Electric Motorhome

[BwB]

Haven’t seen this posted before...

Spotted this in the Feb19 Dutch Camping Club magazine. You’ll have to do your own translation but the important bits are obvious

 

[Kannon Fodda]

Really can't see how this would work. You can rule out wildcamping for a start as without an EHU you're not going to get very far and solar isn't going to ever give enough juice to recharge the motor batteries. Plus you won't be recharging leisure batteries as you are motoring along.

 

[DP+JAY]

Looks like it comes with a very poor 400kg ish payload as well as an eyewatering price.
DP

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[funflair]

Looks like it comes with a very poor 400kg ish payload as well as an engineering price.
DP

Unless you put a few options on, then it will be less

Martin

 

[SpeedyDux]

Did they actually say it was krap?

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[RogerThat]

Did they actually say it was krap?

No, I did

 

[Lenny HB]

Looks like it comes with a very poor 400kg ish payload as well as an engineering price.
DP

Just what I was thinking, you will loose all of that with the big genny for recharging the batteries.

 

[wiljoy]

Before we take electric seriously surely we need some power stations to drive charging.
My neighbour has a Nissan Leaf and cannot use it if it's cold and raining. We live in a hilly area and to travel to the nearest shopping centre it runs out of power. By using the wioers and hezter with lights its shot in no time. He's been towed home three times this winter.
Electric? No thanks.

 

[BwB]

Does seem like an EV just for the sake of it. But I was talking to a guy on the ferry who thought if the price was around that of a similar sized ICE motorhome that it would be atractive to weekend hobbyists. No good for a quick dash down to Spain but maybe ok for weekends at the sea/Cotswolds/Lake District etc.

Think the price of this one needs a “slight” tweak before any sort of users take it seriously

 

[Lenny HB]

As it's a Dutch mag the price will be about 20% less elsewhere in Europe due to their vehicle taxes. Probably be dearer in Rip off Britian.

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[rosalan]

I have a mental image of vans, like this, strewn all over the countryside when they failed to make it to a charging point because of a multitude of delaying possibilities like accidents, road works, getting lost, traffic lights and slow moving vehicles.
As soon as they can recharge themselves or equal the distance achievable with traditional fuels, if they are not too expensive, put me down for one.

 

[olley]

As it's a Dutch mag the price will be about 20% less elsewhere in Europe due to their vehicle taxes. Probably be dearer in Rip off Britian.

Not the case, the Dutch give large subsidies on electric vehicles. Almost certainly dearer in the UK as we don't offer the same subsidies.

 

[Rodleydodley]

The March MMM had an article about this EV. Its MAX range is 180 miles (300km) It's only available at the moment from Germany and it costs £156,000!!!!

 

[GPW]

Best to just buy the electric version of the Nissan NV200 and convert it, much cheaper and easier!

 

[Lenny HB]

The March MMM had an article about this EV. Its MAX range is 180 miles (300km) It's only available at the moment from Germany and it costs £156,000!!!!

So in real life about 100 miles if you are lucky.
Take a long time to get down to southern Spain and that's assuming you are able to park near a charging point every few hours.

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[jockaneezer]

So, under perfect conditions, you could probably drive for only 3 hours before you have to stop for how long to recharge ? I'm oot !

 

[GPW]

The funny thing is that the cost of €169,000 represents the amount of labour (energy) that went into making it.

That pays the people to mine the materials, to drive to work, to heat their houses etc, so essentially it pays for the energy that goes into making it.

This energy generally comes from oil, so the 'environmental cost' of production is roughly equivalent is to buying €169k worth of diesel and burning it. This is a general rule - the cost of something is generally the energy taken to make it.

This is why expensive electric cars don't really save any fuel being burned.. a diesel is still the most efficient!

 

[Just smiffy]

Before we take electric seriously surely we need some power stations to drive charging.
My neighbour has a Nissan Leaf and cannot use it if it's cold and raining. We live in a hilly area and to travel to the nearest shopping centre it runs out of power. By using the wioers and hezter with lights its shot in no time. He's been towed home three times this winter.
Electric? No thanks.

And does he feel smug..? Having a lemon parked on his drive....

 

[HandyAndy]

I have a mental image of vans, like this, strewn all over the countryside when they failed to make it to a charging point because of a multitude of delaying possibilities like accidents, road works, getting lost, traffic lights and slow moving vehicles.
As soon as they can recharge themselves or equal the distance achievable with traditional fuels, if they are not too expensive, put me down for one.

I don't think you understand how an electric vehicle works! If you are not moving, then you are not using electric and slow moving traffic is MASSIVELY more efficient than doing 50/60/70 mph as there is very little to no wind resistance to account for. So you will go FURTHER in slow stop start/congested traffic!

 

[HandyAndy]

So, under perfect conditions, you could probably drive for only 3 hours before you have to stop for how long to recharge ? I'm oot !

With the new 250Kw chargers, a 250mile range vehicle from flat to full would be 15 minutes... (1000miles of charge pr hour)

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[Dorwyn]

A friend of mine has a small electric car, and he thinks it's great. He lives in a (posh) small outlying village, just 4 miles from town, and just uses it for shopping or local social events. Suits him down to the ground. But for motorhomes, to me they do not make any sense. I just think about the weight of the amount of batteries required to power one for any usable distance, couldn't go far on a fully loaded MH under 3.5t.