So Cool: Everyday Astronaut’s New Broadcast Truck

[Cosmacelf]

Cool video from Tim Dodd:

They bought a used NBC News broadcast truck, complete with 70 foot mast, and turned it into a mobile streaming van.

The tech is seriously high end. Interesting to see what goes into a high end streaming production these days. Also I am tickled to see that a very niche streamer can afford so much gear and such high quality production equipment.

Lastly, since this is an EV forum, I weep to see how impressed Tim was with his dual EcoFlow batteries which give him a whopping total 7.2kWh of energy. That’s not a typo. Any EV has like 10x that much energy. We so need EV vans and trucks. Come on Tesla or anyone, get going and produce a cheap commercial EV cargo van with real offtake power.

 

[Watts_Up]

Come on Tesla or anyone, get going and produce a cheap commercial EV cargo van with real offtake power.

In fact Mr. "Take that Elon Musk" will make the Ford e-Transit available in the US in 2023.

 

[Cosmacelf]

In fact Mr. "Take that Elon Musk" will make the Ford e-Transit available in the US in 2023.

Not quite the right specs. The medium height van gets only 116 miles EPA. Offtake power is 2.4 kW. Tim Dodd's setup has 7.2 kW output.

 

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Lastly, since this is an EV forum, I weep to see how impressed Tim was with his dual EcoFlow batteries which give him a whopping total 7.2kWh of energy.

Ecoflow ∆ Pro batteries are one of the most cost effective products on the market for the specific purpose of low-effort AC power; as that was the intent of these batteries he's right to be stoked. There are other solutions that provide better capacity/$, but they're not the literal plug-and-play of the ecoflows. Ecoflow also has a big differentiator over the other batteries out there (goal zero, jackery, etc.) in that one can bridge two delta pros into a proper 240V...though It doesn't look like Tim has two deltapros--looks like one ∆ pro and an expansion battery.

FTR, I have two delta pros bridged to 240V that I can plug into my generator input and run my whole house with barely a concern on load. Solid.