2024 Big Battery Poll Results
Here's the results of the Big Battery Poll by Truck Camper Magazine
Everyone,
This is a really great poll by Truck Camper Magazine on the type and size of batteries being installed in truck campers. While this wasn’t specifically about towable RVs and Motorhomes, these same trends will most likely apply to whatever you’re camping with.
Next week I’ll post a synopsis of what this might mean for your own RV battery selection. In the meantime, read the full Truck Camper article and post any questions for me in the comments below.
- Mike Sokol
Read the full article HERE…
614 truck campers answered our Big Battery Poll and—oh my—there are some big surprises and critical findings for our industry. Positive to negative, let’s short this out.
Way back in 2015, batteries were simple. You installed Group 24, Group 27, Group 31, or 6 Volt GC batteries and called it a day. Put two of any of the above in a camper and you had enough to power an entire 12 volt system with aplomb. Add LED lighting and a solar panel or two and you were Captain Nemo, sailing the off-grid seas with autonomy, and battling giant squid with your left hand.
We know this from our first battery poll nine years ago, but I suspect the poll results would have been similar nine years before that. For decades, truck camper batteries were Group 24, Group 27, Group 31, or 6 Volt GC; boring and reliable for about five or six years. Then you got new batteries; rinse and repeat.
Today, batteries are no longer just the aforementioned fab four. Lithium batteries for campers had barely broken the surface in 2015. Since then they have transformed the marketplace, and proliferated into a myriad of shapes, sizes, and products. Some lithium batteries are the size of a traditional Group series, while others are almost unrecognizable as a battery. Like everything else with technology, the old-school rulebook has been tossed and batteries are changing fast.
So how do we get a grip on where truck camper battery preferences are in 2024? And how do we find out where those preferences are going? You create a Big Battery Poll and ask Truck Camper Magazine readers.
Buckle up battery buffs. These results are fascinating.
Let’s play safe out there… Mike
Hi interested in how to use and charge lithium in freezing weather. Have several rv s that are due for new batteries. Also have a mountain top ham repeater that I support and an off grid cabin. I have been using 6 v gc in all applications but lithium of interest. But everything I support goes to well below freezing n mountains of Colorado..how to use lithium?
Hi interested in how to use and charge lithium in freezing weather. Have several rv s that are due for new batteries. Also have a mountain top ham repeater that I support and an off grid cabin. I have been using 6 v gc in all applications but lithium of interest. But everything I support goes to well below freezing n mountains of Colorado..how to use lithium?