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RE: Genesis GV80 SUV Safe to tow the Micro Minnie? or not?
Weigh the hitch after it’s completely loaded including the water tank full. Some trailers including ours get lighter on the hitch as the trailer is loaded. This is common on European designed or influenced trailers. Especially single axle units.
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Reisender
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03/11/23 03:40pm |
Travel Trailers
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Prevost developing an electric coach.
Interesting read.
https://sustainablebiz.ca/volvos-prevost-developing-electric-coaches-in-ev-push
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Reisender
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03/10/23 08:53pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
Reisender I drive quite slowly. I found a "sweet spot" at 49 mph. If I drive that speed I get an honest 12.5 MPG. If I drive 50 mph I get 10 mpg.
I don't believe in long drives without taking a break every 2 hours.
If I stop for lunch I would, if needed, opportunity charge.
My understanding is that BEV vehicles which can manage 500 miles are currently available.
Yah could be. We are typically good for 2 to 3 hours before we need a pee brake. We usually charge on any pee break. We are usually back on the road in 15 to 20 minutes. We typically don’t travel more than a 1000 kilometres a day any more.
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Reisender
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03/06/23 05:44pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
Do any of us take a highway trip without filling up first?
My day use of an RV would be supported by level 1 charging.
My preferred charge level around town would be 50% and I'd recharge when I reached 40%. I would certainly not exceed 85%.
If, on the other hand I were going 205 miles, I'd fully charge, and do a lunch stop at 100 miles.i cannot fathom a stop at only 100 miles we often go 7-800 miles a day.
I’m not sure how to read this. Are you under the impression that EV’s charge every 100 miles?
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Reisender
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03/06/23 04:39pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
So what you’re saying is - if you leave, make sure you have at least 25% in reserve or make a new plan.I read it as 75% in reserve.
No. You misunderstood. Here driving on the top 3/4’s of the tank means you assume your bottom quarter is not there, and it becomes your reserve. Good advice on winter. Traffic issues are common in winter here.
Hope that helps.
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03/06/23 08:59am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
So what you’re saying is - if you leave, make sure you have at least 25% in reserve or make a new plan.
In the winter? Yes. Most of us are taught that way when we are young. And BC highways recommend da it as well.
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Reisender
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03/06/23 08:48am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
How many of use carry a spare gas (or diesel) can full of fuel as we travel on well travelled highways?
I do agree that for off road EV may not be a wise choice.
If by “off road” you mean rural vs urban, maybe.
It’s funny how the closed minds refuse to acknowledge that if one booked a new EV truck/suv to any sort of substantial trailer, there are many paved roads in both of our countries where it wouldn’t make it to the next charging station or at a bare minimum you’d be chasing charging stations and praying you made it there.
Well, you wouldn’t be “praying you would make it there”. You would know before you left wherever you are exactly what charge you would arrive with at your destination. If it says you can’t make it and you leave anyway then you are going to the wrong destination or have the wrong vehicle to get there. It’s not that hard. Right tool for the right job.So do I understand correctly? Before you leave your EV knows whether or not you will have the seat warmers on, whether or not you will need the windshield wipers (and at what speed), what cabin temperature you will want (taking into consideration outside temp), and how long you will be stuck in traffic due to a bad accident. That’s a pretty amazing car!
Kind of. First of all seat heaters and windshield wipers are pretty much irrelevant in the calculation. But yes if your seat heaters are on they are calculated, along with the daily forecast for wind speed, elevation, air density, outside temperature, inside temperature etc etc etc.
And just like a gas vehicle the driver has to plan for traffic holdups or snow slides or whatever. If you count on the car using 2 or 3 percent per hour in a winter traffic holdup you are good. When I was young my dad taught all the kids to drive on the top 3/4 of the tank in winter just in case. We still do that. Same with a battery vehicle. An EV doesn’t use much power just suiting there keeping you warm or cold.
Hope that helps.
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Reisender
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03/06/23 07:07am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
How many of use carry a spare gas (or diesel) can full of fuel as we travel on well travelled highways?
I do agree that for off road EV may not be a wise choice.
