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Not at all well. For obvious reasons, dc charging at hundreds of volts is blocked by safeties. Hooking the 12v together could work to charge the dead 12v but doesn't charge the hv battery. You could plug in a charger to a 2kw inverter. Fastest way by far is a tow. Use regenerative braking on dead car and it charges fast. Something like 10km of range for every km towed.
Not to mention the potential ridiculous currents. We've all seen how hot 12v jumper cables can get, scale that up to hundreds of volts and thousands of cells in parallel and it gets dangerous.
It takes just as long or longer for that last 20% as it does the first 80%. Sure you can add 30% more stops if you want. Now you're up to 10+ stops of around an hour. So you'll save 2 hours and some battery life (it harms them mildly every time you fill them to full capacity) but you'll be that much more annoyed. Like I said we stop 4 times for 15-20 minutes apiece in my truck for that trip down to the states, just long enough to get a bathroom break, snacks or meal, some fresh diesel and the last stop is semi-optional, more for convenience than anything else. We arrive at the rental house with all the fuel we'll need during the week if we take the truck in for supplies and the occasional restaurant trip. Still not comparable even though we're towing much more, carrying three extra goons and extra bikes.
I don't see any glitch or issue in the not a story here. He installed the correct charger for his needs and everything works well with no issues.
My trailer with five bikes and beer/gear in it is about 7,000lbs loaded. As I pointed out above, it has the underpinnings to carry 6,000lbs of load which means I could put a light duty truck in it (and the previous owner did). A sixth bike doesn't seem to add much to the mileage requirement.
My experience with enclosed trailers is highway mileage is not affected much by weight. You aren't using a ton of hp accelerating the weight and aero drag on the highway is huge. When I used to pull trailers for a buddy, his tandem enclosed snowmobile trailer took far more gas to pull than a tandem axle dump trailer that was probably 4x the weight. I am actually surprised that some manufacturer or vendor hasn't sold tail flaps or tents to make the back of the recreational trailer a cone. On one trip, you may save enough fuel to pay for the device. Only set it up for long runs as it isn't worth the time on a short pull. They have them for tractor trailers.
If you want to get JT's attention, a bunch of white guys is not going to cut it.
Those guys are sadly entrenched with the 50% of US Buick dealers that decided to close instead of selling ev's, 50% of Ford dealers opted out of ev's, etc. Like soccer players throwing a tantrum when they dont get to do exactly what they want, when they want.
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