Electric Motorhomes - coming soon but should you consider them?
Electric Motorhomes - three examples that will be here soon
Electric motorhomes are coming - very soon. But are these just fantasy or is this a real world solution? And would you buy one? This week on StressLess Camping RV Podcast episode 329 we look at three electric motorhomes that are really going to be here soon and share our experience.
We also upgraded our RV office - again! Is this week’s gadget the final solution?
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Mentioned on this episode
We got to drive Thor’s prototype hybrid electric motorhome
Tony’s review of the Entegra Embark hybrid motorhome
Our initial look at the Coachmen RVEX electric motorhome
Our look at the AC Future AI-THd all-electric Class A motorhome
Our new height-adjustable bedside desks
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Automated transcript of StressLess Camping RV podcast episode 329
Peggy
Electric motorhomes are coming.
Tony
Very soon. But are these just a fantasy or is this a real world solution?
Peggy
And would you buy one?
Tony
This week on the Stressless Camping RV podcast.
Peggy
Episode 329.
Tony
We look at three electric motorhomes that we actually saw at open house.
Peggy
They're really coming. They're gonna be here soon.
Tony
Yeah, for real.
Peggy
So we share our experience with those.
Tony
Yes. And we also upgraded our RV office.
Peggy
Again.
Tony
Is this the final solution?
Peggy
Who knows?
Tony
You can find this week's episode along with the show notes, links to the actual RV manufacturers, discounts, deals, and so much more at our home on the web at stressescamping.com Don't forget to like.
Peggy
And share and thank you for joining us for episode 329.
Peggy
Stressless Camping.
Tony
I'm Tony.
Peggy
I'm Peggy.
Tony
We're two RV industry veterans who travel part time.
Peggy
In this Rockwood Mini Lite that changes every week.
Tony
That's funny, that's what I was thinking. Looking to share big adventures, RV office tips, and help you with great tips.
Peggy
Tricks.
Tony
Discs.
Peggy
We have, we'll talk more about it when we get to the gadget segment, but we have done a new, another change.
Peggy
You might even see it in the corner of the camera with our Office space.
Tony
Yes. Yeah. We're always looking for some better way to do things. So do you work out of the road?
Tony
I don't know. Share if you, you know, if you have an RV office space, we have our stresses campers Facebook group.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
Share your pictures. We'll share ours.
Tony
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Peggy
Yeah. We'd like to see what your setup is so we can decide what to do next. Yeah.
Tony
Right.
Peggy
This isn't the perfect.
Tony
The never ending change of offices.
Peggy
Every time we do something, we're like, okay, this is is it. We got it.
Tony
Yeah.
Tony
And then.
Peggy
And then we go, you know what would be even better? You know what is even better? The fact that we are sitting here, all the lights on, the refrigerator's running, the air conditioner gets turned on when it gets warm out here in our RV, in our side yard, not our backyard or our front yard, because those have been full with boondockers.
Tony
Welcome, guests, including one that has a master volt power system from ABC Upfitters.
Tony
And they've, they were here, what, a week?
Peggy
Yes. Ish.
Tony
Steve and Kathy, nice to have you.
Peggy
We miss you already.
Tony
Yeah, we already miss you. They just left this morning, but Steve and Kathy have the same floor plan, our Rockwood Mini Lite 2506. And they were just completely off the grid the whole week.
Peggy
Yep.
Tony
Had zero issues.
Tony
It's a great system. Runs their lights and air conditioner and all of that stuff perfectly fine.
Peggy
Yep.
Tony
We talk about our system all the time, but there is another proof in the pudding that these systems just work. How big a system is it?
Peggy
As big as you need it.
Tony
Or as affordable as you want it. They can custom tailor a system to your camping style. So if it's just, I want to be able to chill my fridge eight hours before I go boondocking and be able to run the furnace the whole weekend, they can do that.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
You want to be a nut like us and run the air conditioner and all the lights and all of those things, they can do that.
Peggy
Our friends Pat and Rose, they do have a fifth wheel and so they had room for a really big system and that's what they wanted and I think two months ago they said they hadn't plugged in in two months.
