- Carapate created an eponymous $16,522 travel trailer that can sleep two adults and a child.
- The teardrop trailer-inspired Carapate is produced in an eco-friendly manner and built primarily out of marine plywood.
- Its maker offers a series of optional upgrades — what it calls “backpacks” — that allows the trailer to be semi-customizable.
- All of the backpacks total around $20,238 on top of the original price of the trailer.
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Carapate creates eponymous semi-customizable environmentally friendly $16,522 travel trailers that can sleep two adults and one child.
The Carapate trailer look was first inspired by teardrop trailers, which was first popularized in the United States, according to Carapate.
Its makers then combined the teardrop concept with the company’s goal of being environmentally friendly by using marine plywood — which has insulating qualities and is both recyclable and renewable, according to the company — as the main building material for the body of the trailer.
This mission of being eco-friendly is also applied to the amenities and furnishings of the trailer: Carapate has a list of optional add-ons, which it calls backpacks, which include Earth-friendly upgrades such as LED lights and 105-watt solar panels to power the trailer.
These backpack add-ons also further capitalize on the modular arrangement of the trailer, making it semi-customizable and tailorable for whatever the customer wants.
Carapate is currently available for purchase in France and several other European countries, but its maker plans to expand sales to other continents in the coming months.
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