How I built a vanlife setup powerful enough for work and play

A solar generator with wheels from EcoFlow sits on a gravel road in front of a large off-road tire connected to a lifted 4x4 van with a forest in the background.

You want your power system to be portable when this is home for only part of the year.

Last year I did the thing I’d been dreaming about for a decade: I bought a van. After twenty years of tech journalism, creating a mobile test platform for remote work was just as exciting as having an adventure vehicle to pursue my outdoor hobbies. For that I’d need lots of battery capacity to power it all.

Originally I wanted to buy an EV to use as a giant rolling power plant for all the gadgets I own and get to play with as a product reviewer. Unfortunately, the charging infrastructure isn’t quite ready in the far-flung destinations where I travel, and there isn’t a good plug-in hybrid in my preferred vehicle class. So, instead I opted fo …

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