Outpost Campers revealed its new and improved Outpost 6.5 truck camper at the 2025 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally. According to Outpost Campers owner and CEO, Taylor Ripp, the response to the relaunch was great, validating that the fledgling truck camper manufacturer is on the right track. No, the diminutive camper doesn’t have a large bathroom, multiple slide-outs, or a reclining sofa, but what it does offer is a minimalist approach to camping and overlanding. Inside, this cutting-edge camper you’ll find an open floorplan with loads of seating, a kitchen countertop longer than what you’ll find in many campers today, and a 48 volt Ecoflow electrical system with a massive lithium battery.
More importantly, the Outpost 6.5 weighs less than 1,500 pounds, making it light and nimble enough to be hauled on a half-ton pickup.
The heart of the Outpost 6.5 is the aforementioned Ecoflow electrical system. Unlike the 12 volt systems found in most truck campers today, the Outpost 6.5’s electrical system runs on 48 volts. With this output voltage that if four times higher than standard, the EcoFlow can deliver more power for the same current, enabling the camper to power more efficiently with its massive 5 kilowatt hour lithium battery. The entire EcoFlow electrical system is controlled with a state-of-the-art touchscreen console with Wifi/Bluetooth capability for monitoring the electrical system from a smartphone.
With a diesel-fired furnace, the composite truck camper is also propane free, marking a major shift in the industry in how camper’s are heated and powered. Ten years ago recreational vehicles were heated with propane and were powered by archaic 12 volt lead-acid batteries with a 50 percent usable capacity. My, how times have changed.
So what’s new and improved about the 2025 Outpost 6.5 compared to last year’s debut model?
“The biggest change that you will notice immediately is that we completely redesigned the camper shell body,” Ripp explained. “We switched from Total Composites to a domestic supplier for our composite panels and we redesigned the shape of the camper. A lot of the camper’s dimensions are the same, but we redesigned the nose to have some curvature to it and to have a larger, more spacious cabover. It’s still an east-west orientation, but there’s a lot of extra room with that extra bump out in the nose. It also helps with the aerodynamics because it’s got some curvature up there. It also has a black aluminum extrusion, exoskeleton, is what we’re calling it, which gives it a more rugged look. It gives us a lot of different mounting points for adding accessories.”
While this change to a domestic supplier for the camper shell is significant, the Outpost 6.5 still feels the same with its no-wood, composite structure. It’s still a thermal, transfer-free camper yet the difference this time is that the exterior features an aluminum exoskeleton for extra strength that also offers more shape. The 2025 Outpost 6.5 also features a flat acrylic windows rather than a “bubble” style windows. According to Ripp, the 2025 version is using the same powder-coated aluminum cabinetry and the same door.
“One thing we’re really trying to get away from as a company—and this also partially motivated the move away from Total Composites—is we really want to be our own truck camper brand. We’re Outpost Campers. We make truck campers. We’re not piggybacking on another system. This is our camper. This is our design. We’re excited to work with a domestic supplier, to work with a company in the United States. They’re a great company to work with, but also it allows us to do a lot quicker R&D because we can design a new camper body, and we can get the materials for that so much faster, and quicker,” Ripp said.
While the changes to the Outpost 6.5’s outside are fairly significant, perhaps the biggest change can be found inside. The company has more than doubled the standard Ecoflow lithium battery capacity from 2 kilowatt hours to 5 kilowatt hours. Last year the company offered an optional upgrade to a 4 kilowatt hour battery, but now the company is offering 5 kilowatt hours STANDARD, an increase of 150 percent. In familiar 12 volt terms, that’s a 415 amp hour lithium battery. That’s huge for a camper of this size.
In all, these 2025 changes have shaved 80 or 90 pounds off the base model camper. According to Ripp, the base model comes in at 1,475 pounds, and that’s with the larger lithium battery. One reason for the camper’s incredibly low weight is that the structure of the camper features zero wood which is heavier.