Tony
Yeah, isn't that crazy? So anyway, great systems, great people, they actually answer the phone, they do provide answers if you have questions, they listen to what you do and what your camping style is and they're also upgradable. So let's say you start small and then you're like, well, I kind of do wish I had gotten a bigger system.
Peggy
Maybe you want to spend the week at Balloon Fiesta, like Patrick and Wendy, and then you need to be able to make it through that whole week. Yeah. With those really early mornings.
Tony
Anyway, if you want that kind of reliability in your solar and lithium power system, give our friends at ABC Upfitters a call. They're at 574-333-32-25.
Peggy
That's 574-333-3225 or find the show notes or QR code somewhere. That gives you a link to our website that has more information. Yep.
Tony
Well, speaking of electricity.
Peggy
Oh boy.
Tony
We saw three legitimate coming soon electric motorhomes at RV Open House last month.
Peggy
Yeah, a few weeks ago. Yeah.
Tony
So we thought, you know, it's kind of, for a while, there was a lot of talk about EVs. It's kind of quieted down.
Tony
And as you know, if you follow the news, changes to how much the EVs are being subsidized, things like that, right? But electric motor homes, it takes a while to bring one of these to market, and three companies are pretty much going to be doing it. Thor, Coachman, which is part of Forest River, and then an independent company called AC Future.
Peggy
Future.
Tony
I know.
Tony
So let's start with the first one under Thor. Thor owns Jayco, and that's also Integra coach. So we had looked at the Jayco Embark and then Thor was like, nah, we're going to sell these under Integra instead. So it's the Integra Embark.
Peggy
Is this the one we drove last year?
Tony
This is the one we drove last year.
Peggy
Okay, well, you drove.
Tony
Yeah, we have a link to the, we've talked about this a few times. We got to drive the really rough prototype of this. And I was very, very impressed with the thinking that went into this.
Tony
It was clearly someone who understands this whole market and the future and all that stuff and put together a neat prototype. But it was very rough prototype. It was based on a chassis from a company called Harbinger. Harbinger makes industrial chassis, so like delivery trucks and that kind of stuff. And they're EV chassis, so it's an electric motor moving the whole truck.
Tony
And that's where Integra got the chassis for this thing. And that is a really good decision because it's a company that that's what they do. They make these electric chassis. But the electric portion of the Integra isn't going to get you very far. It's about, I, what was it, 150 miles on just pure electric.
Peggy
Okay.
Tony
But wait. They thought of that. So they put a little gasoline four-cylinder engine in this thing as well. So when you get close to the end of the electric range, bing, bang, boom, gasoline generator turns on.
Tony
And now you keep going and they claim the range is 450 to 500 miles. If you add the electric and the gas.
Peggy
Now, that electric 150 miles, that suits most RVers because there's a KOA survey. Did I say that? All the letters, KOA.
Peggy
There was a KOA survey that found that the average RVer only travels 72 miles from home anyway. So if your average, or I don't mean this to go out wrong, the below average, if you drive below the average number of miles, you might make it just fine to your campsite.
Tony
Yeah, I mean that then the the, you know, EV just as a pure EV would be fine. I could also see, like, let's say you have kids in sports or, or band. Go clarinet players and saxophone players or whatever.
Tony
You could use this as the commuter vehicle for that. And the nice thing, if you do that, is you have a bathroom and you have a kitchen and all of that. And this Integra has a huge storage compartment. So the way it's configured, we have a full story at our home. On the web on all three of these at stressescamping.com.
Peggy
So the tubas and drums will fit.
Tony
Tubas and drums will fit. And the way it's configured, the front is a two-seat cockpit, basically, you know, two, like, Captain's chairs. Then a dinette right behind that. Then a kitchen on the roadside and a bathroom.
Peggy
No.
Tony
And storage on the campsite. Then the bathrooms kind of splits this rig in half. Sort of kind of.
Peggy
Oh, my favorite.
Tony
Sort of kind of.
Peggy
Yeah. And then the favorite layout. Yeah.
Tony
The bedrooms in the back.
Tony
So you have to step up to the bed because it's over a big storage compartment in the back. You could put bikes or tubas or drum kits, things like that in the back.