If by “off road” you mean rural vs urban, maybe.
It’s funny how the closed minds refuse to acknowledge that if one booked a new EV truck/suv to any sort of substantial trailer, there are many paved roads in both of our countries where it wouldn’t make it to the next charging station or at a bare minimum you’d be chasing charging stations and praying you made it there.
Well, you wouldn’t be “praying you would make it there”. You would know before you left wherever you are exactly what charge you would arrive with at your destination. If it says you can’t make it and you leave anyway then you are going to the wrong destination or have the wrong vehicle to get there. It’s not that hard. Right tool for the right job.
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Reisender
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03/05/23 09:41am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
Common sense says the ICE is t going anywhere anytime soon. In fact the only way I would ever buy any Electric vehicle is with an engine like the Pacifica, Wrangler and Grand Cherokee PHEV. You e got to have some type of backup for when the battery dies and you can’t get it charged immediately.
I don’t know. I suppose there are situations where that could happen. But really, if the battery dies then that means the driver couldn’t read a charge gauge. So he probably can’t read a gas gauge either. Most people don’t have problems with basic instrumentation.
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Reisender
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03/05/23 08:43am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
No one knows the future of batteries and fuel capability and related costs.
What is known is that Detroit resists change until they are given no choice. Don't think that Californias leading edge requirements won't effect other states etc as California alone has a significant market share.
Just my opinion.
Yep. And the number 1 and 2 vehicles sold in California are electric. Same in much of Europe and Asia. It will come down to where the manufacturers can make money.
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Reisender
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03/04/23 08:28am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Electric and ICE forever together?
I doubt there will be many small to medium gas cars or SUV’s manufactured. The gas market for these size of vehicles will be very small in 12 years. But larger vehicles, 3/4 and bigger trucks are not affected by any proposed North American legislation. I’m sure there will still be manufacturing of them. I would think the majority of half tons will be electric though. The technology will have changed so much by then.
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Reisender
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03/04/23 06:20am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Do we have a pickup glut already?
As far as electric half tons, Rivian still has a 15 month waiting list. I’m not sure if there is or how long the waiting list is for the ford lightning. Prices seem to have stabilized somewhat for fords. Rivians are non negotiable.
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Reisender
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02/24/23 07:46pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: I know I wandered off...
Up here in BC we are seeing a lot more teardrop type trailers being pulled by small SUV, small trucks etc. This is our [email protected] A little over 18 feet and weighs in fully loaded just under 3400 pounds. Hitch weight about 340 pounds loaded. There are smaller and larger models from the various manufacturers. Easy pull for the right SUV. We have pulled ours all over Canada and extensively in BC. Easy to get into forestry site etc. We love it. Made up bed and a separate eating table. We didn't want to have to make up a bed every night and we wanted one person to be able to get up and have breakfast and the other one to be able to sleep in. We say so many on our big BC tour last summer. Less common outside BC.
Hope that helps and hope you find what you are looking for.
Cheers.
John
I've seen quite a few of the Teardrops making a comeback here too. Too small for our needs. A Popup has 2 queen beds, a sofa bed as well as a small bed by folding the table down. Room to sleep at least 5 adults. We had 2 adults and 2 teens in ours. Teardrops seem awesome for 2 adults!
Ah yes. You’ll need a little more room. Good luck with the search.
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02/19/23 07:46pm |
Folding Trailers
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RE: I know I wandered off...
What are people buying instead of PopUp tent trailers? My first popup weighed only 1,000lbs. Had 2 queen beds, stove, sink etc. 2nd popup was much larger, 1 king, 1 queen, shower, toilet, stove, sink, outside sink and grill and weighed only 2,000lbs. I could tow either with an economy SUV with ease.
My 3rd trailer was a hybrid hard sided but with foldout tent beds. Tons of room, huge slide out and weighed 5,000lbs fully loaded. I did have to upgrade the tow vehicle to a Durango 5.7L V8.
The current popups I've seen are high sided to allow for full ovens, microwave, refrigerators and most other ammenities. These are no longer lightweight and in most cases cannot be towed with a economy SUV. In this regard, may as well get a small hard sided and larger tow vehicle.
