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The one important data point that’s missing is the cost of the system; but being a prototype they are not likely to disclose it.


Regardless, it’s difficult to fully appreciate the capabilities without a rough comparison. A 225 Amp-hour X 6-Volt golf cart battery stores about 1,350 Watt-hours, so at 50% useable, it works out to about 675 Watt-hours per traditional battery. It would therefore take about 53 golf cart batteries to equal the 36,000 useable Watt-hours this Thor prototype has available . For what it’s worth, that would be over 3,000 pounds of AGM batteries.


P.S. — The Volta standard system is approximately 1/3 the size since it only has one inverter sized to power a 30-Amp coach (30A X 120V = 3.6 kW). If the retail cost for the Travato Lithium package is in order of $20,000, this Thor with 3 inverter’s and almost 5 times the battery capacity must be in range of $50,000 or more. The one larger alternator is likely the only item that doesn’t cost proportionally more.

That’s a lot of cost, but maybe buyers paying $500,000 wouldn’t mind and extra 10% or so. Thoughts on costs?