Peggy
Oh, wait. So if you're not the band mom, you could put electric bikes or bicycles for when you actually go camping or chairs or fire pits or firewood or.
Tony
Yeah, all that stuff.
Peggy
Oh, okay. I was only seeing tubas there.
Tony
No, no, no. You could put all kinds of stuff. This thing was given, was chosen by Time Magazine as one of their best inventions of 2025.
Tony
But so are all kinds of crazy other stuff like robots and a drone and some ways of growing coffee for climate change and just all kinds of crazy stuff.
Peggy
All kinds of things to make the world go round.
Tony
Absolutely. So the drive train in that, the engine, the gas engine is a 1.4 liter little gas engine. Basically it's a generator.
Tony
It's sort of a larger generator. And this is not, Unlike how a railroad locomotive works, the railroad locomotive is actually an EV with an enormous generator aboard. And so it's a proven technology. Makes a lot of sense. The one question I had is the engine is like under the back compartment and I wonder how easily it can be serviced.
Tony
And that, you know, everyone says, of course, oh, this is easy to service. But no new car tends to be, right? I mean, it's like, Back in my day. We used to, like if you opened the hood of a car and dropped a quarter, it would land on the ground. Nowadays, you'd lose that quarter.
Peggy
You used to be able to crawl in those compartments.
Tony
Yeah, my old F-150 with a straight six, I could literally sit on the wheel well and work on the engine. Anyway, neither here nor there.
Peggy
So this is all electric. So if you did drive a short enough distance that you only needed the electricity, can you charge that at the campground when you get there?
Tony
Yes, and they claim 11 hours to fully charge the battery portion on 50 amp service.
Peggy
Okay.
Tony
Now, this stuff, I like this thing. It's very attractive. We saw, oh, I saw it.
Tony
That's right. You weren't with me when I saw it at open house.
Peggy
The final one.
Tony
Yeah, the Integra version.
Peggy
I only saw the kind of empty one that you drove last year.
Tony
Yeah, yeah. Well, the Integra, I mean, it was nice. It was very international feeling.
Tony
Felt like good quality. There's a lot of things I really liked about it. The weird thing is it had an induction cooktop and a propane cooktop and a propane heater and a Coleman Mach air conditioner. And it's like, why? Why would you.
Peggy
Innovation and then no Innovation. Yeah.
Tony
It's like you could have put a better air conditioner. You could have just gone with a induction cooktop as a lot of motorhomes do nowadays.
Peggy
Yeah, a lot of times if you're saying, here's our electric motorhome, it's like all, well, without with the maybe backup motor of course, but then everything inside is electric because it's electric.
Tony
Yeah, a lot of class A's don't have a propane system at all on them anymore.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
And they figured out like there are diesel heaters, so if it's a class A diesel, it runs on diesel. There's gasoline heaters that for example, Truma makes that they could have used that they could have eliminated the propane system altogether and didn't. And also, I mean, if you're going to want to be off the grid, how much less efficient can you get than the Coleman Mach Air Conditioner?
Tony
So, man, there's some things. The neat thing about this is what they're going to do is the first batch of these are going to get shipped to a rental company and they're going to rent them and get feedback from the people renting them. But are they renters who are not familiar with RVs? I don't know.
Peggy
Oh, that's a good question.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
Anyway, that is the Integra Embark.
Peggy
Embark. They can embark on a journey. Yeah.
Tony
Embark on that. Okay, next one is the Coachman R-V-E-X. R-V-E-X. Rex. So this thing is also based on an existing chassis.
Tony
It's GM makes this product called bright drop. It's essentially an electric.
Peggy
It's a delivery van, right? That's how UPS and.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
Whoever.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
It's FedEx and whatever. Those big vans that deliver.
Tony
Well, it's smaller because it's sort of a class.
Peggy
Like the Amazon van.
Tony
Yeah, kind of like an Amazon van. So it's a Class B. It's built by General Motors in their bright drop division. They have a Chevy.
Tony
Steering wheel, so it kind of looks, you know, it's kind of Chevy-ish but it is clearly a delivery van. This front doors are like those sliding doors. In fact, the weird thing, there's no armrests on the passenger side because that's.
