Tiny Trailer (With Bed) Trails Behind Mobility Scooters

The QTvan, from the Environmental Transport Association in the UK, is a trailer (or caravan in British English) that is hitched behind a mobility scooter -- the kind of scooter used by old folks to speed around and terrorize youngsters. It is billed as "the world’s smallest and greenest caravan". It is also likely to be nothing more than a marketing stunt, but I love it anyway.

The Environmental Transport Association, aka the ETA, is in fact a seller of vehicle insurance. Here's the marketing blurb, disguised as a quote from an independent expert:

Spokesman for the ETA, Yannick Read, said: "An increasing number of people rely on mobility scooters, but if you develop a fault or run out of battery power and don’t have breakdown cover – or a tiny caravan in tow – your only options are to push something that weighs the equivalent of two men all the way home or call on a relative with a large car."

Still, the idea is great, and there is at least one of them in existence. The QTvan measures just 2m x 75cm (6.56 x 2.46 feet), and is therefore big enough to hold a full-sized bed. The supposedly £5,500 ($9,090) trailer also packs a 16-inch TV, a radio, a kettle (for making tea, of course) and a drinks cabinet. It actually looks pretty cosy inside there.

The maximum speed is 5mph, and it can be run from battery power or 240v mains electricity. There's even a TV antenna on the roof.

I'd be wary of actually sleeping in this, though. The marauding teenagers that drunkenly stalk the nighttime streets of Britain are a terrifying bunch, and if those hooligans came across this little electrical snail then I'm sure they'd tip it over as quickly as they'd tip a sleeping cow.

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