Survey on new technology for truck campers

M Kirsch wrote:
Technology could mean a lightweight honeycomb structure that is virtually rot-proof and knocks several hundred pounds off the weight of the camper. You gonna scream "NO! NO! NO!" to that?

....what about metal or FRP SIPs? With a skin of FRP or aluminum lock channel on both sides staggered to eliminate thermal bridging, forming an I-beam matrix (yes, apply FRP even on the inside, because the SIP can be say R16 = no interior condensation nor thermal bridging). With locking tongue-and-groove channellings (welded with epoxy), you essentially have a truck camper boat hull. Also, they would be Class I fire rated (polyurethane foam with fire retardant infused into the foam, render say, 750 degree F structural integrity).

A SIP manufacturer (or several around the country) could supply any individual or multiple truck camper (or, RV manufacturers) with all their pre-manufactured panels JIT, in custom sizes to assemble differing camper shell dimensions (assemble just like a Meccano set). The panels could even have built-in electrical cable channels.

These panels and panel makers already exist, and can easily supply the RV (or, truck camper) manufacturing market with panels with pre-cut window, roof and appliance ports.

Imagine having a truck camper with absolutely zero thermal bridging, and a micro air exchange heat recovery system running with 2 x computer fans (plans are available on-line) ?

I calculated to comfortably heat a truck camper 8 feet wide, by 16 feet long, by 6.4 feet high sitting in constant 25F outdoor temps and keeping the interior at 72F, with the above SIP construction and Low E windows x 3, you'd need appx 532 BTU/hour, that with exchanging the volume about once per hour with the exchanger..heating with something like a Truma Combi furnace/water heater system.....