What the Evotrex PG5 Actually Is The Evotrex PG5 gets grouped with the electric trailers, and it does not belong there. Evotrex says as much in its own specifications. The PG5 is a plug-in hybrid. Every version carries a 43-kilowatt-hour battery and a 75-kilowatt gasoline generator with its own fuel tank. The fully loaded PG5
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The most interesting engineering in the category Most travel trailers are boxes. They push a wall of air down the highway and your fuel economy or your battery range pays for it. Lightship built the AE.1 around the opposite premise, which is that if you solve aerodynamics first, everything else gets easier. The trailer travels
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The Pebble Flow – one of the few that talk about the tongue weight The Pebble Flow tells you straight up the tongue weight on this bad boy. That is what you need to know first. Yet, every electric travel trailer on the market right now leads with the same pitch. It generates its own
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We took our first Disney cruise as a family and I went in expecting to feel ripped off. I did not. As a family, we loved it. So, for our next spring break, we thought we would try a different Disney Cruise, a different route and a different ship. So, I started paying attention to
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Two electric SUVs landed within months of each other at nearly the same price, and they are asking you to do completely different things. The Rivian R2 Performance Launch Edition starts at $57,990. The Tesla Model Y L Launch Series starts at $61,990. Add the two options I would choose on the Rivian—Midnight paint and
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This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most packing lists are theoretical. Someone imagines a trip, lists forty things you might need, and collects a commission on all of them. This isn’t that. Our family of four spent two weeks
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This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. In Japan, your phone is not a convenience. It’s your map, your train ticket, your translator, and your camera — often all four inside the same ten minutes. Our family of four spent
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This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. And to be clear up front: nothing here is financial advice — I’m just telling you what a dollar bought my family in Japan this summer. The Japanese yen is trading at about
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I’ve noticed something in how people find this blog: a lot of you are searching some version of “is Pinter legit?” or “what is a Pinter?” before you’re willing to hand over a credit card number. I get it. A company offers you a free beer-brewing machine if you just buy the beer, the ads
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Our family of four averaged seven to eight miles of walking a day in Japan. I know because my phone kept telling me, usually around the time one of our kids started negotiating for a taxi. Here’s how we actually got around — trains, cabs, Ubers, and a whole lot of sidewalk — and the
