1. What is overlanding travel?
Overlanding is a free, independent, off-the-grid lifestyle that relies on a vehicle with an unspecified destination, a long-term trip, and usually an off-road vehicle that can change the landscape of the location at any time.
2. What is camping?
Camping is purposeful, usually made in advance of the camping program, a fixed camping site provides the necessary water and electricity, a shorter period of time is a short relaxation to enjoy the way of nature.
3. The difference between land travel and camping
(1) time cycle, land travel time is unknown may be a few months may be a few years, the plan is often more ambitious for: a national travel or global travel, land travel when the car is home, need to solve all the problems in the car. Camping is generally less than a week, during the holidays in the outdoors away from the hustle and bustle of the family.
(2) Diversity of locations, camping is a place that is worked out in advance, a place you like better, the environment tends to be more comfortable and can not be changed. Overland travel environment is as diverse as you want you can be in the rainforest, desert, snowfields, etc., often in off-the-beaten-path places.
(3) Life preparation, camping is in advance according to the preparation of camping time to bring the necessary food, you do not have to worry about the safety and life problems, although the campground is often more remote, but there will be people to ensure that the campground is equipped with qualified call and self-help methods. Land travel preparation includes only the most basic living equipment, for food needs to be stored from time to time, generally equipped with a refrigerator in the car to ensure that food for a long time, you must ensure that you can always deal with a variety of emergencies in preparation.
(4) Vehicle, for land travel is the most important thing is the vehicle, the vehicle has all their survival necessities, at the same time, the vehicle is to ensure that the most important tool to ensure the comfort of travel, for the camping vehicle is not important, they may not have prepared the vehicle.
(5) Cost, the cost of overland travel is much higher than camping, overland travel is strictly equipped with vehicles, electrical problems and distress equipment, electrical appliances and clothes for different seasons, etc., while for camping there are only simple tents and grills, and the cost of food, etc. is much lower.
4. Photovoltaic Power Generation for Overland Traveling
The most difficult problem when traveling overland besides the vehicle itself is electricity, no matter how electricity is necessary for life, traditional generators need to prepare diesel fuel, the sound is huge and can only generate electricity when resting, but with the development of the photovoltaic industry a new type of overland travel has changed, most of the trips are equipped with solar panels in the car, he perfectly solves the problems of the traditional generator to give the best travel experience, and you don’t need to worry about the power generation situation for the travel of solar panels. You don’t need to worry about power generation. Solar panels are perfectly adequate for traveling.
5. Can I afford the cost of solar panels?
If you ask this question then you must not know much about solar panels, the price of solar panels is too low for the cost of your land travel, for example, the price of solar panels is $0.1/watt, and the installation of 600 watt solar panels is only $60, in addition, you also need to prepare batteries to store electricity, lithium batteries are priced at $130/kwh, and the price of the general 3kwh battery pack is about $400, which means that you need to prepare the batteries to store electricity, and the price of lithium batteries is about $130/kwh. Lithium batteries cost $130/kwh, a typical 3kwh battery pack is around $400, and other solar inverters, blockers, etc. cost around $500, which is a good deal when you compare the power savings to the ease of generating power in a vehicle.
In conclusion, while land travel is more challenging than camping, and camping does not allow for the ever-changing beauty of land travel, photovoltaic power system also provides a good power experience for land travelers.
