The EV overlanding conversation is an interesting one. It does offer quite a few options that are quite useful.. think of all the battery systems we design for our rigs to power fridges, lights, camp equipment and so on.. built right in on an EV. They are quite for the most part, lots of tech to play with—dont really care to much about that myself—they are quick on the road as well.
Intering reading about campgrounds as a good place to charge. See that works well for us. most of our “overlanding” is at lakes pulling the wakeboard boat. Anchoring in a cove campsite. Setting up a basecamp. Access to 30amp and water. So you could plug in, charge and run all your 12v camp gear. Not a bad idea.
i really like the Rivian truck as well as the suv.. very impressive. went to track day over the summer and was able to get into one to check it out.
My buddy is a huge Tesla fan boy— has a model 3 dual motor performance. And is on the list for a Cybertruck since the day it was release. Now, we live 240miles apart. He has to plan his route to charge halfway here, since there isn’t a supercharger close by my house. Nearest one is 16 miles in the opposite direction than we ever travel. In my Cummins, I drive to his house and almost home before I need fuel.
when they come to my place, I drive sine I know where everything is and places you can charge for free if you are a brewery or restaurant etc.
I can only drive his Tesla in short stints. It makes me so car sick even driving… I’m not sure why… the windshield has a weird curve in my eyeline, slways looking at the center stack for any information instead of in front of you. And the seats are super uncomfortable for me. I’m tall with long legs and the fit me wrong.. remind me of older BMW’s with out the sport seat. Not a fan.
the other thing is the biased push to buy an EV— they don’t work for me. My truck is my camp vehicle, my boat towing vehicle, my work truck that tows a dump trailer daily. loaded with 1000-1500lbs of tools in the bed every day. Hauling materials and trash. Last week I weighed in the dump ar 22000lbs. I only need to fill up with diesel once a week. I haven’t found an EV truck that can do what I need to do yet. I know they are coming. But at what cost? I have never paid over $40000.00 for any car. I refuse to finance anything, especially something that decreases in value the minute you drive off the lot. Plus I keep my vehicles for years.
My wife could drive one every day,(she drives the same route to work 4 days a week) but she hates them. She drives a manual transmission A4 daily. 30+ mpg’s in terrible stop and go traffic. Never owned an automatic car in her life. She finds EV’s ugly and boring.
I feel like the government could focus on public transportation to decrease road congestion and emissions. We just got back from Europe. seems like every small village and midevil town had trams, and electric trains to move people. City centers allowed cars on the road from 10pm-10am to allow businesses to restock-clean whatever was needed. Then those areas were foot traffic only.
I drive and tow trailers daily in terrible traffic. I seet the masses all going to the same factory, or same office building every day, driving by themselves in a car, glued to their phones, earbuds in, reading a newspaper, putting on makeup, everything but paying attention to what’s around them. Better suited to be on bus or a commuter train.
but I digress, this is about overlanding an EV- Yes I think that it is going to be a good thing. Especially as they get better, and the infrastructure gets there. I doubt that will be me.
I have invested in an EV company. One that I think will hopefully provide a vehicle that will work for guys like me. Atlis motor vehicles. Looking forward to see if they actually produce
Intering reading about campgrounds as a good place to charge. See that works well for us. most of our “overlanding” is at lakes pulling the wakeboard boat. Anchoring in a cove campsite. Setting up a basecamp. Access to 30amp and water. So you could plug in, charge and run all your 12v camp gear. Not a bad idea.
i really like the Rivian truck as well as the suv.. very impressive. went to track day over the summer and was able to get into one to check it out.
My buddy is a huge Tesla fan boy— has a model 3 dual motor performance. And is on the list for a Cybertruck since the day it was release. Now, we live 240miles apart. He has to plan his route to charge halfway here, since there isn’t a supercharger close by my house. Nearest one is 16 miles in the opposite direction than we ever travel. In my Cummins, I drive to his house and almost home before I need fuel.
when they come to my place, I drive sine I know where everything is and places you can charge for free if you are a brewery or restaurant etc.
I can only drive his Tesla in short stints. It makes me so car sick even driving… I’m not sure why… the windshield has a weird curve in my eyeline, slways looking at the center stack for any information instead of in front of you. And the seats are super uncomfortable for me. I’m tall with long legs and the fit me wrong.. remind me of older BMW’s with out the sport seat. Not a fan.
the other thing is the biased push to buy an EV— they don’t work for me. My truck is my camp vehicle, my boat towing vehicle, my work truck that tows a dump trailer daily. loaded with 1000-1500lbs of tools in the bed every day. Hauling materials and trash. Last week I weighed in the dump ar 22000lbs. I only need to fill up with diesel once a week. I haven’t found an EV truck that can do what I need to do yet. I know they are coming. But at what cost? I have never paid over $40000.00 for any car. I refuse to finance anything, especially something that decreases in value the minute you drive off the lot. Plus I keep my vehicles for years.
My wife could drive one every day,(she drives the same route to work 4 days a week) but she hates them. She drives a manual transmission A4 daily. 30+ mpg’s in terrible stop and go traffic. Never owned an automatic car in her life. She finds EV’s ugly and boring.
I feel like the government could focus on public transportation to decrease road congestion and emissions. We just got back from Europe. seems like every small village and midevil town had trams, and electric trains to move people. City centers allowed cars on the road from 10pm-10am to allow businesses to restock-clean whatever was needed. Then those areas were foot traffic only.
I drive and tow trailers daily in terrible traffic. I seet the masses all going to the same factory, or same office building every day, driving by themselves in a car, glued to their phones, earbuds in, reading a newspaper, putting on makeup, everything but paying attention to what’s around them. Better suited to be on bus or a commuter train.
but I digress, this is about overlanding an EV- Yes I think that it is going to be a good thing. Especially as they get better, and the infrastructure gets there. I doubt that will be me.
I have invested in an EV company. One that I think will hopefully provide a vehicle that will work for guys like me. Atlis motor vehicles. Looking forward to see if they actually produce
