Right off the bat, I want to add I'm talking about not work related living in a converted semi truck w/ trailer, not working and living at the same time. (However, trailers could be swapped to have a haul and a living trailer).
I'm drawing up a floor plan, with a garage bay for a small car/motorcycle, a 10-15 kW solar array (my friend challenged me to design it to house a Tesla, though I cannot afford one and will only probably use 5K), a full bathroom, kitchen, living room, and bedroom, total square footage outside of garage, not including wall paneling: 389.8125 sqft.
While my ideas may seem insane, I have a strong engineering background and am not afraid to have 2.25 tonnes of water hanging over a carport on a trailer that was not designed for the purpose, with the proper reinforcement and weight balance as needed.
Obviously my goal in vandwelling is not minimalism for its own sake, but just leading a more efficient (and frankly fun as hell to build and drive) way of living. I dream of onboard water recycling, and other cool experiments.
Due to the clouding of google by people working and sleeping in their truck cabs, I have no idea if this has been done before. Thankfully, this is not my first custom conversion, but I would love to see what others have done, for inspiration and advice in my own planning. If anyone's interested I'll release a full floor plan and budget. (I expect the cost to be $20K for inside + ~30K for truck and trailer).
I'm drawing up a floor plan, with a garage bay for a small car/motorcycle, a 10-15 kW solar array (my friend challenged me to design it to house a Tesla, though I cannot afford one and will only probably use 5K), a full bathroom, kitchen, living room, and bedroom, total square footage outside of garage, not including wall paneling: 389.8125 sqft.
While my ideas may seem insane, I have a strong engineering background and am not afraid to have 2.25 tonnes of water hanging over a carport on a trailer that was not designed for the purpose, with the proper reinforcement and weight balance as needed.
Obviously my goal in vandwelling is not minimalism for its own sake, but just leading a more efficient (and frankly fun as hell to build and drive) way of living. I dream of onboard water recycling, and other cool experiments.
Due to the clouding of google by people working and sleeping in their truck cabs, I have no idea if this has been done before. Thankfully, this is not my first custom conversion, but I would love to see what others have done, for inspiration and advice in my own planning. If anyone's interested I'll release a full floor plan and budget. (I expect the cost to be $20K for inside + ~30K for truck and trailer).