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The US rockies region get to negative F all the time. The area around Antero Reservoir gets to -20F -30F all the time. Winter Park overnight parking is commonly around -10F overnight.

Camping in a car is not an issue at all. Living in a van or an RV is an entirely a different game. For that you need from 2 to 4 kilowatts of heat, for days on end. If you let the temps inside drop below freezing even once, you are dead, all the plumbing is frozen and batteries are out of commission until you warm them up.

Solar is useless in winter. Finding shore power is hard.

There are solved problems in van life and unsolved ones. The heat is solved with gas/diesel. The AC is not solved at all.

As far as the range, I drive a disel van with a range of 400+ miles. It's okay but often times I wish I had more.

Forget it, EV RV is a dumb idea and is never coming. It does not mean they won't be selling one. There's always a sucker to buy.

60 kwh at 4 kilowatt gives you 15 hours of heat in a van in cold weather. Granted, you may not need full 4 kilowatt of heat at all tines, so let's say it's one full day. You drive to BigSky Montana to ski and after two days your RV is frozen solid, including all the water and everything is dead and leaking. All you can do at this point is to try and find a shore hookup or an EV charger. But of course the batteries won't even charge because they are too cold.

Electric RV, you just can't, sorry.

One does not need heat to sleep in a car (slept dozens of nights at ski resorts). This does not mean that you can heat up a van/rv with electricity.

(I have lived for a month in a van in Montana/Colorado/Wyoming. Camped in a Forester for months all over. Lived and worked in a van for 30 days in PNW in spring).

12 kilowatt hours of battery storage gives you 3 hours of heat at 4 kilowatts. In 3 hours you freeze, literally (it's -0F/-18C outside, around Antero, Colorado).

12 kilowatt hours of battery is close 10 $10K in cost and takes 6 feet by 6 feet area and weighs 200lb.

Whatever you may think, in RV world:

1. Heat only can be done with gas/diesel/propane 2. AC consistently only on shore power 3. Cooking on propane 4. You will still be not living consistently in cold areas (like the Rockies) or warm areas (like FL). 5. Most of those long term rviers just hang on campgrounds for the electric power reasons (and sewer hookup).

So, electric RV is a dumb idea and will never be here.

I just own a camper van. In current state of affairs, heat is a solved problem with diesel. Air conditioning still does not have a viable solution, aside from shore power. You can't practically use electric for heating or anything really beyond powering the lights and the heater fan.

Most vans max out around 3kWth. I have seen people use a used Tesla battery, but only have seen one report.

I mean that trying to heat with electricity is not feasible for a van. You need 2-4 kilowatt of heat to stay warm in winter. In summer, AC is another unsolved problem: most of these RVs hang in campgrounds on shore power because this is the only way to get consistent AC in warmer locales.

Good luck heating this thing with electricity. Or air conditioning. Nowhere to go w/o good old fossil fuels.

What a strange idea to build an el camino (unibody pickup) for a flagman ev by a company... It is not a good pickup. It is not a good SUV. Why? Because Ford sells a lot of pickups? But Ford pickups are actually useful as pickups, Rivian is not.

Many people and myself included, would love to see Lake Powell drained. It serves little purpose and we would be better without it. As a bonus, we'd get wonderful Glen Canyon back.

I am in the same boat as this woman, probably got a few good months left. I am planning self deliverance with helium as soon as symptoms become significant. For now I am just checking things off my bucket list and trying to have as many adventures as possible (I am an outdoor adventurer and a software engineer).

Whatevs. Joe Rogan, as far as I could tell is some sort of loud macho redneck type that does not have anything interesting to say.

On another note, Spotify is so buggy an application I am surprised how/why anybody is using it. The most common thing is that it crashes on my iPhone. I was considering buying it, but not after discovering how bad/buggy it was.

If they were backpacking, I'd say carbon monoxide from a stove most likely. Otherwise maybe only lightning makes some sense. All this "toxic gasses" seems way too unlikely.

What do you mean "bc is useless". I use it all the time!!

Wow, loved this! Beautiful mystery, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.