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Originally Posted by Chance
There is nothing to embrace in RV A/C as far as I know (not yet anyway), and Thor doesn’t actually create anything new themselves. They buy everything and essentially fabricate or assemble an RV. I may be wrong, but don’t know of any appliances or major components built by Thor.
Just recently additional A/C manufacturers have added inverter technology to their window air conditioners, which are closer to an RV A/C in design. No doubt it can be done easily but it adds cost and apparently there is not enough to gain to justify the added cost.
If there is one thing Thor does is keep cost as low as possible for as long as they can. They don’t seem to invest much in innovation, but rather buy successful companies that already took risks.
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agreed, maybe embrace was taken out of context. they should be prompting suppliers to innovate to bring better products to market. thor already got behind the giant battery bank to replace the 8k genny in the tuscany. they ran that ball out first as it were.
with FR and thor being as big as they are, they surely have bean counters looking at every dime to maximize returns.
back in the early 2000s many vehicle assemblers opted to remove glove box light..saved 10-15 dollars on each unit. spread that over 100k units and it adds up. price of vehicles went up to compensate the loss the glove box lights
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