Looks cool, but first?
“It’s part of Americana. One in 10 American families owns an RV,” Kraus said.
That must include people who live in trailers. No damn way that many people own RVs.
Maybe one in 10 dream of owning an RV lol
Because that’s me. I’d love to have a solar-charged EV-RV and just van-life life it across North America in my retirement years.
I mean yeah I get it. Then I think of the reality, which is cramming it into KOA parking spots and watching kids ride bikes around the parking lot.
If you can go off grid, you can stay in a lot of national forests for 14 days. Big campgrounds, and especially private campgrounds, really don’t do it for me.
A quick search says it’s more like 8-10 million total, so closer to 1/40 people. Avg household size of 2.5 gets that to 1/16 households.
150-180k, yep definitely going to get mass adoption
That’s pretty typical for a large RV. They aren’t mass market items
Lightship is manufacturing the country’s first self-propelled towable RV in Broomfield.
Wait… What? Now I have no idea what were looking at.
From the article:
"We really are developing what I would consider a new class of vehicle," Kraus said. "We do something that's a little bit wild, which is we actually put a motor in the vehicle. So even though it's towed, it's also self-propelling. It's supporting its own drag and its own mass."It would also do regenerative braking. I’ve wanted to do the same for a bike trailer, but there is no regulation anywhere that would call it a legal vehicle/combo. Regulations tend to be based on “this is a legal vehicle that is allowed to be on this road” Technically, all motor standup scooters are illegal everywhere that is a public road.
Yeah, this stumped me too. FWIW, their website is garbage. But digging around a bit, I’d say this is a travel trailer, not an RV. It does have it’s own motor however, and it helps push when you’re going uphill. So in theory, you could tow a larger trailer with a smaller vehicle. Or perhaps this would help if you were towing with an EV and needed the additional range?
That makes some sense. I get it now. Thank you
Really? We’ve had electric cars for 15 years but we never bothered to build an electric RV? I find that suspicious and false.
Probably range-based. A pure electric RV probably would’ve had <100 miles of charge even 5 years ago.
It’d also be murderously heavy if it had any serious range. And one of the primary points of an RV is to have serious range.
I’d also expect they need standby power capacity to run AC/electrical devices overnight in a way a sedan doesn’t.
This is one of the reasons RVs have serious range. That’s just another way of saying they have a ton of extra power/reserves, by design.
