solar powered camper up to 450 mile range

RetiredRealtorRick wrote:

wa8yxm wrote:
I am wondering .. you go 400 miles (about 8 hours driving so that's a decent range.. I assume an average speed of 50MPH) and park.. How long before you can go another 400 on SOLAR alone?

I agree. If you complete that 8-hour trek, and it's night time, what's the plan? Wake up tomorrow morning and sit around until it's daylight and it recharges?

I’m sure it’s CCS compatible so any CCS charger would work. It’s in Europe so no shortage of them.

wa8yxm wrote:
I am wondering .. you go 400 miles (about 8 hours driving so that's a decent range.. I assume an average speed of 50MPH) and park.. How long before you can go another 400 on SOLAR alone?

I agree. If you complete that 8-hour trek, and it's night time, what's the plan? Wake up tomorrow morning and sit around until it's daylight and it recharges?

Hi wa8yxm,

2 to 3 days to fully charge from empty.

top speed 75 mph

453 miles (730 km) on a sunny day while reaching up to a range of 372 miles (600 km) when cloudy.

That's about how far my class C goes on a full tank of fuel.

KD4UPL wrote:
That thing is literally too low to make it up my driveway; how in the world could I ever take it "camping"? An it makes 60 to 70% of the same energy on cloudy days? No other solar panel I'm aware of comes anywhere close to that; what new kind of panel did they invent?

I expect they used the "off the shelf" German panels that have diodes between each and every cell.

I'd love to find a source of supply in North America.

Now that I'm back to part time--the Uni-solar units meet my needs--and I'll migrate back to a very large bank of 700 amp-hours of SiO2 jars.

wa8yxm wrote:
I am wondering .. you go 400 miles (about 8 hours driving so that's a decent range.. I assume an average speed of 50MPH) and park.. How long before you can go another 400 on SOLAR alone?

It’s a good question but really, for many it would probably be a good fit. When we touring with our pusher we would travel 3 or 4 hours and stay a week. Rinse and repeat. A great North American circle would generally take us 5 months. We did it a bunch of times. I’m thinking something like that would lend itself well to that kinda RV lifestyle. Maybe a little small though.

I am wondering .. you go 400 miles (about 8 hours driving so that's a decent range.. I assume an average speed of 50MPH) and park.. How long before you can go another 400 on SOLAR alone?

That thing is literally too low to make it up my driveway; how in the world could I ever take it "camping"? An it makes 60 to 70% of the same energy on cloudy days? No other solar panel I'm aware of comes anywhere close to that; what new kind of panel did they invent?

Interesting, but a little light on actual details. Lotta fluff, but few hard facts.

"Up to 450 miles..." How many hours travel vs how many hours sitting and charging vs how much usage as a camper?

My guess is very little chance in an unmolested marketplace, yet maybe the Gov’t will subsidize these too?? :)

3 tons

With the poor quality control we see in RV'S today this will never be seen on our highways.