Hi,I was sure this was coming--but not as soon as this!https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/electric-adventure-rv-road-trip-180000971.html

To be fair for those in the solar camp, from same paper...."Whereas for solar at 5.7We m-2, 22% of Germany’sland area would need to be devoted to commercial scalesolar to meet total primary energy consumption."Some have determined that about 1/3 of USA would need to be covered with commercial solar farms to meet USA's current energy consumption needs.Power density is the riddle to solve.

I'm a little skeptical that they'll be shipping this in any reasonable quantity by next year - Zeus Electric says their chassis provides 150 miles of range, so the RV manufacturer would need to triple the battery size (or add more batteries) to hit that goal.I think we'll see RV's based on the Ford Transit electric chassis before you can buy a 400 mile range one from this company. The Transit only gives 120 miles of range, but that one way distance would handle nearly all of my weekend trips.

rlw999 wrote:I'm a little skeptical that they'll be shipping this in any reasonable quantity by next year - Zeus Electric says their chassis provides 150 miles of range, so the RV manufacturer would need to triple the battery size (or add more batteries) to hit that goal.I think we'll see RV's based on the Ford Transit electric chassis before you can buy a 400 mile range one from this company. The Transit only gives 120 miles of range, but that one way distance would handle nearly all of my weekend trips.Interesting, I just went to their site and looked closely at the photos. Their class 6 truck has rear coil springs. You don't see that anywhere else...

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400 miles. BUT, THEY HAVE NOT ADDED HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF WEIGHT. They state "renderings" of what will make it a RV. They just have a body and drivetrain now. What happens to the 400 miles when you have the FULL BLOWN RV version? Is it going to be all electric or will it have LP appliances? ALL ELECTRIC means a drastic reduction in that 400 miles. How is it going to be Cooled? That will be a very hot box if no AC system. Water tanks and holding tanks. These add weight and decrease mileage. Me thinks this is a premature press release to try and gin up enthusiasm. They do not have a actual vehicle to be evaluated yet. Doug

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3_tons
Explorer III
Oct 12, 2021
time2roll wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
You think I'm exaggerating about the impact of new green laws?https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-law-to-eventually-ban-gas-powered-lawn-16522118.php
More health issue than green.

In reality it has very little to do with health, and much more to do with the Orwellian impulse to constrict individual rights ….In this particular incarnation, the leveraging of one’s ‘eco-guilt’ (a reactive impulse) equates to open acceptance and conformity of what is the official disseminated narrative (minus supporting science)…This is why there’s little to no public interest to determine and demand the ‘supporting science’…Nothing whatsoever new here, historically a well practiced tactic that’s been devised in various forms to achieve otherwise unachievable agendas, but to the subsequent regrets of the many…”Where’s the call for the supporting Science?? - Subsidies are the paths necessary to quell these demands - incentives today, edicts tomorrow…

3 tons
time2roll
Nomad
Oct 11, 2021
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
You think I'm exaggerating about the impact of new green laws?https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-law-to-eventually-ban-gas-powered-lawn-16522118.php
More health issue than green.
noteven
Explorer III
Oct 11, 2021
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
You think I'm exaggerating about the impact of new green laws?https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-law-to-eventually-ban-gas-powered-lawn-16522118.php

That's nothing MEX - lakes in Canada have now banned riding your snowmobile on them when they are liquid unless it is electric

Snowmobile in lake
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Oct 11, 2021
You think I'm exaggerating about the impact of new green laws?https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-law-to-eventually-ban-gas-powered-lawn-16522118.php
pianotuna
Nomad III
Oct 10, 2021
3 tons,

You mean there *are* adults here????
3_tons
Explorer III
Oct 10, 2021
time2roll wrote:
Timmo! wrote:
Homey, could not verify what they have personally, but I bet they recycle their empty White Claw cans.

It does not surprise met that a hoity toity ivy league university that churns generations of pontificators that speak about all things woke (aka elites), has such a teensy weensy solar footprint. Why spend their endowment bucks to go 100% solar, just wait and pretty soon the Feds will start giving them away. Right?
Fair enough. My local university has similar size system. Although it is all on top of the buildings and parking structures. ZERO additional land use.

Not saying this is the end all solution.... however as more people and businesses participate it will go a long way with NO additional land use, NO additional transmission lines.

Enough Santa Claus with incentives... need more Grinch with mandates. One watt per square foot required for all new residential and all additions is my suggestion. Similar for business.

“I’m from the Gov’t and I’’m here to help (minus their gifted subsidies??)”… We’ll, with this current incarnation of overly pedigreed (pampered) guru’’s - are these the same Wizards of Smarts that have created 90% of our current maladies (incl. forest management, ‘theories’ et al) based on faux promises??…With a demise of Adults in the room, it’s kinda difficult for me to see how any real solutions (devoid of their Purple Unicorn ‘Scientism’) might materialize, especially since they’re not interested in objective findings - JMO, but based on aged results based real world observation…

3 tons
time2roll
Nomad
Oct 10, 2021
Timmo! wrote:
Homey, could not verify what they have personally, but I bet they recycle their empty White Claw cans.

It does not surprise met that a hoity toity ivy league university that churns generations of pontificators that speak about all things woke (aka elites), has such a teensy weensy solar footprint. Why spend their endowment bucks to go 100% solar, just wait and pretty soon the Feds will start giving them away. Right?
Fair enough. My local university has similar size system. Although it is all on top of the buildings and parking structures. ZERO additional land use.

Not saying this is the end all solution.... however as more people and businesses participate it will go a long way with NO additional land use, NO additional transmission lines.

Enough Santa Claus with incentives... need more Grinch with mandates. One watt per square foot required for all new residential and all additions is my suggestion. Similar for business.
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Oct 10, 2021
Wouldn't it be nice

http://www.thermalvisions.com/index.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnoqLBhD4ARIsAL5JedJys7uRCdJX4F-D2Ce1Ut3n5_9zi0Da06m3sAZwivFwQjLTtxsuvZsaAv0SEALw_wcB
Timmo_
Explorer II
Oct 10, 2021
Homey, could not verify what they have personally, but I bet they recycle their empty White Claw cans.

It does not surprise met that a hoity toity ivy league university that churns generations of pontificators that speak about all things woke (aka elites), has such a teensy weensy solar footprint. Why spend their endowment bucks to go 100% solar, just wait and pretty soon the Feds will start giving them away. Right?
time2roll
Nomad
Oct 10, 2021
So none of the researchers have home solar or an EV?