EV Flat Towing Behind an RV: 8 Models Verified Against OEM Instructions

Do not assume an EV can be recreationally flat-towed just because it has Neutral, Tow Mode, Transport Mode, a tow eye or a trailer hitch. For the eight U.S. vehicle/source scopes verified below, the manufacturer does not approve recreational towing with all four wheels rolling on the road.¹²³⁴⁵

This is a verified-rows-only guide, not a claim about every EV on sale. A model that is not listed is not implied to be safe or unsafe to flat-tow; it means this page has not yet verified a current first-party recreational-towing instruction for that exact model/model-year scope.

Verified flat-towing matrix

Flat towing is not the same as transporting a disabled EV

For this page, recreational flat towing / dinghy towing means pulling the EV behind a motorhome with all four vehicle wheels on the road for normal travel.

That is different from:

• winching a disabled EV a few feet onto a flatbed;
• temporarily releasing a parking brake;
• using a manufacturer's Tow/Transport/Emergency Tow mode for loading or recovery;
• using wheel lifts and dollies with the rolling wheels supported;
• hauling the EV on a car trailer with all four wheels off the road;
• using the EV itself to tow a trailer.

Those distinctions matter. Tesla allows only very short, very slow wheel movement in Tow Mode for loading/repositioning while still prohibiting transport with the wheels rolling on the ground.¹ The 2025 Mustang Mach-E is an even clearer example: Ford prohibits recreational four-wheels-down towing but separately allows a bounded emergency procedure up to 35 mph and 50 miles if the vehicle is inoperable and normal transport equipment is unavailable.⁵⁶

Why the model year and source revision matter

Flat-towing guidance is not something to generalize across a brand. This guide records the exact model-year or manual revision that was verified.

The Chevrolet rows above are 2025 rows because the directly inspected 2025 Chevrolet Trailering Guide is the evidence used here.⁴ Chevrolet's current trailering site exposes a separate 2026 guide, which is a reason to reverify rather than automatically copy the 2025 answer forward.⁷

Tesla's reviewed Model Y instruction is a current U.S. online manual page rather than a visibly model-year-pinned document, so this page labels the row that way instead of inventing a year range.¹ Rivian's rows are similarly tied to the reviewed R1 tow-guide revision rather than an invented model-year span.²

Models not yet verified on this page

High-interest expansion targets still needing a directly inspectable, current U.S. recreational-towing instruction include GMC HUMMER EV, Hyundai IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6, and Kia EV6 and EV9. Their absence here is not permission to flat-tow them.

Transport/recovery instructions by themselves are not enough to classify recreational RV towing. Before towing an unlisted vehicle, use the exact U.S. owner's manual for the model year and look specifically for recreational towing, dinghy towing, or the manufacturer-equivalent section. Do not convert a Neutral, flatbed-loading or emergency-recovery procedure into recreational-towing permission.

Update policy

We recheck a row when a new model year launches, an OEM revises its owner/tow/trailering documentation, or a manufacturer explicitly changes a recreational-towing procedure. Software changes to a Tow/Transport/Emergency Tow mode do not count as a recreational-flat-towing change unless the manufacturer says the recreational rule changed too.

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