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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I have to brush away my cynicism for a bit here:
1: If we can get batteries within an order of magnitude of gasoline, or we get a decent hydrogen use/generation/storage process working, this will fundamentally change things. Gasoline engines are even at best nowhere near as efficient as electric motors, so it might balance out. Done right, one could just charge their RV on solar panels, and not worry about what fuel is needed for what.
2: Aerogel insulation gets cheaper and more common. This would allow for very high R-values in small spaces, as well as insulating metal to metal joints between welds.
3: Solar cells get built in intelligent chargers, so something covering one cell in a panel won't cut the whole panel's yield by half.
4: Auto-driving cars will reduce the amount of wrecks on the roads, and allow things like when out at a movie, having the RV drive itself to a propane shop to get refilled.
5: The absorption fridge goes the way of the dodo, replaced by a propane fuel cell, a battery, and a compressor fridge.
6: We will see a move from gasoline to diesel because with fuel getting more expensive, it means that the added expense for a diesel might be more than compensated for the longer fuel life and economy.
7: We will see slide-outs not just for rooms, but for layers of solar panels.
1: If we can get batteries within an order of magnitude of gasoline, or we get a decent hydrogen use/generation/storage process working, this will fundamentally change things. Gasoline engines are even at best nowhere near as efficient as electric motors, so it might balance out. Done right, one could just charge their RV on solar panels, and not worry about what fuel is needed for what.
2: Aerogel insulation gets cheaper and more common. This would allow for very high R-values in small spaces, as well as insulating metal to metal joints between welds.
3: Solar cells get built in intelligent chargers, so something covering one cell in a panel won't cut the whole panel's yield by half.
4: Auto-driving cars will reduce the amount of wrecks on the roads, and allow things like when out at a movie, having the RV drive itself to a propane shop to get refilled.
5: The absorption fridge goes the way of the dodo, replaced by a propane fuel cell, a battery, and a compressor fridge.
6: We will see a move from gasoline to diesel because with fuel getting more expensive, it means that the added expense for a diesel might be more than compensated for the longer fuel life and economy.
7: We will see slide-outs not just for rooms, but for layers of solar panels.