Peggy
How you get in and out.
Tony
Yeah, it's, I mean, the good thing is if you hustle a side hustle and deliver packages, you could have a bathroom, a kitchen, and some chairs.
Peggy
So, You could be Uber Eats and just live and die by the, yeah.
Tony
Keep the grub hot while you're driving around. Or you could be Uber Eats and make the meals right at people's houses.
Peggy
Now that's an idea. Cold sodas and warm food.
Tony
Ooh, I dig it. I dig it.
Peggy
Delivered to your home.
Tony
Yeah. Anyway, this is only an EV.
Tony
There is no gas whatsoever. No propane. No gasoline or diesel, no petroleum fuels.
Peggy
Okay, if the other one only has a 75 mile range and this one only has electricity, I hope it has a better range.
Tony
It does.
Tony
The Coachman people we talked to said that prototype they've been driving around, they're getting about 275 miles range.
Peggy
What's the difference? Because it's not heavy?
Tony
It's lighter. Yeah, that That Harbinger chassis is heavy and it's a much smaller RV.
Peggy
Okay.
Tony
And probably a much bigger battery, I'm suspecting.
Peggy
But also rechargeable at the campground.
Tony
Yeah. So they claim 12 hours on a 50 amp circuit.
Peggy
That's a good, I mean, that's a good 11 hours for 70 miles and 12 hours for 270 miles. Yeah. Not bad.
Tony
And because it's all electric, they use a Gree heat pump air conditioner. It's an induction cooktop.
Tony
So there's a thousand amp hours of battery just for the coach part, the, you know, the RV stuff, like the fridge and the induction cooktop and all of that, the air conditioner. And then there's a separate battery that they call a chassis battery that makes it go. I don't know why they don't integrate them, but they don't.
Peggy
Well, because someone would cook themselves to a dead battery and not be able to drive.
Tony
Well, that's true, I guess so.
Tony
Yeah, some. A lot of someone would. At least this one. Oh, that Integra. No solar panels.
Tony
I didn't understand them.
Peggy
Again, the first one. Yeah, no solar panels. So they only have the. Huh?
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
Isn't that weird?
Peggy
That is weird.
Tony
This thing does have a bunch of solar panels on it. It was a thousand watts of solar on it, so.
Tony
We still have more than that.
Peggy
We have more. Of course, our trailer is bigger than a van.
Tony
Yeah, it is. And it has a slide.
Tony
And that's something this thing didn't have.
Peggy
No slide.
Tony
Neither the Integra or this, the RVX, have no slide room.
Peggy
Yeah. So class Bs are.
Peggy
I know that they're great for some people. I go in them and I. I don't normally feel claustrophobic, but I don't think I would like to. Camp or travel, maybe as a solo, but not two people. Everything is just so squishy in a van. Yeah.
Peggy
To me. And it's perfect for some people, but.
Tony
Do you remember the coolest feature about that RVX?
Peggy
That would be the back window that goes opaque with a touch of a button. Yeah.
Tony
So the windows, like, goes opaque. Clear. Opaque. Clear. There's a remote for it.
Tony
And the cool thing I found out after the fact. Is that it comes with a projector so you can use that on that back window. So that's where the TV is.
Peggy
Remember, oh when we went to Flagstaff, when we went to the Overland Expo, there was a trailer that had a shower wall. Oh yeah.
Peggy
The little shower wall did that.
Tony
That worked.
Peggy
Oh the whole bathroom wall did that.
Tony
Yeah, yeah. Oh, doggone, I don't remember.
Peggy
I'll put some pictures up right there.
Tony
It's the same kind of idea. This thing had good cargo space because, you know, it is a delivery van. There's two couches in the back that face one another and you can like put bikes or kayaks or things like that. The interior had a lot of attention paid to being light and sound deadening because again, it's a delivery van.
Tony
Do you remember the bath in this thing?
Peggy
I remember it being very small.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
And it's a wet bath. It, you know, on one side only.
Peggy
I I. When I don't know how this could happen in a b van, but I really love the bathroom dividing the bedroom.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
And I know that people don't love that, but it's. It works really well for us.
