Re: [EVDL] EV RV trailer?

[Robert Bruninga via EV]

Actually, I just remembered my dad's ONE=WHEEL trailer.  That was rigid to
the car and could then only have to articulate vertically... but then
having a high wheel and suspension in the middle of the RV space is a
downer...

I wonder what the laws are on those?  You couls really smak some things
during a slow sharp turn if it was too long.

Bob

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Lee Hart via EV  wrote:

> Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
>
>> Forget that solar trailer lunacy... what I want to build is an RV trailer
>> for the BOLT.
>>
>> I want to add a complex sliding panel system to streamline the car with
>> the
>> trailer so that they become one for aerodynimics, but can make a
>> reasonable
>> turn and handle dips in the road too.
>>
>
> That does sound challenging. I wonder if it might be easier to build the
> trailer so you back the Bolt into it with its rear wheels inside the
> trailer (not on the ground). Then lock the Car in place. Remove the back
> tires from the car for ground clearance, and so it still sits level to have
> proper front wheel alignment. Now you have a 4-wheel motor home. :-)
>
> Still a lot of work.
>
> I've thought about this sort of thing, too. I think a better approach
> would be the one that Dave Peterson used to build the Ultravan motor home.
> He was an aircraft designer, so he built his motor home out of sheet
> aluminum, riveted together. It looked like the fuselage of an airplane;
> very light and streamlined. Then he removed the drive train from a Chevy
> Corvair, and mounted them in the Ultravan. The end result was an
> aerodynamic 22' motor home that weighed about the same and got the same gas
> mileage as the Corvair donor car.
>
> http://www.corvair.org/chapters/ultravan/
>
> Do the same sort of thing, but use a Bolt or your favorite car as a donor.
>
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> our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory,
> and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry
> --
> Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartel
> l
> MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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Re: [EVDL] EV RV trailer?

[Lee Hart via EV]

Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:

Forget that solar trailer lunacy... what I want to build is an RV trailer
for the BOLT.

I want to add a complex sliding panel system to streamline the car with the
trailer so that they become one for aerodynimics, but can make a reasonable
turn and handle dips in the road too.


That does sound challenging. I wonder if it might be easier to build the 
trailer so you back the Bolt into it with its rear wheels inside the 
trailer (not on the ground). Then lock the Car in place. Remove the back 
tires from the car for ground clearance, and so it still sits level to 
have proper front wheel alignment. Now you have a 4-wheel motor home. :-)


Still a lot of work.

I've thought about this sort of thing, too. I think a better approach 
would be the one that Dave Peterson used to build the Ultravan motor 
home. He was an aircraft designer, so he built his motor home out of 
sheet aluminum, riveted together. It looked like the fuselage of an 
airplane; very light and streamlined. Then he removed the drive train 
from a Chevy Corvair, and mounted them in the Ultravan. The end result 
was an aerodynamic 22' motor home that weighed about the same and got 
the same gas mileage as the Corvair donor car.


http://www.corvair.org/chapters/ultravan/

Do the same sort of thing, but use a Bolt or your favorite car as a donor.

--
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all
our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory,
and a sterner sense of justice than we do. -- Wendell Berry
--
Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com

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