Thanks so much for the great tour Roman and Ioana (and for going above and beyond to shoot it in the pouring rain!). It was so nice to meet you and to chat electric vanlife.
There are various bots which will post garbage to any channel advertising electric vehicles. It would be very bad for countries like Iran, Russian, and Saudi Arabia, were there to be a mass adoption of electric vehicles.
The future has arrived! -Clean: there really is no better way to cook than induction! Wiping whilst cooking is like magic, accurate temperatures and small space form factor is so chic. -Safety: must feel so much safer than dangerous engine vehicles that have orders of magnitude more accidents and fires. -Solar charge anywhere in the world: unclear why the solar cannot power the battery pack? I guess you have to plug into any random power point for a slow charge if away from the official chargers. -Speed accuracy and easier driving: curious if the e-van has the unbeatable digital (micro control, millionths of a second) speed control on cruise, which engines cannot.
@@timogronroos4642it would indeed take a long time to charge that way, and to set it up we’d lose warranty on our traction batteries. Once we don’t have warranty anymore we’re planning to do it! But for now, the charging infrastructure across Europe has been more than sufficient to get us to 17 countries and counting 😊
I am a EV owner and all for this but; the safety is not true when it comes to accidents (ask the insurance compagnies if in doubt), the fire are fewer but more severe to extinguish.
Induction cooking has one major drawback. A very strong electromagnetic field is generated which is not safe, IMHO, for human organisms. So, you are very brave risking health issues from exposure at such close quarters.
Yeah, you can fit 1200 watts on a Ford E-Transit extended high roof. With a dual sliding awning you can fit another 2400 watts. That's 3.6 kW of solar. You could simply boondock and recharge the battery over a few days with solar.
The Ford E-Transit is a great base for a camper van. I do wish the battery were twice as big, however. The Ford E-Transit has an 89 kWh battery, while the Chevy Silverado EV has a 200 kWh battery. I figure you could fit 3600 watts of solar panels on the roof, along with a dual sliding awning design. 1200 on the roof. 1200 that slides out to one side, and 1200 that slides out on the other side. I just gotta design and build the roof rack.
We have a small env200. We used to have a large diesel ducato which we have sold on to others to enjoy. Have you thought about sunsynk inverter to directly charge the 400v pack using either solar or wind/hydro/Genny?
Sleeping on 79kWh of power is a tricky thing... IF the battery decides to go, it goes FAST, with very poisonous fumes and virtually unstoppable. It's very unlikely, but very lethal if it happens. ALL exits should be accessible at any time FAST.
Great camper, but the battery is weak so far, maybe soon EVs will become more interesting to car owners than diesels. In Holland, you're not supposed to sleep in the car.
And it doesn't include any tax! For example in Germany, only 25% of the cost of fuel is the raw cost, the rest is tax. That's about 15€ per 100 km in tax, at €2.00/ litre 10 litre/ 100 km. This EV would cost 45€/ 100 km including tax.
@@rafalw.3455 yes that's available. Those just do 300W max on most. I placed a Bluetti solar charger 2kWh and 2500Watt in my Van. Works a treat 👌 cooking induction as well.
Invest in a better mic. The electric future of selfsustaining cars its a nice dream. But the need a new battery technology and the solar needs to charge more. We have an electric car and its a good one, i still feel the difference in how loon you can drive. With our car driving on vacation u need to count inn the extra days in charging just to go somewhere. I perfere a gas car where it ha e all electrick for everything else.
@liondecka oh your a climate guy haha, yea join the hype train. I can tell u, I live in Norway. We have over 90% electric cars and busses/trains. Producing clean energy from water, waves,solar and winds, we recycle all, metal,glass,plastic,food waste and paper, even clothes and medisine is recycle here. We are 5mill people and we have one of the countries in the world that is the greenest in these areas. When I lok out in the world based on the nr of people pr country I don't see that entusiasme. Before you sitting there as a keyboard warrior writing negative comments pretending to be the green police look at what u contribute with. I drive electric, I have a energy sufficient house and I think my footprint is quite minimal. But when I talk about big campers aren't there yet and the technology isn't good enough for it just to run on lithium batteries its because it ain't. It takes far to long to charge, it's much wasted energy in warmth loss in the batteries themselves. And when cargo gett heavier than 3500kg than it needs juice to go places. U gett that Greta ?