Peggy
And I know you. That would be impossible. And not impossible. Not.
Tony
That would be a challenge.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
Yeah. Although the Grand Design lineage Class B kind of does that. It's a convertible space. So, granted, I still think those Grand Design motorhomes are the neatest things out there.
Peggy
They're just not electric, so they don't go in this week.
Tony
No, exactly.
Peggy
Okay. Is that all there is to that one?
Tony
Yes.
Peggy
Okay. Okay.
Tony
The last one, I'm going to give you a caution. This thing was the neatest looking thing.
Tony
You liked it a lot, right?
Peggy
It was. Very interesting. Yeah, I I don't know if I liked it.
Tony
Okay.
Peggy
Very interesting. The.
Tony
The caution is since RV open house, I have made numerous attempts to contact the company. I've called them. Their numbers are disconnected.
Tony
I've reached out to them and haven't heard back, so who knows? We're not sure. It's one of these startups.
Peggy
Yeah. And it was like a three-year prototype.
Peggy
That, you know, they didn't, they didn't tell us when it would be releasing.
Tony
No, they did. They said December this year.
Peggy
Oh, okay.
Tony
December 2026.
Tony
This thing was. Okay, so basically, once again, it was built on a chassis from a, another manufacturer, kind of, sorta from a company called ree, which, again, makes delivery truck chassis. They're planning to have 100 kilowatt hour battery in the production model, which they claim will give it a 300 mile range now. Now here's the thing. A battery that big on a 50 amp charge is not going to recharge in the eight hours that they claim it will.
Tony
So I'm not sure. The current one, they said that prototype, the prototype we saw, they claim had a million miles on it.
Peggy
Yeah, they said they've been driving around like crazy for three years.
Tony
Yeah, it had 250 miles. They claim there'll be an electric and a gas, diesel and a gas version, too.
Peggy
Not one RV that can switch between diesel and gas. Right, right, right. The way we said it before. This will come in a version that runs on gasoline and it will come in a version that runs on diesel.
Tony
Yeah, you pick.
Tony
Yeah, it's up to you when you're ordering it from the factory if they in fact exist.
Peggy
I might have missed something. Isn't it electric?
Tony
Well, this one is, but there's also a diesel version or a gas.
Peggy
So then there will also be one that runs on just electric.
Tony
Correct. That's what. And that's what we saw.
Peggy
Okay.
Tony
So the first wacky thing is the slide room on the on the camp on the roadside.
Tony
It went out like eight feet.
Peggy
Yeah. Okay. So it's not really a slide room.
Tony
Yeah, that's true.
Peggy
It's a it's sort of origami. Yeah. Yeah. It was an extension that went out about eight feet. So it was essentially a second you know, a whole second width.
Peggy
But the way that it folded up, it didn't slide into the inside part. It. The. The. Let's see if I can remember which way the walls folded in against the outer wall.
Peggy
Yeah. And then the floor folded up against that, and then the whole thing pushed in. So, yes, it slid in, but all the. The box really folded up against the outer wall.
Tony
Yeah, yeah, that's a fair.
Tony
And underneath this thing were these girders to hold the thing together. It was like bridge girders. I mean, my gosh, it was tank-like. And then they did... So one of the things never ever, not ever to do is to put supports under a slide room because if the RV goes down, yeah.
Peggy
Like if the tire goes low or something. Yeah.
Tony
The supports will. It can really damage the slide mechanism. But this thing has supports built right in, hydraulic support.
Tony
So once it. And I can imagine that with that much size cantilevered out, that it's nuts in terms of. Of the stresses there, so.
Peggy
Okay, but wait, there's more. Oh, much.
Peggy
There's another extension that goes out the back of the RV. Yeah. Another. I don't know if it was eight feet.
Tony
No, it's eight feet.
Peggy
Yeah. That goes out and extends. So driving down the road, the thing's only 25 feet long, right? With four-wheel steering and whatever, eight feet wide. But then when it's out, it's 16 feet wide and 25 plus eight, 33 feet long.
