Join us as we explore the world in our carbon-neutral, 4x4 expedition vehicle called The EcoRoamer. We are happy to share our travel adventures, family memories and homeschooling experiences as we journey down the road less traveled.
Originally Posted by winkosmosis Have you considered armoring the solar cells with Lexan? How about Lexan windows for that matter? Hi Winkomosis, The windows are already double pane acrylic. It’s nice because it keeps them from shattering, but we took the truck out to the Michigan U.P. (great trip!) at the end of August 2008, before […]
Originally Posted by Travelmore The roll up door is brilliant. Does it allow you to close off the area when the poptop is down, preventing items stored up there from falling? Access to the roof also has to be a great advantage when you need to clean the solar panels. Hi Travelmore, Sorry for the VERY […]
Originally Posted by shortbusadventure I saw this rig, pretty much complete in September. I just happened upon it in Truckee, California. We were on our way back from BurningMan Festival. They had apparently been there as well. Got a quick tour, Amazing. Hope to see it again. Thanks for chiming in. I remember our Truckee conversation […]
Nothing like a bit of peer pressure to kick a chronic procrastinator into action! SORRY GUYS! I have been very delinquent in my ExPo duties over the past few months. I know that there are a lot of you out there that have invested a lot of time into following our build, and want to […]
At the center of our adventure is the incredible EcoRoamer. We call it: “The world’s first carbon-neutral, 4wd, family friendly, expedition vehicle”. We spent two-and-a-half years building it in 2007/2008, with the amazing help of Jeff Kuhl and his family in Sturgis, Michigan. Jay designed the truck from the ground up to run on solar […]
We made a lot of great progress over the past week. While most of Elkhart county are working “4-10’s” these days, Jeff & the guys have been working almost “7-12’s” for the past 3+ weeks. The good news is that the end is almost in sight… We got the entire camper insulated now. Most of […]
The Pop-top is done and it’s AWESOME!!! It adds a whole other ‘ROOM’ to the truck. I’m so happy with how it has turned out. It took a LOT of bizarre engineering and aluminum, but it all works… I’ve posted up lots of new pictures of the shutter door in it’s various positions in the […]
Originally Posted by SGNellett Did I read that right? You are having all this done to the cab AFTER the camper is done? Seems to me it’d be easier to do the cab stretch first, no? I think you’re reading the thread backwards. That posting was from well over a year ago…
Here’s the other 7 solar panels on the main roof: 1.5kW overall. (theoretical) They are going to get some rub rails to keep branches from ripping them off or damaging them. Time will tell how well that works…
This week marks a fairly epic milestone in the development of the truck. We’ve started installing the interior! The major work over the past two weeks has been the pop-top and the electrical. (both of those now link to the newly organized photo galleries) The pop-top was a bit of a scary affair. Any day that you wake […]