How could this not end up in the Out of Spec garage! Absolute insanity, high quality, and useful upgrades. Really excited for more electric overlanding vehicles!
How u knew their quality? Bcz they in oregon? These design originally invented by americ🇺🇸ns for years ago. Inspiration out of native's mericans camping culture. Trust me they love it so much
9:07 Sorry, but this is an absolute fail to not tie into power on the truck. +200 kWh on the vehicle and you are going to lug around ANOTHER battery with a tiny bit of energy in it.
I'm sure the manufacturers of the $15k roof-top tent you've been supplied will be pleased to hear that it "looks like shit" compared to Earthcruiser's Hummer installation! 😂
You don't talk smack about a company to one of their ostensible competitors... publicly. _Particularly_ when they've invested $15k of product in you. It seriously makes you look like... not good. Put it that way. Plus you'll quickly gain a reputation. And doors will close. You'll learn. You'll _have to_ learn, if you want career success and longevity.
You’re opposed to honesty? You think because a brand provides promotional product that the user has to tap dance around the truth? I guess your integrity costs a lot less than his…
They sold ~857hummer, what’s the business case? 1% of EV buyer? If they make 20k of profit that is ~180,000$. That’s not a lot. They made custom mold for the side panel, hope they reuse the top section from other product.
I would estimate about 10,000 lbs before adding any gear/water/passengers. Regardless of the range issues (this will of course significantly reduce range due to weight and drag) and the lack of off-road abilities baked into the platform the sheer weight and size will keep to from doing anything more than simple back-roads. Don't look for this on the Rubicon any time soon unless that whisling diesel idiot wants to do one of his "destroy something expensive for clicks' videos.
For those concerned about power there are two smart options for this EV camper: 1. Tow a small trailer with a gas generator and two jerry cans of fuel. Enough to get you charged up even in the dark to get you back onto the road. 2. Similar small trailer with multiple solar panels that you can then plug into a DC to AC power inverter. The benefit here is the ability to charge both the camper and Hummer with no noise or fumes, and without the fear of running out of fuel. A proper purpose-made trailer could also have a 2nd fridge/freezer, additional fresh water supply, storage for gear/clothes, space to mount 1 or 2 ebikes for destination exploring etc... Your only limitation will be grey water dumping, and if there is a toilet on board, black tank disposal. The other huge advantage would be using the Hummer's adjustable suspension to lift/lower the camper off and onto the truck. Assuming it is just a bolt-on job, it wouldn't be too hard to keep the camper on a special rack when not in use, and when needed, just back up under it with the truck and mount it as necessary. Your typical slide-in truck camper uses telescoping legs to do this. Looking forward to seeing this product develop and mature.
@@biglee13m Certainly not out of my price range. However, I am a conservationist. EVs like this one defeat the whole point of what the world needs to do right now; reduce our unsustainable living habits, and our enormous energy and materials use. Maybe if people weren't so narcissistic to make life all about themselves and lived with the greater goal of living in harmony with nature and protecting our one and only home, maybe they wouldn't live such miserable lives to feel like they need to rely on materialism to feel good about themselves.
Cant tie into the vehicles power??? How lame. With 200+ kWh you could have had a heat pump and ac. Something fishy ($ I guess) about Kyle's praise for this camper, it's not great compared to say a slide in on a lightning, I'm sure it costs a fortune. 400ah is nothing for heating. This is a summer only camper.
Wow, stupid amounts of money for something that you can barely use. That thing couldn't go "off-grid" for more than a day or two. So having a charging station nearby doesn't count😂. But I'm sure that it'll sell like crazy.
I'm with you right up until the 'sell like crazy' part. Given how few EV Hummers they've actually sold and that only a small fraction of those will buy this, I would be shocked to actually ever see one in the wild.