“We’ve eliminated all of the wood in the structure of the camper,” Ripp said. “There was some wood and some other reinforcement in certain places in the camper body before, but the new composites use a different type of foam core, It’s called PET foam made from recycled plastic. It’s really strong. The walkable roof is made of this foam and fiberglass. There’s literally zero wood in the construction of the camper body or anything that can rot. And we even use a composite sub floor with the integrated storage. So no wood in there either. The only wood in our camper is the bamboo plywood that’s the countertop and the bench components in the lagoon table. This camper should last generations because there’s literally nothing that can rot it out.”
The base model of the Outpost 6.5 lists for only $39,995.
The heart and soul of the Outpost 6.5 is the 48 volt Ecoflow Independence System which is paired with the internally heated 5 kilowatt hour lithium battery. The key component of the Ecoflow System is the power hub, which combines a 3,600 watt inverter, the shore power charger, two 250 watt solar power inputs, as well as a 60 amp DC-DC charger wired to an Anderson connector to connect to the truck. The system sounds complex, but Ripp says that it really isn’t.
“The EcoFlow is a very user friendly system with lots of support,” he asserts. “Ecoflow is constantly issuing firmware updates. They’re able to add features and resolve bugs and stuff through those firmware updates, which has been pretty cool. We saw this year, they introduced a feature via firmware update to I’ll get a jump your starter battery from the ecosystem. It’s mainly been just user education. These 48 volt systems are new and people are used to more traditional campers with just a 12 volts battery and everything around propane. They’re not used to monitoring their power consumption, even though it’s a large battery bank. It’s just, you’re going to have to monitor it, to make sure you don’t just run yourself out of power.”
Ripp tells us that the company will soon be breaking ground on a new, 2-acre factory in Bayfield, Colorado. The larger facility, he says, will shorten lead times and add capacity and space for new projects.
So are there any plans to come out with a bigger, larger Outpost 8 camper in the near future?
“It’s in the plans,” he said. “I don’t have an exact time frame on that yet. We’ve been just so overwhelmed with orders. We’re trying to make sure that we’re delivering for all these customers who are waiting on their camper, and that’s our first priority. Getting into our new facility is going to be a huge piece of that because we’re so tapped out on space right now. We don’t really have the room to start building prototypes. Because before we do it, we’re going to build prototypes, we’re going to test, and we’re going to make sure we’re putting something out there that we can stand by. That’s really important to us. But it’s in the works. We get asked for it daily, every day. We know that there’s people that want it. I think we can do something pretty cool with an 8-foot model that would be different from everything else that’s out there.”
Of course, Outposts’ amazing success has made expansion possible. The industry trend is going smaller and lighter and Ripp capitalized on this trend by offering a truck camper light enough to be hauled on half-ton pickups, trucks with lower payload ratings. Part of the company’s success, of course, is that Ripp packed his camper with enough lithium to power a small town. We’re kidding, of course, but the truth is that the Outpost 6.5 outshines the power found in larger truck campers. This extra power is needed because the Outpost 6.5 is outfitted with a DC air conditioner, an induction cooktop, and a DC compressor refrigerator. All of the 110 volt household outlets are tied into the camper’s inverter to power laptops, coffee makers, and other appliances.
“We’ve been pleasantly surprised by our success. We knew that our camper was going to be a hit, but it’s exceeded even our expectations. Since we launched last July, I think we’re close to 125 reservations on the camper. And that’s just since last July, we’ve got about 80 or 90 orders in the queue right now. We definitely took a risk in developing this camper and putting it out to market, not exactly knowing what was going to happen. Now that it’s working and we’ve really started to refine some of our production processes. We’re building about two campers a week right now. We’re way ahead of where we thought we would be getting to that point in just in our little facility now. Hopefully, by building a new shop we can produce even more campers. We’ll be breaking ground on the new shop here in a month or so. It’s going to really allow us to take the next step,” he said.
Interested in learning more about Outpost Campers or in getting a quote? Contact the company directly via email at info@outpost-campers.com.
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