Practicality of non-propane Camper
Is it possible to have an all-electric (or, at least, no propane) camper? Of course, been doing it since 2013. (OK, true confession, our outside grill is propane as you usually can't use charcoal we...
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For those who are towing with trucks like the Rivian or the F150 lightning I suppose they could just use the 120 volt output on the truck to power things like ceramic stoves or water heaters or heat pumps or whatever. Or just use a trailers on board battery bank and recharge it from a robust charging system using the trucks 120 volt or 240 volt output. Of course one would at some point need to have access to a fast charger for the truck at a reasonable distance to the camping site.
Our tow vehicle is electric but I can’t see us ever doing anything like that as the propane system on our trailer meets all our needs. We do have the ability to charge the trailer AGMs from the tow vehicle albeit at max 10 amps at 12 volts. Good enough in a pinch if we ran the trailer battery down and we needed 12 volts for the trailers hydronic heating water circulation pump. But other than testing the concept we have never had to do that. And unlike the new 1/2 ton electric trucks our Electric SUV doesn’t have a built in 120 volt inverter. Meh, propane is fine for us. The all electric concept is kinda cool though.
Cheers.
Our tow vehicle is electric but I can’t see us ever doing anything like that as the propane system on our trailer meets all our needs. We do have the ability to charge the trailer AGMs from the tow vehicle albeit at max 10 amps at 12 volts. Good enough in a pinch if we ran the trailer battery down and we needed 12 volts for the trailers hydronic heating water circulation pump. But other than testing the concept we have never had to do that. And unlike the new 1/2 ton electric trucks our Electric SUV doesn’t have a built in 120 volt inverter. Meh, propane is fine for us. The all electric concept is kinda cool though.
Cheers.