Peggy
And so it does that same origami. It's actually like a Murphy bed goes up against the back wall. The walls fold in, the floor and the ceiling fold in, and it all squishes into the 25 foot.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
Yeah.
Peggy
Very, very interesting and different. No, you are not going in to the bathroom.
Tony
No, actually, you can.
Peggy
Actually, that's right. You can get to the kitchen in the bathroom.
Peggy
You can't get to the bed because it's folded up against the wall. And then it has all the origami in the way.
Tony
I wonder what they do with the furniture.
Peggy
That is what I didn't know. There's living space.
Peggy
Furniture would have to pile up in the kitchen or something. So maybe you can't get to the bathroom just because. Because the kitchen's full of furniture. I don't know. We didn't see it folded in.
Peggy
It was just an interesting concept, but obviously furniture doesn't stay in the living room when it folds up.
Tony
Yeah, because it just smacks up against the side. The interesting thing, there's a few things about this that I liked. The way that RE company makes these chassis is each wheel is kind of its own separate assembly with a suspension and engine and all that. That was kind of cool.
Tony
It also, the claim from the guy we talked to, is that they can pull using a water generation system, like 15 gallons of water per day out of the air. Isn't that cool?
Peggy
In Indiana or in New Mexico?
Tony
Yeah, there is a question, right? Yeah, there's no way they're getting 15, there isn't 15 gallons of water in the air here in New Mexico.
Peggy
Well, maybe today it's pretty cloudy.
Tony
Yeah, it is. Yeah, that's true. And then it has a 100 gallon fresh tank and a 50 gallon gray and a 50 black, but something that I thought was awesome for years, it uses the gray water to flush the toilet or that air water.
Peggy
Interesting.
Tony
And then there's a dishwasher and a washer dryer and the fridge is a 12 volt. It was a Furion fridge.
Peggy
It just seems like a lot of work for an overnight you'd stop.
Tony
Yeah, I. Yeah, that's true.
Peggy
Seems like a place maybe not even destination, but maybe, you know, no less than a week to unfold it and put all the furniture.
Tony
Yeah, you're moving all. I mean, who likes to move furniture, right? So you're moving all this furniture in and out. Well, I mean, you could have no furniture and just have a yoga studio. Oh, you could just put, like, yoga mats or.
Tony
I don't know. You do you, boo. Whatever.
Peggy
Folding camp chairs.
Tony
Yeah, you could do that.
Tony
You could just take the furniture out because it's not secured, right? Take the furniture out and use camp chairs. Why wouldn't you? So. And it.
Tony
Did I mention the dishwasher? Yeah, I think so. Induction cooktop. I like that they use a mini split for the climate control. So there's two indoor units for a total of 36, 000 BTU of.
Tony
Cooling and heating. So it was the another neat thing. It was designed by Pininfarina, which is an Italian design firm, does a lot of car bodies and stuff. So we thought it was neat. I'm like I say, when they were serving beer, she can't beat that.
Tony
My concern is, is the company gonna still be here? We'll see. You know, we can update you on it. But that's the, that those are the three.
Peggy
I know now.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
So again, what would, what do you think? Would you buy an electric motorhome? It looks like they're a reality coming to the market. There's no reason that at least two of these aren't absolutely coming.
Peggy
So I think I'm ready to wait a few more years before I pull the trigger on something like that.
Tony
Yep.
Peggy
I want, I want all the kinks worked out.
Tony
Well, they haven't been worked out of regular RVs yet. That's why we keep changing our office.
Peggy
Okay, so we introduced and said that we had a new gadget. Well, we had a new office, kind of. We have once again done a little bit different way of organizing our workspace. You know, we work on the road. All the arguments for whether you need Wi-Fi and whether you need computers and whether you need all that stuff, when you're working from the road, you need all that stuff.
Peggy
And one of the reasons, one of the things that really appealed to us in the 2506 FK as opposed to the 2205 that we had before was the dinette that we're sitting in right now.
Tony
Yeah, and it came with the table.
Peggy
Right.
Tony
But the table is now the newer, newer, newer version comes with an adjustable height table where the tabletop kind of Ouija boards around. That's pretty cool.
