Our electric future will include a high-tech, wheel-driven luxury camper trailer, and lots of eBikes.
is that they lose so much range when you attach a trailer. Well, what if the trailer had its own batteries and electric motor? That’s the plan for the coming Lightship travel trailer. Between its frame rails is an 80-kWh battery, as big as in many luxury EVs, that powers not only all the accessories on this luxo-rolling home, but also powers two of the rig’s four wheels.
“The battery and motor get the e-Truck back up to its 300-mile range,” said co-founder Ben Parker, who was a battery engineer at Tesla before this. In Road Mode the Lightship draws on the 80-kWh battery to power a single electric motor in the middle of the forward axle. In camp mode, assuming you didn’t completely drain the battery getting to your campsite, the battery offers a week of off-grid livin’.
The 27-foot-long trailer lowers down to a 6-foot-9-inch height for travel, offering three times the aerodynamic efficiency of, say, an Airstream. It then cranks up electrically to 10-feet-tall when parked. Inside, it is spacious, with a full kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room all in one big open interior. The windows raise outward for flow-through airiness . Solar panels on the roof offer a constant 2 kW of power to recharge the big battery.
The drawbacks? Approach and breakover angles look mighty slim, suggesting it might scrape or even get stuck over all but the flattest terrain, and prices start at $125,000. Also, patience is a virtue, since production doesn’t start until the end of 2024.
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