first commercially available all electric RV

Skibane wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
Seems it would be better to have propane for cooking, hot water, and outdoor grill than electric. Just my thought anyway. I do wonder how long they can withstand rainy or cloudy days. Having propane would allow you to stretch the electric power farther. And personally I prefer parking in the shade, and solar pretty much won't allow you to do that. Parking in full sun in the midwest in the middle of summer would put the AC to the test. :)

If you don't use the air/con or heat, probably indefinitely.

If you need air/con or heat, well, not so great.

What if you need to prepare meals?

The stove is an induction cooktop. That's an energy pig.

What if you need to keep your food from spoiling?

Compressor-driven refrigerators aren't exactly power-misers.

According to the website, the base model is 7kwh (7000w-hr) battery bank and 600w solar.

If you are doing long 6-8hr slow simmering meals, it could be a bit of a problem.

Assuming the stove uses 1500w for an hour on high (longer than it typically takes us to make most meals, that's pretty viable with a 7000w-hr battery bank. The 600w solar system should put back in around 2400w-hr per day.

Our 12v fridge pulls around 60w on a 50% duty cycle in comfortable conditions, so around 720w-hr per day.

It's when it gets hot or cold that battery power becomes problematic. An air/con pulling 1200w with a 50% duty cycle is going to pull 14,400w-hr per day. Assuming they are heating with a heat pump, expect similar consumption. So it would need a substantial upsizing to the battery bank and solar array to keep up or they need to undersize it but then the duty cycle goes up. If it's small and insulated far better than I expect, it might be possible but you will always have to be watching the batteries so you don't run them dead.

Run of the mill RV's are already going electric except the stove and furnace. Even a lot of them are coming standard with 12v fridges now.