Peggy
That's pretty cool. But this dinette came with a table. It does fold all the way down to make into a bed and it's completely detached from the floor. So if we wanted to take it outside or taken in the house and use it for a cooler stand like it is right now, we could do that. But what we found is that because it wasn't height adjustable, the height that you eat dinner is not ergonomically correct for the height that you work on a computer.
Peggy
And we do a lot of sitting and typing. And so our necks and our backs and everything was getting all out of whack when we would sit for a day or two at the dinette. So we realized that we had to change something. We did get taller cushions. We replaced our cushions.
Peggy
We thought that would help, but it didn't help enough. And so we have, for the time being, because you never know with us, we have taken the dinette table out and put it in the house. And we found these flexi sport H7 pneumatic adjustable bedside tables. So these are the kind of table that you some people will slide them under a couch. They're sort of like a hospital table because the leg will go under the bed and then the table top can come up to the patient or person lying in bed.
Peggy
And the great thing about these is that they are pneumatically adjustable. We'll put a separate video. I would do it right now but I don't want to knock Tony's laptop on the floor. But they are adjustable. We'll show you some height differences.
Tony
So they can go to standing height.
Peggy
They can go to standing height. So we can work sitting down as shown in the video that's showing right now and they can work as a stand-up desk. We seem to do better when we each have our own individual workstation.
Tony
Well we're different heights.
Peggy
We're different heights. We don't have to worry about moving one person out of the way to get out of the dinette. These have these cute little rollers on them.
Tony
Yeah, these really tiny wheels.
Peggy
And so they move quite easily and so we can roll them in and roll them out as we need to to get in and out of the dinette.
Peggy
But there's only a leg on the, what we're gonna call the back side of the table. So that is the side that we push up against where we're sitting now so that we have our legs free to get in and out of the dinette. And so far, these have worked really, really well for us.
Tony
I have an adjustable height desk at home and I like this better than that.
Peggy
Yeah, he has, he actually whined because I said we need to take these tables in the camper and use them.
Peggy
And he said, but I'm enjoying it in my office.
Tony
Yeah, I I have liked it very, very much.
Peggy
Now he's gonna get another one for his office.
Tony
No, I have the adjustable height desk.
Peggy
Yeah, we did just get an adjustable height desk in his office.
Peggy
I have the adjustable height workspace on top of my desk in my office. So we all have, you know, now we all, everywhere we work, we have the opportunity to stand while we work. And these are, seem to work really well. They fit together in the dinette. We each have our own workspace.
Tony
I think they feel high quality. They don't, they're not wiggly, they're not cheap feeling. They seem to be well made.
Peggy
The whole leg is all metal and then the top is easy clean.
Tony
Yeah, it's like a...
Tony
I don't know, I think it's a plastic wrapped particle board or something.
Peggy
But it's a big enough tabletop, it will hold two. I'm pretty sure I can get my two monitors on it. I'm pretty sure I should have actually tried that. Maybe I'll do that with a picture before we release.
Peggy
And it seems to be maybe we have the perfect office space now.
Tony
Yeah, I do like that we can stand finally. That's been a, I'm used to that at home where my watch says, dude, you got to stand up. And so I do. And I have missed that on the road on a really heavy work day.
Tony
And now we've solved that. These are the one thing They're beefy, but they're not light. They're not super heavy.
Peggy
They're not super heavy, but they're like 25 pounds a piece. So we were wondering, you know, how does that compare to the dinette table?
Peggy
And we haven't traveled with them yet.
Tony
Right.
Peggy
So we obviously don't want to leave them rollers down. So we'll have to figure out if we just flip them upside down or if we have to put them on the bed or we'll have to figure out how travel is going to be.
Tony
We'll figure out how to travel.
Tony
With them. But so far, we like them.
Peggy
Yeah. So I mentioned a moment ago that, you know, some people don't want to be connected, but some people do. And if you work or if you just want to stay connected on the road, our question for last week was, how do you stay connected on the road?
Tony
There are some good answers. And by the way, you answer those in our fun and friendly stresses campers Facebook.
