Originally Posted by
350htrr
That would of course work quite well, technically... In real life there's the noise, the smell, the weight, the cost... I would rather go with a solar panel as the cover for the trailer. It of course has some problems too (rainy, cloudy, cost) but generally would work just fine.
Those are the reasons why I've only mused about it, plus I've yet to do any bike tours and bike camping which is the main use case I imagined. I'm more attracted to the solar panel idea myself. But still ... I think cost would be considerably less, and the specific energy of gasoline is hard to beat. And having said "A", having a trailer with a generator or solar charging on it, maybe you could put the batteries in there also and even the motor. Disconnect at the base camp, and the bike is just a bike again. Just ideas that strike me sometimes.