Posted on 10/18/2023 11:11:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s not quite a replacement for diesel RVs, but the latest all-electric camper van from Grounded is getting there. The G2 claims a fully loaded range of 250 miles from its 165kWh vehicle battery, which easily trumps the Grounded G1’s range of 108 miles. It can be configured with up to 640W of rooftop solar and a hefty 10kWh house battery that can be charged from the main battery. It’s not cheap, with a starting price of $195,000, but living in the future never is.
“The G2 is radically different from any other offering on the market,” said Grounded CEO Sam Shapiro, a former SpaceX senior software engineer who worked on Starlink. “It’s a profound step toward a future of fully electrified motorhomes, and makes sustainable travel truly achievable.”
Grounded is an electric RV startup founded in 2022 by some ex-Tesla and SpaceX engineers that operates out of a Ford-sponsored incubator in Detroit. That’s probably why the G1 was built on the Ford E-Transit chassis, whereas the new G2 is built on GM’s all-wheel drive BrightDrop Zevo 600 platform, offering improved range and 615 cubic feet of living space.
“We’ve designed the G2 to be as flexible as possible, and our truly modular interior delivers on the promise of a continually upgradable RV interior,” says Shapiro. “Over time, as your life changes and your use cases change, the vehicle can change with you. Customers can replace the modules themselves by removing some fasteners, taking out one module, and inserting a new one.”
The G2 can be fitted with Starlink for off-grid connectivity, heating and cooling in the cabin, an indoor shower, wet bath, induction stovetops, and queen-size bed. The vehicle is protected by an eight-year / 100,000-mile warranty.
Once a customer makes a $100 deposit, Grounded will reach out to schedule a design call to begin the custom build. Deliveries will begin starting this month.
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.
UPS ?
In a couple of years those batteries will be NLA.
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.
“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.
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).
I have a class B for sale.
Does it come with an internal shower? I am guessing the model in the article is class B.
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. 😄
Also has an outdoor shower.
Starlink, and 640W of solar
Vacations are a lot shorter now days.
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.
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.
Sure. With our retard in the white house and 20% inflation, middle class America will be lining up for this one.
Electric loses 40 to 50% range in cold weather.
Plugin hybrids are less popular than EVs. At the end of 2022 only a million were sold. EVs totaled about 2.5M.
Mr Fusion only powers the time control circuit. The car runs on ordinary gasoline.
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.
Who would be responsible for the forest fire if it catches fire while camping? The owner or the manufacturer?
“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.
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