Travel

Wearing an ageless style the camper world has seen for many decades, the new Cortes Travel Trailer enjoys an update from the latest tech. Cortes builds it using a vacuum infusion of aluminized fiberglass and fills it with appliances from Furrion.

LEVC offers some of the UK's most classically stylish electrified commercial vehicles, and now it's turned its attention to the leisure market. The e-Camper plug-in hybrid camper van boasts 61 miles of electric driving coupled with gas-extended range.

The easiest, cheapest way to van life – or something similar, at least – is sleeping on a hatchback's folded seats. Backseat Bivy makes sure that's possible, even in smaller vehicles, with a quick-secure sleeping platform for hammock-like rest.

EyKuver has developed a new way of turning prescription eyeglasses into sunglasses. Its affordable, easily removable cling-on tinted film patches create temporary sunglasses to block harmful ultraviolet light.

Born from the need for self-sufficient travel, the 7even50 One trailer looks like little more than an industrial cargo trailer from the outside. Inside, though, it's a homey space for two that serves as a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and dining lounge.

The new Loef camper van debuts as a stretched-out MAN TGE that can deliver five-star meals on its slide-out ceramic grill, cocktail-crafting minibar and full indoor range. Dual dining areas allow up to 10 people to enjoy those meals inside the van.

Fretlight has been making guitars with LEDs embedded in the neck for a good long while now, but all of its instruments so far have been full size electrics or acoustics. Now it's going on the road with a travel version of its learning system.

The SAIC Maxus Life Home V90 Villa Edition is a Class C motorhome with Class A space thanks to dual slide-outs and a pop-up second story with its own elevator. Smart tech and sharp styling put the finishing touches on a townhome-grade RV.

In 2019, Polydrops reimagined the teardrop trailer as a sharp-angled mobile personal space. Now it's back with a more comfortable trailer specced out like a towable hotel room, complete with off-grid solar power system and all-weather HVAC.

2020 was the worst year for travel in decades, but if this selection of images from the 2020 Travel Photographer of the Year awards is any indication, it's been an extraordinary year for visual creativity. Enjoy this vicarious feast of a gallery.

Czech shop WoodVans warms up the motorbike-hauling camper, creating a Moto van so cozy and inviting it could double as a winter retreat for four people, at least when it's not busy serving as a dirt bike shuttle and base camp.

Bowlus adds a few pandemic-friendly updates to its luxury camping trailer. The new Terra Firma houses and feeds its human and canine occupants in luxury, protects from germs, and supports nomadic operations with two-week power and a smart tech suite.