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A recent video at the Butter_EV YouTube Channel shows that you can do some really cool things with large EV batteries at campsites with a travel trailer, like power an RV’s air conditioning and other systems. This would be especially useful for “boondocking” — camping away from utility connections at RV parks. But … there’s one limitation he ran into that doesn’t make a lot of sense.
For the first part of the video, he explains what kind of experiment he’s trying out: to plug his RV into the truck’s 240V plug in the bed and power the RV while charging the truck. This would be excellent because it would allow the truck to pick up leftover power at an RV park and charge as fast as it can.
He has a mid-sized bumper-pull travel trailer. I didn’t catch the exact model number to …