Just for fun - RV's in 30 years...
So, DW and I are about 25-30 years from buying our 'retirement rig.' Last night, that got me thinking. When I think of what our TT has that was not part of trailers 30 years ago (multiple televisi...
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free radical wrote:Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Fuel at $10+ / gallon.
I personally don't see much RVing going on. If there is, it will be vastly different than what we have now or just a few elite doing it.
And before anybody jumps on the "trucks will get better mileage" yada, yada, yada bandwagon, I will say this:
1969 brand new Chevy truck and TT for our family. 350/400/373 12 bolt, life was good. Mileage? 10 MPG over thousands of miles over many years of vacations towing our TT.
Fast forward to 2013. What do the new gasoline trucks get towing? 8 to 10 MPG towing about the same size trailer. :E That is the same or worse we got 40 years ago!
Over 40 years and 0 gain in towing fuel economy does not bode well for RVing when the next fuel price jump comes.
JMHO
these hybrid electric trucks are just what we need,hopefuly the price will drop soon
www.viamotors.com
http://youtu.be/qJJA648cwD8
Sorry but hybrids will do next to nothing for RV's. For short trips like busses and garbage trucks they will work great. Rv's just won't cut it. There is a reason a Prius gets good mileage in start and stop traffic but on the open road not so good.
LI batteries have reached their limit. This means they can't get anymore power out of them or they can't hold anymore power size for size because of physics. Batteries are at their limit. This article takes about how batteries are at their limit and their is no getting better.
Much the same way with ICE's. All the big gains are gone. We went from carbs to TB to bank to bank injection to sequential injection to DI. There is nothing beyond DI and we are now burning 99.?%+ of the fuel that goes into a cylinder. I smogged my Beamer the other day and it has 0 emissions coming out pipe at idle. 0! :E We have used all the energy that is in a gallon of gas. There is no more.
This link will show you how companies like Tesla; aaaaaaaaaa, how do I put this; fudge the truth about electric vehicles.
The bottom line is, it takes a LOT of energy to move a big box down the road. Whether that energy is in batteries or gasoline or diesel or propane or whatever fuel you choose; you will need lots of it. Most of it does not have to do much with weight. Most of the poor mileage Rv's see is because of aerodynamics, so maybe what is old will become new again? Maybe the Hi-Lo will make a big comeback?