But why? So some wealthy people can pretend they're doing something good for the environment by rolling across the wilderness in a $200,000 EV w/ bed camper that weighs over 10,000 lbs? lol... ok. First off, how about not buying the Hummer EV with pitiful 1.6 mi/kWh efficiency in optimal 70 mph highway conditions when a smaller / more efficient truck will do. How about instead of buying a bed camper that's hard to remove, you instead get a small popup camping trailer for $15k (which is basically all this is, but with a price tag 6-7x higher)... and disconnect it when you want to go off-roading? Hell, at least you can disconnect it when you get home and still have a functional truck. Plus the popup trailer would probably be larger, more comfortable, more accessible for old retirees with joint issues, and could potentially be rented / loaned out when not in use so fewer people have to buy these silly wasteful things. You know... using all the useless stuff we make more efficiently so we don't have to make as much This thing clearly isn't meant for general RV users, as I imagine a larger percentage of them couldn't actually climb in and out of this thing day in and day out. For concentrating so much on aero, those side pods don't seem very aerodynamic. They, and the entire unit overall, just add front surface area to the Hummer. Likely better than an RV, but again, you can easily disconnect the RV. For something developed so closely with GM... why does this thing not just plug into one of the Hummer's bed outlets and use 110V electronics instead of including another 6 kWh of battery and 12V electronics? Know what you can use the 6 kWh of batteries they added to this for.... 3-12 PEVs to replace car commuting miles. Ironically you'd probably want to have one of those on hand when you park this behemoth somewhere in town and just want to get around the town quickly and easily without the enormous energy usage and trying to find a place to park this behemoth. Even better, know what you can use the Hummer's 250 Wh battery for, 125-500 PEVs. I bet that'll make a much larger dent on reducing fossil fuels than a single Hummer EV, especially one with this EC on the back.
“Epic” is defined as a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero. Someone needs to up their adjectives.
It drives me crazy as well, along with people starting their sentences with “so,..” as if the are having a conversation. Elocution is in the toilet these days.
@@peterjorgensen3every 50 miles , not on the mountain west. We don't even have gas stations every 50 miles. And you can't rely on one charging station. The chances that it will be operable when you arrive are quite a bit less than the chance of getting gas at a gas station.
@@fox156 That's a good point. Electrify America isn't 100% reliable - at least here in the mountain west. I've never been stranded but definitely been frustrated with EA. The Tesla network works perfectly almost every time. I will say even more reliable than gas pumps. And yes they are about every 50 miles on most major routes and the holes are rapidly being filled, like Pinedale Wyoming for instance, and Baker Nevada/Utah. We still need one in Hanksville Utah, but you could plan around it since green river is so close.
i live in boulder, CO, i see a lot of earthroamers. built trucks for overlanding. all very expensive. i cannot, for the life of me, understand who the customer is for this rig. it's a 12k lb iphone. everything will break. you cannot go off road with this in CO. or on sand. please give me who the end user is. also, saw it at expo, it looks like a UN helmet.
I've noticed with all these EV overlanders or the super expensive g wagon ones are always just talked about while they sit and no videos exist of them actually overlanding lol
Back in the mid 1970’s GM paired their Chevy Blazer and GMC Jimmy with a similar concept from Chinook Mobilodge Inc. However that time you did get the camper body through your GM dealer. It was the Blazer Chalet and the Jimmy Casa Grande.
They said you can charge the vehicle from the EarthCruiser's power. But with those small solar panels on the roof, it would take FOREVER to charge a Hummer. You really would have to engineer your own solar charger. I've seen people throw a bunch of lightweight flexible solar panels in their EV, take them out at the campsite, lay them out, connect in series, and charge a baterry that feeds into an inverter and then into your charge port. But with this EarthCruiser thing, you already have the battery/inverter. But that would all be a pain in the butt.
I now live on Kangaroo Island and just ordered the new MY24 LRSM Polestar, due to arrive in a few weeks. I graduated from CU Boulder in 1995 and worked at the Loveland Reporter-Herald newspaper. Back then I drove a full size 1986 Bronco, a real basic ex-mining vehicle with the 4-litre 6 cylinder, and spent most of my time up the Poudre and Thompson canyons and also North Park fly fishing - fond memories and how times have changed!
looks awesome, just wish it had an ICE. It would be a lot more applicable that way as an overland vehicle. EV is just not where it needs to be as far as charging infrastructure and reliability. but I do love the idea, it's just too bad it won't reach a larger market.
I just saw the frontal crash tests of hummer ev and wow I will not be caught driving in that… my parents just got hit in their 2001 4Runner and came out fine but seeing crash tests just confirms the hummer ev is a joke of safety vehicle and these ev enthusiasts need to really show the crash tests
This was my first year missing overland mountain west in probably 3yrs. EVs definitely are still not the move for overlanding. This is pretty cool, but unpractical.
100 year olds can drive this easier than those 80 foot McMansions we gotta dodge on the freeway! Does it have solar panels in the top? Outboard speakers for field parties? Bear spray jets on each corner? Good job!
Huge miss imho that the house battery is not tied into the GIGANTIC Hummer EV battery. True integration will be when the house battery and the vehicle battery is the same battery
as if you can talk with that hideous Cybertruck that still isn't available from 2019. How many EV trucks Ford and GM put out already and Tesla was the first one to take a deposit. At least they got a cyber whistle and hat for their $100. 😂