Peggy
Right. And so thank you to those of you who have answered and Thank you to those of you who go camping to not be connected. That's super cool.
Tony
As I always say, there's 31 flavors in the ice cream store. There's not one right answer for everybody.
Peggy
Exactly. And so this week's question, we were wondering how would you handle a medical situation on the road?
Tony
Yeah, and that can include how do you get your prescriptions if you take prescriptions or what would you do if something bad happened?
Peggy
Right.
Tony
So you can answer that. That fun question at our fun and friendly Stressless Campers Facebook group. Ask your own questions, post your own videos, all of that.
Peggy
So it's...
Peggy
Yeah, share your camping stories. That's what we want that to be. We love to see people out there camping and being stressless. And it's not only about coming in just once a week to answer our question. It's about sharing your stories and sharing your pictures and asking your own questions.
Tony
Yeah, if you have questions, whatever.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
Of course, we also do a once a week newsletter, which is absolutely free full of the stories, tips, tricks, discounts, all of that that we find during the week and share with you. And of course, we only do that once a week because we ain't got time to do it more than once a week. And also, I don't understand the daily newsletters.
Tony
Yeah, we don't have that much stuff.
Peggy
We know that daily newsletters don't get read. We know.
Tony
Yeah, they really don't.
Peggy
Once a week, we try to...
Tony
They don't get read either. But at least we're not spending them.
Peggy
We try to make it a short enough newsletter that is really things that are, you know, interesting or we we hope are interesting to somebody. But remember also we hide things in there. Things like when we have giveaways, when we have things to give away, or we put a link to where we are camping so that if so that we don't have a situation like we've had a couple times this year.
Peggy
The day after we leave, we find out we were camped a mile from someone who really wanted to meet us. Yeah. So we're trying to make that better.
Tony
Yep. You'll also find links to the articles about this week's electric RVs in our show notes at stressescamping.com Look for the Winnebago with a microphone, which is the podcast page.
Peggy
Yep.
Tony
And this happens to be episode 329.
Peggy
That's right. You can also find on that same website, stressescamping.com, our favorite products and services where you will find our favorite products and services.
Tony
Wow.
Peggy
Many of those have discounts and so if we have been able to work with a company that offers you a discount.
Tony
Twist and arms.
Peggy
That's where those discounts will be. There's link to our Amazon store. There's link to our logo gear.
Peggy
All those things.
Tony
Yeah, you could buy stuff like this shirt.
Peggy
You could buy things, yeah, that I don't have on today. Anything that's on that website is things that we know or have experience with and believe in. We don't just take money to put junk, I almost said a bad word, on our website.
Tony
No, of course we are in all the social places too, but you can start at stressescamping.com and from there jump off to wherever you enjoy wasting time just like we do.
Peggy
If you are listening by audio, thank you, your podcast listeners, and you probably already know, but you can subscribe on your favorite podcast catcher and then you'll make sure that you don't miss a single week of the Stresses Camping Podcast.
Tony
Yep, and of course, if you're watching on YouTube, don't forget to like and share and subscribe. And all those things. We also appreciate your comments down below.
Peggy
We do.
Tony
So that's the deal, you know, all the usual YouTube stufferoo.
Peggy
That's right. And whether you're an audio listener, a YouTube watcher or a website reader, we really, really appreciate when you share things that you find that we have said or done or written that you think other people will find value in.
Tony
Yep.
Tony
Well, that's what we have for you this week. I hope you're all charged up about this week's topic. I am. Because It's an electrifying topic.
Peggy
Oh, goodness.
Tony
I know.
Peggy
I thought I was gonna get away with no puns this week.
Tony
Nope, nope, there's always puns. We appreciate you so much. Thank you for being here with us.
Tony
And most of all, stressless camping.
Mark Ferrell
We hope you learned a lot and had some fun and got some tips for your next stressless camping adventure. We're honored by your reviews on Apple podcasts, which helps others find us, too. Don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss out on the adventure and we look forward to your joining us next week. Until then, happy camping.
Tony
Because the bed is kind of a little bit high and.
Peggy
I tried not to. I know.
Tony
I'm saying it.
Peggy
I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Tony
Oh my gosh.
