Pebble Flow review: a $159,000 electric RV that feels like a micro-hotel suite

The Pebble Flow, first seen by Engadget colleagues on the CES showfloor in 2024, is designed to simplify RV ownership with integrated solar panels, electric motors and automated hitching. The reviewer and her husband stayed in a trailer with the same layout Pebble has shown before: a front dinette that converts into a bed, and a rear queen-sized Murphy bed that doubles as a desk.

Despite the compact space, the reviewer wrote that two people had plenty of room to stretch out. She spent several hours working from both the dinette table and the dedicated desk. The cushioned bench seats in the kitchen area were more comfortable, but the dinette table was wobbly enough to be distracting. The dedicated desk was simple and functional; it was not quite wide enough for an external monitor to be set up comfortably, but it held a laptop, phones, a camera and chargers, and sat next to a back window that could fully open for air and views.

One of the trailer's most striking features, according to Engadget, is its electrochromic smart glass exterior windows, which change from clear to frosted at the touch of a button. The reviewer called it a useful privacy feature at a shared campsite, though she said the combination of interior LED lights and light-blocking frosted windows could make it hard to tell the time of day. The effect, she wrote, felt a bit like being in a bright, pleasantly lit spaceship.

The bathroom included a flushing toilet and a separate shower stall, which the reviewer described as easily the nicest bathroom setup she had used while camping. The shower was small but heated quickly and had good water pressure. The main drawback was a loud water pump that ran while using the sink or shower and would probably wake anyone else in the trailer during a middle-of-the-night trip.

She slept better than expected. The Murphy bed was surprisingly comfortable, and outlets were easily accessible on both sides. Most of the time, she wrote, the Pebble Flow felt less like a trailer and more like a micro-hotel suite.

The reviewer was even more impressed by how the Flow's technology simplified camping and towing. Each trailer comes with its own iPad Mini that serves as the main controller and hub for climate control, lights and other functions, as well as for automated hitching and remote control. The hitch has a camera that detects the position of the ball on a towing vehicle's hitch. As long as the tow vehicle is within four feet of the front of the trailer, the system can engage a self-hitching mode even if the two vehicles are not perfectly lined up.

Engadget reported that the self-hitching process took about 45 seconds in several demonstrations. With no prior RV experience, the reviewer guided the trailer onto the hitch of a Rivian parked a couple of feet away by pressing a few buttons on the iPad. She also used the same iPad to move the unhitched trailer around its parking spot. She felt comfortable moving it only about a foot in either direction, but watched Pebble representatives use the remote to parallel park it and move it around the mulch-covered ground of the campsite.

Editor's Summary

Engadget's reviewer spent nearly 24 hours in a $159,000 Pebble Flow electric RV at a campsite and found it comfortable for work and sleep, with a full bathroom, smart glass windows and a Murphy bed. The trailer's iPad-based controls managed climate, lights, automated hitching and remote maneuvering, with self-hitching taking about 45 seconds. The review highlighted a micro-hotel feel as well as minor drawbacks such as a wobbly dinette table and a loud water pump.