So far so good, except that, with the car and caravan separated, two things occurred to me. First, without a hitch lock securing it, the caravan was at risk of being stolen; and second, I had arrived by a one-way road used by HGVs and there was no road for going back to the car park.
I asked the cashier at the HGV fuel station what to do. “Drive back the way you came,” he said. “If you’re careful, you’ll avoid a truck.”
I took his advice and, cautiously negotiating a blind bend out of the lorry area, drove to the car park. The Enyaq has a CCS charging port, so I was able to hook up to a 120kW Gridserve charger. At this point, the battery was reading 19%, but after 30 minutes and an infusion of 22.40kWh costing £13.36, it was up to 50%. This restored the car’s range to 129 miles. That was enough, I decided, especially with the Discovery out of sight and unsecured.
I returned to the caravan, hitched up and headed on to the campsite, just four miles away, to relax in the caravan’s well-appointed interior.
Later, back at Bailey, I did the sums. Over the course of 60 miles towing the caravan, the Enyaq had returned 2.0mpkWh. Multiplying this by the usable battery capacity gave a range when towing of 154 miles, or around 55% of the 277-mile range that I could expect to achieve when driving the Enyaq without the caravan.