I recently came across a video on YouTube that showed me the serious progress that electric overlanding and camping gear has made in the last few years. As a clean tech fanatic who gets a lot of review items from manufacturers, I figured out early on where this was going, but I’ve kept myself grounded by regularly talking to family and friends who are more mainstream. The unavoidable truth has continued to be the dominance of camping gases like propane, butane, and even old-school “white gas.
For example, my 1200-watt solar and battery setup is good enough to even charge my EV, but it takes up the whole back of the Bolt, leaving no cargo space for anything else whatsoever. It also takes 10-15 minutes and some manual labor to set it all up. Compared to screwing a small propane cylinder onto a stove, the difference is night and day.
First off, you don’t need to plan ahead to have gas in a cylinder of whatever size. With propane, it’s pretty easy to overestimate how much gas is left in a little lantern cylinder or even a bigger one measured in gallons. You can pretty easily get out in the boondocks and find out to your horror halfway through cooking a great camping meal that you had less than you thought, and be hours away from the store.
Another huge benefit to electric camp cooking is versatility. Instead of being stuck with only using flames, you can do microwaves , toaster ovens, crock pots, waffle irons, sandwich grillers, mixers, and basically anything you can use at home. For heating, you have the option of using a small space heater, electric heating pads/blankets, and a heat pump.It used to be that a big battery setup required knowledge of low voltage wiring, Ohm’s law, and electrical safety.
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