Three years in the past, Bingrui Yang based Pebble to deliver electrification, automation, and the usability of an iPhone to the RV world. The public received its first glimpse Monday at CES 2025 of what that appears like: a production-ready all-electric journey trailer loaded with tech designed to make towing and tenting stress free.
The 25-foot all-electric RV, often called Pebble Flow, begins at $109,500 and can be constructed on the startup’s new manufacturing unit in Fremont, California. For that worth, prospects get an electrical journey trailer that sleeps as much as 4 individuals and comes normal with a forty five kWh lithium-ion phosphate battery, 1 kW of rooftop photo voltaic, plug-and-play prepared AC and DC charging functionality, and regenerative charging that sends electrons again into the battery whereas it’s being towed. Pebble launched Monday a configurator for future prospects to customise their RV and take a look at choices, specs, and pricing. Orders require a $500 refundable deposit.
Pebble can be providing two different variations, a founders version of the Pebble Flow, which can come loaded with all choices and upgrades, plus the chance to pick a limited-edition colour, at a worth of $175,000. There can be an upgraded $135,000 model that provides a number of options, comparable to a dual-motor drivetrain known as the “magic pack,” which propels the journey trailer whereas it’s being towed. This permits for the EV that’s towing the journey trailer to protect its personal vary. It can even assist enhance the gasoline financial system of a gas-powered automobile.
This energetic propulsion system additionally permits the Pebble to be self-propelled. The firm paired this functionality with sensors and Nvidia’s Drive Orin, which handles the computing energy for notion planning, and management, to supply a number of automated options designed to make towing and establishing the trailer simpler.
Perhaps essentially the most notable is a distant management hitch characteristic, which may be operated through the app. A person faucets the app after which remotely strikes the trailer into place.
All of that is designed to attain Yang’s main imaginative and prescient: To make towing and tenting in a journey trailer straightforward.
“Any newbie that has by no means used an RV earlier than can take a Pebble Flow and simply determine how one can have an excellent time with their household,” Yang stated in a video launched at CES 2025. “We wish to construct a world the place house may be wherever you wish to take it.”
At a look, the production-intent Pebble Flow seems to be just like the prototype revealed in October 2023. However, there are some notable modifications. The kitchen cupboards have been redesigned to flip up fairly than down, the entry door is now larger, and facet and rear home windows have been added. Designers gave the manufacturing model a extra aerodynamic form and added a moon roof over the eating space. The caster wheel was additionally re-engineered, making it extra sturdy and including in an auto-level characteristic to extend floor clearance. Four cameras have been added to assist the automated options.
Many of the modifications had been made after receiving suggestions from 3,000 members of its so-called Pebble neighborhood, which included pre-order prospects, RV and tenting fanatics and notably, “digital nomads.” That subgroup, whereas area of interest, is core to Yang’s imaginative and prescient for the Pebble Flow.
The startup, which has raised $55 million from enterprise companies comparable to Lightspeed, Vision+, and UpHonest Capital, stated manufacturing will start early this yr. First deliveries are anticipated in spring 2025.
