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Old 03-13-2023, 12:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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RV Trailer improvements?

Somebody doing some thinking.
https://www.theautopian.com/lightshi...-ev-camper-rv/

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A pusher trailer.
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This aero setup helps with the trailer’s other headlining feature, its drive system. Located under the sleek body is a self-propulsion system. An electric powertrain is found underneath the camper which houses an electric motor and a 80 kWh battery.
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If that sounds awfully familiar, it’s because this concept is currently being worked on by Airstream and Dethleffs. Both companies have taken camper designs, outfitted them with self-propelled EV gear with 80-kWh, and are marketing their campers as having similar benefits.
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Lightship noodling

Since Lightship is 'aerodynamic', I did a link to it at the Aerodynamics Forum, and went ahead with a preliminary estimation of it's particulars.
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Lightship has also left the door open to anyone who might 'lose' the TV, and loft the roof to create a 'motorhome' with the vestigial boat-tail.
Adding a boat-tailed 'trailer' to the 'motorhome' would allow for super pressure recovery for the new combination, ratcheting up savings to an even higher level.
This would be single-frontal area combination, 'single-hump' aero singularity, which could chase the Cd 0.12 of Walter Lay, of 1933, of which Lightship shares in similarity.

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