Anthony Kilner
Time to get serious – the Retreat gasless caravan takes to the red stuff
Our intrepid testers hauled the Retreat from Laverton along the Old Laverton Road to the Deep Well area, a favourite spot for some time-out. This road was rough and in very poor condition, which really tested the dirt road driveability…
Sunshine is gold!
There’s a lot of fun to be had by going off grid. Our crew started the week with 56 percent battery charge, and while there’s been some cloud, there’s been sun, sun, sun! After heading out from Laverton, and with…
The Longest Line 2019
The Australian Motorhoming Lions Club (AMLC) is organising to set two world records – the longest parade of camping vehicles (RVs) currently set at 672, and the longest connected image of an LED rope light. Just quietly, they are expecting…
Casey Council charging for storage
The City of Casey, one of the larger councils in Melbourne’s outer east, has been questioned over charging residents for storage caravans, trailers and even boats on their own property. The fees, according to the forms RV Daily obtained, stated…
Recharged, serviced and lit up!
After powering three vans in Coolgardie where the State of Charge (SoC) dropped to just 23.4 percent as per our last update, the gasless van was allowed some time to recharge in the glorious sun. In fact the van jumped…
Powering not one van but three!
Week four of the Retreat electric van testing and our intrepid explorers are in the Goldfields of WA, parked up ready to go prospecting. In what has proven to be some tough weather conditions with very little sun, heavy cloud…
Stinking hot and no sun!
After several days getting the Retreat serviced and prep’d for the big haul through to Kalgoorlie and parts further north, plus getting the Ford ready to go as well, the electric van hits the road for the next stage of…
Kokoda back on track
It was only a short time ago that Kokoda closed its gates to the caravan world. The good news for the brand is that it has been thrown a lifeline by new owner and French engineer, Antoine Le Pajolec. A…
Exposed electricals on show in WA
The gasless caravan completed the final leg to Perth relatively easily although rough roads and road works saw the sliding door fall off one hinge. This was repaired easily and everything else came through swimmingly in the wet conditions. Testers…
Retreat OzX blasts 3200km across the Nullarbor
Five days after leaving Melbourne the Retreat OzXcorp gasless caravan has reached Esperance, with another 700km travel required to get to Perth for the caravan show. The show at Rockingham starts this weekend, taking place over 5-7 April. The van…
Aussie innovators take 17,000km leap into the unknown to pioneer off-grid caravan power
Retreat Caravans and OzXcorp, Australian technology start-up, has combined caravan manufacture and technology not seen in the caravan industry previously, to create a fully electric caravan that has no complementary fossil-fuelled energy sources, but instead uses an industry-leading 16kW/h battery…
Jurgens Australia Gates Reopen and Operations Resume
Various media outlets and social media speculators had reported on the closure of Jurgens Caravans Australia. The facts are as follows. We experienced a lock out by the landlord over a commercial dispute. We are pleased to advise we have…
Jurgens Caravans appears to be trading – but for how long?
The gates of Jurgens Caravans have been open today despite being locked and emblazoned with official closure notice Monday (18thMarch), and the company is trading again or at least building caravans. This is despite an application for a ‘winding up’…
Oz X Driving Force
Oz X Corp is a new company on the market delivering some super amazing tech that is going global. RV Daily has been in contact with Andrew Huett, co-founder of Oz X Corp, who is over in the US, showing…
On the Ball Towing!
Peter Humphris is the brain child behind an exciting new product called the i-Tow system. This is a weight measuring system that connects to a 50mm tow ball and that shows the ball weight, so that owners can keep an eye…
