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I'm planning a future where I retire in a pure electric mobile home. Charge in the sun and use syngas for cooking and boosted heating in the winter. Heat pump keeps the interior cool or warm.

I have no desire to maintain and pay for a static property which just rots in place and requires constant maintenance and upkeep.

A smaller mobile home I can easily just tinker around in and keep it tidy and running.

I have a permanent wanderlust and desire to explore.

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With EVs, you may not even need any hydrocarbon for cooking and heating.

I've seen some existing ICE van conversions that run induction cooking purely off of solar and about $1k of lithium batteries in warmer climates.

Some also have fancy floor heating that run off of auxiliary batteries, so it should be a piece of cake for EVs.

With proper insulation, I imaging you can go pretty far on solar alone between plugging-ins. Just gotta reserve enough for the trips to town.

I like the other guys answer, but also always wondered wether something like this could be integrated (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebiogas/the-new-home...) maybe the heavy part under the floor...and the gaseous in the walls?) any way I also wanted to suggest you look into led lighting for micro greens and solar cookers) You of course know diesel engines can be run on filtered cooking oil, personally I enjoy freeriding no gear (or for smaller roads) motor going downhill, it's incredible how far inertia will take you..:-) I always dreamed of a gps which would take such driving style into account and calculate optimal moment to disengage the gear...(as I came to Ankara, I had a wow 10km freeride) On the same note in a green future it would be fun to see tinkerers integrate a "Twike" style assist for driver and passengers

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