamic drag, and the TELO pairing is the most vivid proof of concept yet.
The caveat, as always, is that “the smallest truck that can tow a Flow” is doing some marketing work. A powered trailer that reduces the load on the tow vehicle is genuinely useful, but it also means you’re now maintaining and charging two battery systems, and the combined price of an MT1 plus a Magic Pack Flow is north of $180,000. This is a demonstration of what’s technically possible, not exactly a budget camping setup.
Still, the direction is right. If active propulsion becomes standard on electric trailers, it could unlock towing for a whole class of smaller, more efficient EVs that buyers would never consider tow vehicles today. That’s a bigger deal for EV adoption than the tiny-truck novelty suggests. The question is whether Pebble can get the Flow’s price down far enough for any of it to matter at scale.
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