Posted on 09/13/2022 1:21:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
To help alleviate range-slashing towing issues, the Colorado Teardrops Boulder trailer packs enough battery power to fully or significantly charge some Tesla models (or whatever EV you choose to tow it with)Colorado Teardrops VIEW 16 IMAGES
VIEW GALLERY - 16 IMAGES Colorado may not hold a candle to Germany when it comes to electric camper van innovation, but it is slowly becoming a hotbed for electric camper trailers. Last year, following the Colorado Campworks NS-1 trailer and its all-electric camping package, Colorado Teardrops proposed a small trailer with a battery large enough to charge an electric tow vehicle â it would deliver more range while in tow than the vehicle would get without. What was previously a series of (very rough) Boulder renderings is now a working prototype, testing its way toward a planned 2023 market launch.
With tow loads capable of more than halving an EV's already limited range, trailer manufacturers are working quickly to innovate new solutions to the problem. The most visible has been Thor Industries/Erwin Hymer's cross-Atlantic effort to create an e-driven trailer that can cut its effective weight to zero, essentially powering itself behind the tow vehicle. Colorado Teardrops, on the other hand, presents a less complicated solution that involves loading its teardrop with a Tesla Model Y-sized battery large enough to power available electrical camping equipment and work as a range extender for the vehicle towing it.
Like many teardrop trailers, the Colorado Teardrops Boulder sits on a powder-coated steel frame with Dexter torsion suspension cushioning the wheels. Unlike those many teardrop trailers, this one has a 75-kWh 480-V battery pack integrated into its chassis build, keeping weight low and center.
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That’s good.
How many people have experience pulling a trailer? Kinda hard to park most places too.
If this isn’t The Babylon Bee, it should be! Rediculosity to the third power!
It rains in the mountains a lot. Or just clouds up.
Don’t forget to unswitch when you fill up. Everyone did.... Once.
Actually l was referring to this piece of equipment not your comment, although your comment brings it home
Towing dents the range of an electric far more than it does an IC engine car. Not because of any electric motor inefficiency, in fact its the opposite. Gasoline engines are fairly inefficient at part throttle, which is where you have it when you are on the highway. Adding extra drag requires a bit more throttle, but your total efficiency goes up. Whereas in an electric vehicle, the efficiency is about the same. So there is less of a drop for the gas engine than the electric.
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Battery = big bucks
That’s why it’s not economical to replace the battery pack in an electric car when they peter out.
That’s flat out hard to believe. So after all the taxes, dealer fees etc, that tiny trailer must be up to 65,000!!!
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It has a 200 mile long extension cord coiled up in there.
Don’t need one. It’ll catch fire while charging.
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Get’cha a couple of Bluetti AC500s and B300s ,3000 watts of thin film solar panels and a regular tear drop trailer and it’d probably be cheaper than this thing.ðĪ
Pure gold, lol!
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