AC Future’s managed, self-sustaining home transforms to be bigger than your first apartment
The ‘AC’ in AC Future stands for Amy and Cindy, the two daughters of founder Arthur Keane. This is just one of the information I received in the company CES event where we got a first look at the new AC Future Ai-TH convertible home. That’s it more another a well-chosen response to the housing crisis we saw at the 2025 expo. Available in three models: delivery capsule (Sun-Thurs), towed trailer (Ai-THt) and Road Ready EV RV (Ai-THd). Press and prospective buyers got to tour the EV prototype this week (but we had to take off our shoes first).
Thanks to pull-out sections in the back and on both sides, the bus-sized RV transforms into a 400-square-foot, one-bed, one-bath apartment complete with living room, kitchen with full-size refrigerator, two-burner induction stove and microwave, along with a walk-in shower and washer/dryer in the bathroom. A full HVAC system combined with high-efficiency insulation keeps the unit temperate.
All this equates to a large energy consumption, which AC Future responds to with a roof covered with solar panels. I was told that all three Ai-TH models can generate about 25 kWh of energy per day. For reference, the average American house uses about 30 kWh per day. The home can also be plugged in if sunlight isn’t enough, and there’s talk of wind generation options for customers in cloudy climates.
All Ai-TH models will also be equipped with atmospheric water generation that can suck up between 13 and 15 gallons of water per day out of thin air. That’s far less than the 200 or so gallons that American houses use for non-landscape needs, so the Ai-TH also recycles gray water and, of course, has a tank. In theory, these units could act as completely self-sustaining living capsules, gathering what is needed from the world around them.
Because it’s CES 2025, where the unofficial model is “Stick some AI in it!” has its own whole-home AI assistant called Futura to turn on your lights, manage your resources, and handle other management tasks . There was even a demo set up outside the RV allowing people to “meet” “her”.
At last year’s CES, AC Future, just two years old at the time, showed off the Ai-TH idea. The fully equipped prototype we saw was created in collaboration with Hydra, an automotive design and prototyping studio from Southern California. The models that go into production will have components coming from a huge range of suppliers; I’m told there are three partners lined up just for the electric motors.
AC Future says this is “aimed at addressing the global affordable, sustainable and mobile housing crisis”. And any talk of dealing with the housing crisis must include some discussion of prices, unless we’re relying on some economy-style solutions. The static base model will start at $98,000, the trailerable model will cost $138,000 and up, and the drive version starts at $298,000.
AC Future’s COO told me that production will start as soon as they leave Vegas (the whole team was at CES) and reservations are open now.
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