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Originally Posted by Bob Denman
I LIKE your idea of potentially replacing the generator with a bank of batteries: assuming that you could make them plenty large for storage, yet light enough to keep the rig from tipping over... 
You'd need a whole lot of solar panels. Musk has got a factory in New York State, that is supposed to produce "solar shingles" for the housing industry.
There is probably a lot of useful technology available there! 
Question: Are you planning to keep the traditional chassis powerplant for over the road usage? |
You'd want to keep a conventional power plant at this point..although we're getting close (see Tesla Semi truck).
The batteries included in modern EV's are pretty charge dense and lighter than your average lead-acid batteries for a given amount of storage. You probably could have a decent amount of battery storage for a comparable weight to the genny.
If you were to replace the powertrain and go fully electric you'd have to really find room for batteries (which would probably also lower the CG of the RV which isn't a bad thing). You'd have some extra room because an electric motor of equivalent power to the gas/diesel engine is much smaller (especially if multiples are used to drive more than 1 axle).
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