This Detroit-based electric RV has a 250-mile range, Starlink, and 640W of solar

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[cyclotic]

I’ll be buying my company car, a F-150 in a few weeks. I assume the price will be just under $20,000. We’re looking to rig it for overland camping with a $6-7,000 cap with integrated rooftop tent. We will have to road trip from Maryland to Washington State to pick it up, but that’s the fun of road tripping.

For only $173,000 more, I can have this little beauty with a little more room, less load capacity and less mileage, plus not many campsites have car chargers attached.

[butlerweave]

UPS ?

[Revel]

In a couple of years those batteries will be NLA.

[CommerceComet]

My idea of a vacation. Drive for 200 miles or so and then sit for hours at a charging station. Could tow a car to make side trips during the charging sessions but of course, then you'll only get a 100-150 miles until you need to charge.

I'm sure the kids would love the time sitting at the charging stations. The whine of "are we there yet?" will become are "are we done yet?" as you twiddle your thumbs at the charging station.

[Seruzawa]

“It’s not cheap, with a starting price of $195,000, but living in the future never is.”

The future may be EV but is not lithium based. Lithium batteries cannot provide what’s needed. In fact by any OSHA standards lithium should never have been approved. Products with better safety records than lithium have been banned. The use of lithium is pure political BS.

[EVO X]

Not a very good fit in most RVers travel plans or reasons for owning an RV...

Ditto. Snooping around a bit, one can buy a class C motor home for low six figures that is bigger and has an internal shower. The $200K EV motorhome has an outside shower(LOL).

[Fuzz]

I have a class B for sale.

[EVO X]

Does it come with an internal shower? I am guessing the model in the article is class B.

[Fuzz]

It does. Small though. Wet bath which means the shower and toilet are in the same area. Propane stove and generator, convection oven, nearly king size bed, fridge, built in coffee maker, TV.

Like a small apartment on wheels. 😄

[Fuzz]

Also has an outdoor shower.

[Vaduz]

Starlink, and 640W of solar

Vacations are a lot shorter now days.

[HamiltonJay]

250 miles of range you say? Because when I RV I only drive about 3.5 hours a day, before I stop for several hours before I drive another 3.5 hours...

Have no idea who the target market is on this thing, but I’m hard pressed to see who’s going to chomp at the bit for this.

[muir_redwoods]

The only plausible approach to electric vehicles is a hybrid. Extending mileage by using electric motors with an IC engine makes sense to me. If you run out of electricity you can still, use gasoline to get home.

[LouAvul]

with a starting price of $195,000

Sure. With our retard in the white house and 20% inflation, middle class America will be lining up for this one.

[minnesota_bound]

Electric loses 40 to 50% range in cold weather.

[EVO X]

The only plausible approach to electric vehicles is a hybrid. Extending mileage by using electric motors with an IC engine makes sense to me. If you run out of electricity you can still, use gasoline to get home.

Plugin hybrids are less popular than EVs. At the end of 2022 only a million were sold. EVs totaled about 2.5M.

[KobraKai]

Mr Fusion only powers the time control circuit. The car runs on ordinary gasoline.

[Varsity Flight]

We wouldn’t want it, can’t see the trees and scenery. And we want to travel at times, and not be Grounded, not Once or even II.

[shotgun]

Who would be responsible for the forest fire if it catches fire while camping? The owner or the manufacturer?

[CodeToad]

“but living in the future never is.”

Oh, that’s how these kids explain it to themselves: They’re living in the future.

Dumb kids. They are getting ripped off in the here and now.