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 not too long ago 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 car would expertise whereas towing it to nothing. The corporate says this means “a 300-mile vary electrical car (EV) used to tow it stays a 300-mile vary EV, and a 25-mpg fuel truck stays a 25-mpg fuel truck.” Check after take a look at has proven that EV vary falls dramatically, often over 50 p.c, whereas towing heavy hundreds like trailers; Lightship’s answer neutralizes this drawback and makes EV towing a sensible, if not costly, actuality.

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The L1 comes with a big 80 kWh battery pack and electrical powertrain. It is 27-feet lengthy and its peak goes from 6 toes, 9 inches tall in Street Mode to 10 toes tall in Camp Mode. It weighs round 7,500 kilos absolutely loaded, which is not dangerous contemplating its dimension and the massive battery on board. The roof and twin awnings are additionally lined with photo voltaic panels to assist maintain 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 annually. 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 is also different makes use of for the L1 whereas it is parked close to your property. Lightship says the L1 can cost your electrical car, which suggests it contains some type of bi-directional charging. With the appropriate software program, it might even energy your own home throughout an outage or act like a financial institution of Tesla Powerwalls that shops photo voltaic power on your residence to make use of all through the day. 

If all this hypothesis has you desperate to safe a spot for the L1, click on right here to begin the precedence reservation course of by way of RVshare.