The $30B Market Nobody Thinks About: Greening the RV | Ben Parker, Cofounder of Lightship

Ex-Tesla engineers raise $60M for solar and battery-powered RVs, creating tomorrow's camping today and relevant for 1 in 10 Americans.

🎧 Episode Summary

Ben Parker is the Co-Founder of Lightship, an electric RV company that’s reimagining how we hit the road sustainably.

Lightship builds aerodynamic, all-electric travel trailers with onboard solar and battery systems that can provide 5-7 days of clean power.

Before founding Lightship in 2020, Ben was an EV engineer at Tesla. He and his co-founder Toby Kraus (also ex-Tesla) have raised over $60 million from investors like our friends at Prelude Ventures, Congruent Ventures, and Obvious Ventures.

In short: Parker and 120 + team members are building the Airstream of the net-zero era: sleek, solar-powered, and silent.

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