A nice 20 year old camper still retains a good value and would be as usable as it was new if looked after. What value will this have in 20 years with tech advancements and needing a new battery by then?
@@sharonbraselton3135 siódmy rok busa tankuje tylko raz. Gdybym miał ev to z prądu z paneli na dachu robiłbym co najmniej kilkanaście tysięcy kilometrów rocznie.
Obviously it is the future! Just as EV on passenger cars. I build my EV campervan too. Works perfectly. With the new 2024 EV vans you can get pretty high specs already.
100% electric vanlife is the dream but the tech isn't quite there yet to be practical for full time living, maybe when solar gets from 20 to 30ish percent efficiency with some savvy unfolding panels...
The tech is there, it just can't be produced affordably outside of China. And greedy countries do not want to allow China to move up the value-added chain.
Ik vind het voor mijzelf maar een rommelbank. Wij kopen pas een E camper als ze 1000km aankunnen en/meteen alles electrisch binnenin zonder panelen en electrische rommel dat allemaal ooit stuk gaat. Maar ok het is een goed begin
Good idea but for touring not practical charging points in the UK are not good, I think I will what for Hydrogen which can be supplied at any fuel station
You need to create a totally different attitude towards traveling. You must not be in a hurry but enjoy the travel. It's not the destination, but the travel.
We’re currently travelling through the UK and the charging infrastructure is excellent so far! A bit more expensive than on mainland Europe perhaps, but really good 😊
We’ve been to 17 countries and have never run out of battery once! And if we would, we could charge up using our solar panels. It would take a while for sure, but would be enough to get us to the nearest charging station 😊
Battery life is poor, extremely expensive to replace, cold weather will also effect performance considerably and electric is worse for the environment. Good luck but not for me.
@Simon-dm8zv let's see in a few years. Electric is a massive con and us more about controlling people rather than environmental. Obviously the mining for the batteries is much worse for the environment but we will all pretend it isn't.
@@joshwheeler3216 It is clear you are simply not interested in reality. There is no need to ‘wait a few years’. All data is easy to find and has been for years.
Thanks so much for the great tour Roman and Ioana (and for going above and beyond to shoot it in the pouring rain!). It was so nice to meet you and to chat electric vanlife.
I bet the campsites love this pair when they turn up to camp!
Lots of negative comments so far from people who have never driven or owned an electric vehicle. All of those comments are wrong.
Thanks I lived out of my Tesla for a year, camp mode was next level.
many of this people are the reason of europe is far behind this future mobility technology. And asia is running far in front of all.
There are various bots which will post garbage to any channel advertising electric vehicles. It would be very bad for countries like Iran, Russian, and Saudi Arabia, were there to be a mass adoption of electric vehicles.
The future has arrived!
-Clean: there really is no better way to cook than induction! Wiping whilst cooking is like magic, accurate temperatures and small space form factor is so chic.
-Safety: must feel so much safer than dangerous engine vehicles that have orders of magnitude more accidents and fires.
-Solar charge anywhere in the world: unclear why the solar cannot power the battery pack? I guess you have to plug into any random power point for a slow charge if away from the official chargers.
-Speed accuracy and easier driving: curious if the e-van has the unbeatable digital (micro control, millionths of a second) speed control on cruise, which engines cannot.
It would take 10 days to fully charge this van with the panels they now have. So 250 km travel per week is possible with the current system.
@@timogronroos4642it would indeed take a long time to charge that way, and to set it up we’d lose warranty on our traction batteries. Once we don’t have warranty anymore we’re planning to do it! But for now, the charging infrastructure across Europe has been more than sufficient to get us to 17 countries and counting 😊
I am a EV owner and all for this but; the safety is not true when it comes to accidents (ask the insurance compagnies if in doubt), the fire are fewer but more severe to extinguish.
Induction cooking has one major drawback. A very strong electromagnetic field is generated which is not safe, IMHO, for human organisms. So, you are very brave risking health issues from exposure at such close quarters.
What a vantastic home. You people are great pioneers and have a wonderful attitude to life.
Thanks so much, that’s so kind!
If you build a slide-out solar panel system, they are not usually made with heavy framed panels, but semi-flexible panels, which are much lighter.
