The favored RV peer-to-peer rental platform, RVshare, has introduced a partnership with Lightyear RV that offers its customers precedence entry to order its just lately introduced L1. The L1 is an all-electric, self-propelled journey trailer that goes on sale in 2024. Lightship itself is accepting pre-orders immediately for $500 apiece, however RVshare customers who start the method on its web site will transfer to the entrance of the road.
The L1’s promoting proposition is that it is self-propelled, which suggests it successfully reduces the range-hit an electrical automobile would expertise whereas towing it to nothing. The corporate says this means “a 300-mile range electric vehicle (EV) used to tow it remains a 300-mile range EV, and a 25-mpg gas truck remains a 25-mpg gas truck.” Take a look at after take a look at has proven that EV vary falls dramatically, normally over 50 %, whereas towing heavy masses like trailers; Lightship’s answer neutralizes this drawback and makes EV towing a sensible, if not costly, actuality.
The L1 comes with a big 80 kWh battery pack and electrical powertrain. It is 27-feet lengthy and its top goes from 6 toes, 9 inches tall in Highway Mode to 10 toes tall in Camp Mode. It weighs round 7,500 kilos totally loaded, which is not dangerous contemplating its measurement and the large battery on board. The roof and twin awnings are additionally lined with photo voltaic panels to assist preserve that battery charged and powering the trailer’s many electrical home equipment.
Some within the feedback have balked on the L1’s beginning worth of $125,000, particularly for an RV chances are you’ll solely use for a short while every year. That is true, although there are loads RVers who journey nearly all of the 12 months and have the disposable earnings to place in direction of an L1.
There may be different makes use of for the L1 whereas it is parked close to your private home. Lightship says the L1 can cost your electrical automobile, which suggests it contains some type of bi-directional charging. With the correct software program, it may even energy your own home throughout an outage or act like a financial institution of Tesla Powerwalls that shops photo voltaic vitality on your house to make use of all through the day.
If all this hypothesis has you wanting to safe a spot for the L1, click on right here to start out the precedence reservation course of by RVshare.
