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- Their trip was western Europe. Try eastern Europe with that 2-3 inch ground clearance, nice vehicle for a very specific small niche. Pavement dwellers who never have to cross a speed bump.
- “Ecologically minded camping enthusiasts might be tempted by an electric van that is not reliant on charging points, which remain scarce in many places, he said.”
Depends on how long the solar system takes to fully recharge for the next leg of the trip. Remember the campers will be using some of that power. - A hint of things to come.
- With the poor quality control we see in RV'S today this will never be seen on our highways.
- My guess is very little chance in an unmolested marketplace, yet maybe the Gov’t will subsidize these too?? :)
3 tons - 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? - 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 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?
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.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.
