Solar Powered Camper Vans! | Solarrolla FULL INTERVIEW
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I so want this. So many diesel campers are being taken off the road because of legislation so a camper is the perfect candidate for conversions with solar panels. Being sat in a natural setting for a few days while you recharge just from the sun is the dream of every vanlifer.
This was fun to watch. In 2010 my wife bought a Tesla Roadster sport. So I bought a 914 Porsche and made a poor mans roadster. It had 34 lithium batteries, a 110v ac motor. A fun project but I burnt up the trans trying to shift gears. That Harbor Freight crimper was the best tool
Hi William, I had 1x 914-4 2.0 Liter, and 2x 914-6 in the 70th. So I am very interested in your 914 Story... Can you please give me more infos on that ?
So awesome to see the solarrolla couple on here.
As a reminder to any DIY solar project cleaning or repair. Solar is always "LIVE".
For me it's all about freedom and independence.
Thank You for All that you are doing for our Planet Earth....
Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste
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As you said until you build a solar vehicle yourself, you really don’t really know there is this big sun…free power. I felt the same way years ago when I started sailing… there really is this free power called the wind…you just need to learn how to advantage the power…sailing is freedom, it’s the most exciting 7 mph you will ever experience.
Autonomous sailikg males it xtra foon
nice and many thanks to you and solarolla
You're either going to be encumbered by a gas station or encumbered by clouds and darkness. And this comes from a guy who lives FT in a motorhome with over 5,000 watts of solar that I designed and built myself - but I wouldn't rely on it as the sole source of propulsion. It's sort of like having a sailboat. When the wind stops so do you. It's really just a math problem. I have 8, 550w panels (4,400 watts) on my roof and a 620w liftable array on the side of my MH to charge 23.5kwh of batteries, but this just supplies my electrical needs for everyday living, not propulsion.
If I had a 44ft motorhome I could fit 2 more 550w panels on the roof. If I did the same to each side to make 2 liftable arrays for a total of 30, 550-watt panels of 16.5 kw it still only put out 60-80kwh a day on avg. How far could say 70kwh a day propel a 35,000+ lb. motorhome? Then you would need at least twice that in batteries (roughly twice as much as a Tesla car has). And what kind of range would you get from this? The Tesla 18-wheeler Tractor is said to get 1.7kwh/mile, so let's say you get three times this as the RV would be much lighter. 70/1.7 x 3 = 123 miles/day recharge rate. You would have roughly a 250-mile range (if you had 150kwh in batteries batteries) for one day and then take 2 days of sitting with panels deployed to recharge what you use in a single 250-mile day - that is if the weather cooperated. You could add more batteries for more range, but it would be pointless as it would take too many days to recharge, making road trips impractical. This project would easily add another $100k to the cost of the motorhome. I think if solar panels got to 35-40% efficiency and the energy density of batteries doubled - but the cost of both dropped by half, it might be feasible at a future date, but I don't think consumers would accept the limitations of the concept just yet.
Thank goodness for Insurance!
Oh man I hope they got to keep their "totalled" van! It looks like you just have to saw off the corner, fabricate a new one and get a new windshield and door. If they could make that roof mod, this shouldn't be that much more difficult, although this involves welding. With a bit of fiberglass and filler, it can even look as good as new!
I like your new bearded looks :-) I can't wait for solar vehicles to become a thing !!
This opened up a whole new world to me. I ran into a snag regarding 4 wheel drive. I was thinking off the top of my head, what if I have 2 wheel and assistant motors for the front wheels added that kick in when needed. I would really love a 4x4 camper for beaches and reclusive locations.
I am going to have to spend tomorrow going over this estar van you talked about.
New esprinter has a range of 270 miles articulated array on one of these would be awesome. Aptera will be offering their solar cells for design and installation on whatever project you could build as a side business to their ev which could be a nice lightweight towable vehicle for rvs
Have you looked at the Stella Vita which is a solar camper ? It was designed by a group of students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. There are a number of videos of it on TH-cam.
How about looking into the Bike Boat Camper --- BeTRITON (Z-TRITON 2.0)? It is also on TH-cam.
A nice usecase for future multijunction solar cells.
MTU 20' CNSA here. ♥️ solar in the yoop is surprisingly worth it.
Respect for this approach.
Great for Australian outback, you'd never get stranded.
I traveled from Germany last year with a balcony solar package on the roof of my car (800 Watt & grid tie inverter - available on mainland Europe, criminally banned in UK) and set it up on my mum's roof. She now, because she is from the frugal generation and unplugs things at night, has a zero leccy bill! I literally 'solar powered my mum'! 🙂
Abandon the virgin grid tie (aka giving the electric company your roof), embrace the chad LIPO
A willingness to be more hands on with solar completely changes the entire value equation from not worth doing to absolutely worth doing right now. A 30 grand solar project turns into a 8 grand project and payback becomes 3 years instead of 10. Once the 192wh blade batteries become affordable we will see an explosion in conversions of gas cars with enough density to get a few hundred km from a pack that fits in the boot for under 10 grand.
Like Jesy was saying, soon (when we hit the “age of abundance” and everyone has “universal high income”) we could people in every garage tinkering and making stuff ! 😀👌
Oh wow! 100 miles of range!! I can camp all the way to the city park!!!
@31:46, Starved Rock, Hey, I grew up there!
Talk about a coincidence. Aptera just announced doing solar powered panels for a local manufacturer of RV trailers. See today's APtera Owners Club video. BTW, I learned about Aptera because of you two. Thanks
I charge my Ford lightning truck using my home solar system.