That's right
Yeah, you can fit 1200 watts on a Ford E-Transit extended high roof. With a dual sliding awning you can fit another 2400 watts. That's 3.6 kW of solar. You could simply boondock and recharge the battery over a few days with solar.
The Ford E-Transit is a great base for a camper van. I do wish the battery were twice as big, however. The Ford E-Transit has an 89 kWh battery, while the Chevy Silverado EV has a 200 kWh battery.
I figure you could fit 3600 watts of solar panels on the roof, along with a dual sliding awning design. 1200 on the roof. 1200 that slides out to one side, and 1200 that slides out on the other side. I just gotta design and build the roof rack.
'In winter when its a little bit colder its a little bit less' understatement of the century in my opinion 🤣🤣🤣
You have experience driving electric Fiat Ducatos in winter?
Well done sir. Great skills used and no doubt learned on this refit. Happy travels.
Theres no need to fast charge at all unless you are in a rush. You can hang out in a charging spot for hours while you can relax in the van, awesome
All the Dutch people I meet can talk English like a boss :)
We have a small env200. We used to have a large diesel ducato which we have sold on to others to enjoy. Have you thought about sunsynk inverter to directly charge the 400v pack using either solar or wind/hydro/Genny?
Hiw yiu like ev campuer
I prefer the aluminum light weight cabinets and removable containers
Sleeping on 79kWh of power is a tricky thing... IF the battery decides to go, it goes FAST, with very poisonous fumes and virtually unstoppable. It's very unlikely, but very lethal if it happens. ALL exits should be accessible at any time FAST.
Imagine gasoline, how many kWh aren't stored there.
Wring 15 too 64 kw per day atleadt icer or fukl day
@@Harrythehun 50 litre tank has 500 kWh.
"900 Ah" doesn't mean anything if you do not specify if the battery is a 12V, a 24V or a 48V.
Can you survive purely on Solar power in eRV, except in cloudy seasons?
can you drive in europe with the steering wheel on the right? I would like to take my self contained ford transict- electric to Europw
Now I want to take my van to Europe- can you do a video on USA to Europe during 2025-2029???LOL
23:57 dlaczego ładowanie samochodu z pv jest złe, a z elektrowni węglowych dobre?
*Uzasadnij logicznie proszę.
Great camper, but the battery is weak so far, maybe soon EVs will become more interesting to car owners than diesels. In Holland, you're not supposed to sleep in the car.
1€ per kWh is VERY expensive, as it equals 3km.
And it doesn't include any tax! For example in Germany, only 25% of the cost of fuel is the raw cost, the rest is tax. That's about 15€ per 100 km in tax, at €2.00/ litre 10 litre/ 100 km.
This EV would cost 45€/ 100 km including tax.
Why so much solar and such a big battery?
Why I didn't use the car battery to use for electricity, what's the point of having Solar and extra batteries if you already have car battery 😅
Cause those vans have no inverter to get power from the HV battery.
Ford and mercedes do offer this. 2,2kW AC via an inverter.
@@Electric_camper you cannot just connect inverter/powerbank (that has inverter build in it) to a lighter socket?
@@rafalw.3455 yes that's available. Those just do 300W max on most.
I placed a Bluetti solar charger 2kWh and 2500Watt in my Van. Works a treat 👌 cooking induction as well.
@@Electric_camper so there is no point of having Solaris if u wanna have stealth van :)
@@rafalw.3455 why would you need a Stealth van. A camper is a Camper.
Invest in a better mic. The electric future of selfsustaining cars its a nice dream. But the need a new battery technology and the solar needs to charge more. We have an electric car and its a good one, i still feel the difference in how loon you can drive. With our car driving on vacation u need to count inn the extra days in charging just to go somewhere. I perfere a gas car where it ha e all electrick for everything else.
Does the climate have the same opinion as you? I don't think so!
@liondecka oh your a climate guy haha, yea join the hype train. I can tell u, I live in Norway. We have over 90% electric cars and busses/trains. Producing clean energy from water, waves,solar and winds, we recycle all, metal,glass,plastic,food waste and paper, even clothes and medisine is recycle here. We are 5mill people and we have one of the countries in the world that is the greenest in these areas. When I lok out in the world based on the nr of people pr country I don't see that entusiasme. Before you sitting there as a keyboard warrior writing negative comments pretending to be the green police look at what u contribute with. I drive electric, I have a energy sufficient house and I think my footprint is quite minimal. But when I talk about big campers aren't there yet and the technology isn't good enough for it just to run on lithium batteries its because it ain't. It takes far to long to charge, it's much wasted energy in warmth loss in the batteries themselves. And when cargo gett heavier than 3500kg than it needs juice to go places. U gett that Greta ?
