Camping in an EV.... Always charging...
So here is the start of the FLT driving from Sacramento to Ak in their electric F150 Lighting. Just a few observations from me: #1. To put a "canopy" on a truck and calling it a camper is a joke...
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mkirsch wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Ignoring the chest puffing over what qualifies as camping....
This is an RV site and it is at best marginal to call a pickup with a bed cap an RV and really irrelevant when talking about range.
It's a vehicle, being used for recreation. Therefore it is a Recreational Vehicle, an RV.
An F150 towing a TT is less of an RV than one with a bed cap used to overnight in. Trailers are not vehicles. Just ask your nearest crusty old phart when the bill from the Motor Vehicle Department comes in the mail on January 2nd.
If you really want to get nit picky about it, spending a couple of days in your little house on wheels is not "camping." Camping is sleeping on the ground under the stars with a rock as a pillow.
It's quite common for terms to take on meanings over time that are not consistent with the original underlying terms. They evolve over time.
We spent several years traveling on our boat...it's a vehicle and was used for recreation but only someone trying to be pedantic would call it an RV.
Same goes for calling it "camping" which comes from setting up an encampment. Camping implies setting up temporary accommodations in an outdoor area. It doesn't have to be tents. ...over time, in recreational use it came to be associated with camping in tents but as RVs (aka: campers) came about, it came to include those also. Really the term RV is a much more recent term intended to differentiate camping in an RV vs camping in a tent.