It would be nice to dream that one day there will be a solar car with a good range. There is no need for a charging station.
The Solarrolla guys are so awesome, I hope they can build me a cybertruck solar camper one day :) Why it this on the Disruptive Investing channel though, are they raising investment?
Hydrofoil a pontoon boat… interesting 🤔
Have you read about pleated panels? I hear they're more efficient than flat ones over the course of a day.
I love the solarrolla estars.
I’m just curious about the real world range. According to data the new one has 5kWp of solar…
The data I have is about 2,5kWh/kWp on an avarage day (numbers are from Germany). So that would be 12,5kWh a day…
An electric vehicle like the E-Star got to use at last 25kWh/100km (62 miles)… so it would be about 50km (32miles) what is great, but for a road trip I’d need a minimum of doubling it…
The claimed 200miles id love to see… not even in California with its sun…
But I love the technics and love to see more.
And I know from the route del sol E-star that solarrolla didn’t even tap into the dc Batterie direct, what would to my knowledge be more effective..
Also id love to see a rivian Van converted, with solar.
Class D audio amplifiers are way more efficient than the class B oldschool amps. Most house amps are class AB, nowadays and small stuff like Bluetooth speakers with a battery are class D to make the battery last longer. There are a lot of modern house class D amps and car class D amps around. And they would be ideal in the solar van, making it more effective. 😅🎉
Awesome content
I found iif you coil your charging cord and put it under the phone it charges faster!
the future is more charging stations with solar shade parking.
Having owned several old busses one thing they don’t need is weight up high
Should be more than offset by the mass of the battery pack down low.
5:23
Sandpaper voice crackle. Ouch
articulating ie spelling out words, but try a solar powered airboat glider, with at least 16m^2 solar wing surface area, with high low weight lift, yep delta wing hang glider, instead of narrow wide wings, but those wide narrow wings would be easy to fold on top of the car, in segments. current commercial li-ion and lead-acid batteries cost too much.
I have worked pretty hard to find the TH-cam channel for you guys
But I couldn’t find it
Could someone please post a link?
I stumbled on it
I’ll post the link here in case anyone had the same difficulty
Anyway, here it is…
th-cam.com/video/GDrXAnaeS_I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jPrBiMII3jE7itq7
Everytime I see the Sion from Sono Motors I am close to tears. I miss this car so much. You guys forgot to mentioned the X-Bus from Electric Brands. But the company get bankrupt this year.
Man, whatever happened to Route Del Sol? I think he totally gave up.
He had an accident with some wind and panels , plus during pandemic and life got in his way a bit it seems. Poor guy hope he can get on his feet again.
@@katiegreene3960 I have kept checking back but it seems he never got back on the project.
the issue in most countries will be insuring the custom / modified vehicles
If only there was a Easy to use solar car charger, from solar to a 400v battery pack. I would add it to my smart fortwo and make a roofrack with solar. even if it charges 5 km a day I would be glad.
I am the Highlander. I really don’t want to hear a new story about a Highlander getting crushed.😂😂😂😂 PS kindness is always free
When nature fights back.
God will not be mocked because God is reality.
"Pave the streets with gold." Jesus
To mitigate the Earth's increasing double torus magnetosphere due to it's orbits passing between the two energies of the Sun's Oort cloud magnetosphere.
Or put permanently sympathetic magnets to the fermie cells of the earth sun galaxies magnetospheres and precious soft metal magnetic separator coiks underneath cars and trains to siphon of the Earth's increasing magnetosphere.
These are just the birthing pains. The first of Noah's cataclysmic East to West tidal wave deluges will be pulled out and around the planet by the new moon with the first major conjunction of mercury and Venus in 2033 and every 40 years thereafter.
Jesus is the truth and only way to have life and life more abundantly on his father's planet.
Will never touch starlink and only a tesla if its a crashed one for battery to convert my van!
7:44 Hmmm... don't believe that. Lets just say they could get that van down to 400 Wh/mi in efficiency. Your are telling me that this van has enough solar panels to grab 40 KWh a day? Aint no way mah boi. You aint got to lie to kick it.
Bruh you sound like you from the streets. Frl thought I was the only one from the streets that cares about this kind of stuff frl. We needa keep pushing our knowledge 💪😎
No way it's radfoo! :D
I hope they upgrade the brakes on their vw conversion. I have scary memories of driving in the Sierras and having the brakes getting so hot on the downhill that I could feel the heat coming off them in the drivers seat. If you added a few hundred pounds of panels and batteries it would be insane.
Regen! You pump that potential energy back into the battery instead of making heat.
I keep trying to get my rusty old bicycle stolen so I'll have an excuse to get an electric, no such luck so far...
The Aptera is full on vaporware. I reserved back in like 2016 and was promised a car by ~2019? I cancelled last year. It's never going to happen.
Aptera wasn't accepting reservations until 2019... you are lying. Now Aptera is soon to be cash positive before they have even build one single car with their solar products. Your patience will be punished while I retire early.
@@BryanDoesCinema There was the first iteration of Aptera back in ~2007 but that is pretty much gone.
140w panel for $900 no thanks you keep pushing those to your celebrity market. I’ll stick with the market priced
Is 100 a better price?
Even a CIGS isn't that!
You almost lost me when you tell me it is simple to change a Timing Belt!! Ok, ok, I said, almost.
Stupid idea