Winter is 5 months away (it starts snowing in the Sierras in November). My AP buddies are getting ready for the cold months ahead.
First hack is Sock Tires. These traction devices are allowed in place of chains or cables when chains are required in CA & NV. These socks are a lot lighter & compact than chains and much easier to install when it’s snowing out there.
https://autosock.us/snow-socks-guide/
Second hack is a small one person tent or bivy used indoors, e.g. inside the vehicle.
People don’t understand an indoor tent raises the sleeping temperature vs the ambient temperature. It all start in South Korea in 2013 when they had record cold temperatures and they needed a way to save money to stay warm at night when sleeping, watching TV, etc.
So the hack is to sleep inside a bivy or tent that traps the body heat and keeps you warmer when sleeping in your vehicle.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/c...ide-the-tent-6
It was 65 degrees F outside the tent but 79 degrees F inside the tent or a pick up of 14 degrees F. Some of my buddies get very creative with a stealth cover and insulation like a reflective blanket. So if it’s 35 degrees F outside, it’s 50 degrees F inside the tent/bivy. No heater, no electric blankets, no engine running, etc.
Or, as I tell my buddies, just get a BEV like a Tesla model Y and sleep in camper mode where the car keeps the heater on without running the engine since “big batteries rock”. The problem with a hybrid is the battery is too small so the engine has to fire up and run for a bit to recharge the batteries.
There’s this back street outside the Atlantis and there is so many campers, RV’s on this street in the winter time. In contrast the stealth campers are in Atlantis parking lot or in the garage at Peppermill.