A nice 20 year old camper still retains a good value and would be as usable as it was new if looked after.
What value will this have in 20 years with tech advancements and needing a new battery by then?
I am dutch and can confirm that the electric camper couple has dutch numberplates !
In 2025 the transit with 89er battery will be a nice average car. 26min 10to80. my favorite for a camper van conversion.
Mam 2,2 hdi euro 5 ale chciałbym mieć elektryczny- nie finansowałbym wojny.
Hybride cutting war too
@@sharonbraselton3135 siódmy rok busa tankuje tylko raz. Gdybym miał ev to z prądu z paneli na dachu robiłbym co najmniej kilkanaście tysięcy kilometrów rocznie.
Obviously it is the future! Just as EV on passenger cars.
I build my EV campervan too. Works perfectly.
With the new 2024 EV vans you can get pretty high specs already.
Nice but a quarter million dollars is out of reach for most
100% electric vanlife is the dream but the tech isn't quite there yet to be practical for full time living, maybe when solar gets from 20 to 30ish percent efficiency with some savvy unfolding panels...
With 2024 electric vans it is easily possible. Solar charging is cool, but not a necessity at all.
@@Simon-dm8zv Possible but practical? If you travelling around alot, not really.
@@jedics1 With the charging networks in Europe it would be no problem.
The tech is there, it just can't be produced affordably outside of China. And greedy countries do not want to allow China to move up the value-added chain.
2023 Ford Transit electric $59,000.00
$737 per KwH, €236 per km range. Overpriced asf.
Preferisco misto 😂
Ik vind het voor mijzelf maar een rommelbank. Wij kopen pas een E camper als ze 1000km aankunnen en/meteen alles electrisch binnenin zonder panelen en electrische rommel dat allemaal ooit stuk gaat. Maar ok het is een goed begin
Good idea but for touring not practical charging points in the UK are not good, I think I will what for Hydrogen which can be supplied at any fuel station
Hydrogen will never be a thing for passenger cars or campervans.
You need to create a totally different attitude towards traveling. You must not be in a hurry but enjoy the travel. It's not the destination, but the travel.
We’re currently travelling through the UK and the charging infrastructure is excellent so far! A bit more expensive than on mainland Europe perhaps, but really good 😊
@@Simon-dm8zv
Or for long haul trucks....
@johnrowbotham3197
You really need to do more research on UK charging.
There's plenty.
All is nice and well until the chargers get drained or crowded in an emergency.
The future is hybrid.
Hybrid is the worst of both worlds. Fully electric is the only sensible solution. Chargers don't get drained.
We’ve been to 17 countries and have never run out of battery once! And if we would, we could charge up using our solar panels. It would take a while for sure, but would be enough to get us to the nearest charging station 😊
Nay, sayers... Always looking for the non existing "problem"
Chargers drained... Really 🤣
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Yeah but you have to drive from charging station to charging station
True, but we don’t mind in the slightest 😊
Yeah, unlike a diesel powered van, where you drive from petrol station to petrol station.
Battery life is poor, extremely expensive to replace, cold weather will also effect performance considerably and electric is worse for the environment. Good luck but not for me.
Very, very outdated statements...
@Simon-dm8zv let's see in a few years. Electric is a massive con and us more about controlling people rather than environmental. Obviously the mining for the batteries is much worse for the environment but we will all pretend it isn't.
@@joshwheeler3216 It is clear you are simply not interested in reality. There is no need to ‘wait a few years’. All data is easy to find and has been for years.
@Simon-dm8zv they literally have to charge it after a 150 miles 😂 in the winter even worse! Wakey wakey Simon 🤭
@@joshwheeler3216 That was not the point...
You couldn't pay me to own an electric vehicle!!!
I can't wait to get one. I plan to have enough solar to run my home and my car.
You just watched a completely un-useful video for you and even came to comment. Get better things to do.
Your loss.
Get a mortgage for Fuel next year 👋