Up here in BC we are seeing a lot more teardrop type trailers being pulled by small SUV, small trucks etc. This is our [email protected] A little over 18 feet and weighs in fully loaded just under 3400 pounds. Hitch weight about 340 pounds loaded. There are smaller and larger models from the various manufacturers. Easy pull for the right SUV. We have pulled ours all over Canada and extensively in BC. Easy to get into forestry site etc. We love it. Made up bed and a separate eating table. We didn't want to have to make up a bed every night and we wanted one person to be able to get up and have breakfast and the other one to be able to sleep in. We say so many on our big BC tour last summer. Less common outside BC.
Hope that helps and hope you find what you are looking for.
Cheers.
John
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Reisender
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02/19/23 03:23pm |
Folding Trailers
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RE: Waterton & Lake Louise early May.????
We are thinking about making a late Spring trip to the Canadian Rockies. We are currently thinking about arriving at Waterton Lakes Townsite campground around May 1st and then Lake Louise Hard-sided around May 5th to May 10th this is outside the time frame in which the parks take reservations.
My questions what’s the possibility of obtaining a first come first serve campsite this time a year?
Is this too early to visit? We like to see the snow on the mountains. I assume that the roads and parking lots will be clear of snow.
Waterton national park? On May fifth????. In my opinion no problem. Last week we showed up in middle of june hoping for a site and got right in. We were there for a week and had to move a couple times but had no problem. Great park. Lots of hiking and history. Do the hump. Welcome to Canada and enjoy your stay. Here are a few pics. Great park.
Thats the hump. Hike it. Its not to bad. (don't worry the trail only goes half way up)
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Thats the USA in the distance behind us. Picture taken from the hump.
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02/16/23 03:58pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
With an electric bill of 160 kWh and last petroleum fill up July 2022 I could be sanctimonious but I won't. Because its an unrealistic lifestyle.
What I am going to state is this: some of you younger folks are going to live long enough to remember the Good Old Days: When electricity was an unbelievably cheap dollar per kWh. Shoot with the way inflation is going that may be five dollars an hour.
All my life I've prayed for the discovery of superconduction and fusion powered boilers. It looks like it'll remain a dream as I rest in the shade of a parota tree
Maybe. But 7 years ago it was 4 times cheaper to drive a given distance with our EV. Now it’s 6 times cheaper.
Cheaper than what?
Our old gas grand Cherokee.
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Reisender
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02/16/23 11:44am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Long as you don't drive far
Depends on the vehicle I guess. We have done about 19000 kilometres in the last year.
Most of it towing our travel trailer all over Canada. But yes. Some EV’s are more designed to be commuters.
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02/16/23 11:12am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
With an electric bill of 160 kWh and last petroleum fill up July 2022 I could be sanctimonious but I won't. Because its an unrealistic lifestyle.
What I am going to state is this: some of you younger folks are going to live long enough to remember the Good Old Days: When electricity was an unbelievably cheap dollar per kWh. Shoot with the way inflation is going that may be five dollars an hour.
All my life I've prayed for the discovery of superconduction and fusion powered boilers. It looks like it'll remain a dream as I rest in the shade of a parota tree
Maybe. But 7 years ago it was 4 times cheaper to drive a given distance with our EV. Now it’s 6 times cheaper.
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02/16/23 10:03am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Level 2 charging (240 volts 16 amps) is capable of 3940 watts per hour. (3.9 kwh)I could look it up, but, I wonder what the new Tesla semi tractor charge rate is? I bet it's a whopper!
This is a Megacharger. There are only 4 of these and they are all the same (although one is still under construction). This one is at the Tesla semi factory in Nevada. The others are at various pepsi depots.
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02/15/23 04:53pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
But the truck can actually charge faster than that. But the existing megachargers that pepsi has installed are 750 KW.Can't wait to see one going up a grade at highway speed.
It’ll be awhile for us as we won’t be doing the grapevine till March of 2024. We’ll be hauling our little trailer. Hoping that Harris ranch has their campground in by then. We’ll be on the homebound route by then.
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02/15/23 03:05pm |
Around the Campfire
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