Truck Campers 10 years from now?
Being close to the new year, was just wondering what kind of camper our children might be driving .... I can see them being much more " Off Grid ", than what we have now. Using newer designed phot...
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I believe that the RV industry will proceed similar to Sabconsulting's description (specifically whole RV integrated solar skins, and sharing electric vehicle battery capacity with the RV). Billtex has also included some very plausible direction, especially with the new Ford pickup/truck camper factory offering (no hassle, no fuss). Robert Ryan's pointing out the enormous strides made among Australian RV/truck camper manufacturers vis composites is important (Australian RV manufacturers need to market their products World-wide by selling turn-key manufacturing "systems" and expertise, not by exporting "end product" from geographically shipping-disadvantageous Australia).
Now for some future prognostication: petrol-fueled *consumer* vehicles will likely dry up in about 15 years (15 years is three 5-year design cycles; staggered dry-up of petrol-fueled vehicles from country to country), as all consumer vehicles are morphed into electric and other hybrid technologies; the only petrol-fueled vehicles likely to be left on the roads of the World will be commercial (air, road and ocean-going commercial). The RV as we know it will continue to shrink in size, and the only RVs resembling the old dinosaurs will be used product (ever depleting in quantity over time: via attrition). We will experience extremely wildly varying gasoline/kerosene/LP/diesel pricing, going from $1.60 a gallon, to $12 a gallon, to $2 a gallon, to $10 a gallon, to 2.50 a gallon, on a wild roller-coaster ride (as will our global stock markets over the next 20 or more years). This wild fluctuation will instill fear in the consumer confidence furthering petrol-fueled consumer vehicle attrition rates, and steer the vast majority of drivers to electric/and/or hybrid technology vehicles, and the new just-in-time taxi smart-phone services (currently expanding Globally, at a lightning speed).
...we'll live and see! IMO...
Silver-
Now for some future prognostication: petrol-fueled *consumer* vehicles will likely dry up in about 15 years (15 years is three 5-year design cycles; staggered dry-up of petrol-fueled vehicles from country to country), as all consumer vehicles are morphed into electric and other hybrid technologies; the only petrol-fueled vehicles likely to be left on the roads of the World will be commercial (air, road and ocean-going commercial). The RV as we know it will continue to shrink in size, and the only RVs resembling the old dinosaurs will be used product (ever depleting in quantity over time: via attrition). We will experience extremely wildly varying gasoline/kerosene/LP/diesel pricing, going from $1.60 a gallon, to $12 a gallon, to $2 a gallon, to $10 a gallon, to 2.50 a gallon, on a wild roller-coaster ride (as will our global stock markets over the next 20 or more years). This wild fluctuation will instill fear in the consumer confidence furthering petrol-fueled consumer vehicle attrition rates, and steer the vast majority of drivers to electric/and/or hybrid technology vehicles, and the new just-in-time taxi smart-phone services (currently expanding Globally, at a lightning speed).
...we'll live and see! IMO...
Silver-
