Check out these highlights of RV-related news, events and video from this past fortnight.
1. Winnebago Via Showcased at Washington, DC, Event: Winnebago Industries, Inc., the nation’s top-selling motor home manufacturer, recently showcased the all-new high-mileage Class A Winnebago Via motorhome for participants in the Forum on Stimulating Economic Vitality and Resource Conservation, a gathering of top national and state tourism and park leaders hosted by the U.S. Department of Interior. The event was held in downtown Washington, D.C., on September 15, and allowed key RV industry leaders, state tourism officials, the managers of public lands and others to discuss increasing visits by Americans to national parks while making this use sustainable.
2. RV Showers – Yours or the campground’s?: What do you use your shower for? Showering? Or is it a storage area or a place for the kitty litter box or laundry basket? RV.net blogger Jaimie Hall Bruzenak discusses the many uses of the RV shower, and whether or not using a campground shower is better than the one in your own home on wheels.
3. Engineering Professors Develop New Hybrid Vehicle Concept for RV Travelers: Dr. Steve Shepard Jr., University of Alabama associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his father, Dr. Steve Shepard Sr., a former faculty member and researcher at Mississippi State University, developed the idea for a hybrid dinghy pusher after the cost of fuel curtailed both families’ RV traveling plans. The electric-hybrid passenger vehicle has the ability to improve fuel economy and increase the acceleration of the motorhome towing it.