Pebble Flow Electric RV Pulls Its Own Weight

BS as usual 😀

If Woody Allen remade Sleep­er in 2023, this con­trap­tion could serve as both his trail­er on the set and the inspi­ra­tion for the revised Orgasmatron

This is obvi­ous­ly not designed for you peasants.

Sure seems like a lot of resources are being har­vest­ed to go green 😂

Mmm app con­trolled… I don’t think so. The com­pa­ny goes out of busi­ness and you end up with an expen­sive box that can’t move. No, peo­ple should avoid this like plague

So elec­tric assist helps mpg when it’s on? What about all the added weight you have to pull when it’s off? Elec­tric car­a­van movers have been a thing for years as well. This just looks like an over­weight van that adds expense to cure non exis­tent prob­lems and I seri­ous­ly doubt it will ever sell if it even reach­es production.

There are so many prob­lems here .…
1. Sleep­ing space over a Li-ion bat­tery pack is a poten­tial death trap. Is the bat­tery pack equipped with heat/smoke alarms?
2. How is the bat­tery cooled?
3. The nose wheel is too small for effec­tive oper­a­tion on dirt or grav­el (this thing is for camp­ing, right?)
4. The bat­tery pack must be heav­i­ly armored against dam­age from road debris or uneven sur­faces (not men­tioned).
5. Bat­ter­ies are heavy — vehi­cle weight not men­tioned — the prod­uct should have 4 wheels, not two, for greater safe­ty.
6. Tire load rat­ing and qual­i­ty are cru­cial, a blowout on any 2‑wheel camper can be cat­a­stroph­ic and this one is heav­i­est in its class.
7. The dri­ving dynam­ics of pulling a trail­er that push­es weren’t men­tioned. A fifth-wheel set­up is more sta­ble because push­ing force would be applied clos­er to the tow vehi­cle’s cen­ter of mass. Push­ing on the tow vehi­cle’s bumper is inher­ent­ly unsta­ble.
8. Does it have regen brak­ing? How would its regen brak­ing sync with the tow vehi­cle’s regen brak­ing?
9. What is the fed­er­al and state legal­i­ty of motive campers? Where is the devel­op­er in the homolo­ga­tion process?

Thanks, CNET for the steno­graph­ic advert. You total­ly researched this one.

Cool to be able to park/fine tune rv posi­tion with­out tow vehi­cle. The range anx­i­ety issue is a result of using a much less ener­gy dense ener­gy source/storage. Sim­ply bat­ter­ies dont have the ener­gy den­si­ty. It’s just physics. Exam­ple. My truck can tow 16k with­out a blink. With aux­il­iary tank I have 800 mile range. 15 min­utes to gas up and boom anoth­er 800 miles. Leave the EV guy and his fan­cy trail­er at the charg­ing sta­tion while he sips a lat­te in his skin­ny jeans and man bun won­der­ing if he is ever going to get to his des­ti­na­tion. Anoth­er exam­ple apply­ing great tech to wrong problem.

I’ve nev­er seen some­one try so hard to explain why back­ing up to a trail­er is ‘just a hard physics prob­lem’… like no sir.… it is not that dif­fi­cult. If you can’t get that part of it done, should you be con­cerned about hav­ing a 7k-pound self-pro­pelled weight push­ing your car around on the road–because THAT may be a hard physics prob­lem. What hap­pens when that thing hits a slick spot in the road or you get passed by a semi and it starts to wig­gle a lit­tle? You still need a vehi­cle that can pull a trail­er of this weight and not exceed the GCVWR. Per­haps a more use­ful addi­tion would have been a bat­tery pack in the trail­er that con­nects via plug to extend the range on your EV. If you aren’t pulling this with an EV, it makes no prac­ti­cal sense. Not that it makes a lot of sense any­way. There seem to be some very large safe­ty con­sid­er­a­tions that no one is talk­ing about.

Pret­ty cool! How does it do being trail­ered by an EV down the moun­tain pass?