Honda's solar-powered trailer is a perfect match for EV owners who love camping
Going camping? With an EV? We've got the perfect trailer for you. The only problem? It's still a prototype.
Honda has just announced the Honda Base Station Prototype, a solar-powered camping trailer that ticks all the boxes for electric vehicle owners.
Details about the Base Station are pretty scarce. The trailer, developed by engineers and designers at Honda's U.S. R&D centers in California and Ohio, is modular, smart, with an "open, spacious, airy and bright interior." It can sleep a family of four with a foldable couch and an (optional) kids' bunk bed. And if you raise the roof, you get seven feet of stand-up space.
The modular part comes in the form of various accessories, such as an air conditioner, an external shower, or an external kitchen. It's all powered through a lithium battery, inverter, and integrated solar powers and, if need be, you can hook it up to an external generator.
Honda didn't release any actual figures behind all this, such as battery capacity, or any of the ways that make the trailer "smart."
Honda, of course, has it pictured together with its Honda 0 SUV, which is currently also in prototype stage. The two might actually launch together, even though Honda didn't share many details about a launch date for the Base Station (the Honda 0 SUV is scheduled to launch in 2026).
As for the price, Honda said it would make it "competitively priced in the lightweight travel trailer segment."
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