Germany: fully electric Motorhome ready for market

[dave newell]

Yes imagine how impossible it must have looked to have a petrol station in every village . Impossible they cried... There's not enough petrol in the world!

Very true Jim, when the motor trade was in its infancy there were no petrol stations, you bought petrol from the chemists shop. There were no garages offering breakdown recovery and repair/servicing. Didn't stop the industry taking off though did it?

D.

 

[gus-lopez]

Just need the charging network that is coming ( it has to )

Yes imagine how impossible it must have looked to have a petrol station in every village . Impossible they cried... There's not enough petrol in the world!

Unfortunately here many would still like electricity in their houses. Having never seen an electric charging point ,other than one Tesla system & only ever seen one customer, anywhere in spain I'd think they will struggle here.
Especially as we also have a shortage as the weather gets warmer. Then you have to ask how many sites are going to put in electric charging points when the cost of electricity here is charged on what capacity you purchase & most , even if they wanted it , would either not have the capacity available locally ,therefore they couldn't have it or , as is usual, they would have to pay the full costs of the infrastructure & all installation. Just like house owners do .

 

[jezport]

And lets see what they dont like about electric vehicles so they can tax them. Dirty lithium!

 

[Blue Knight]

What's the RRP for this MoHo - does anyone know yet.

 

[joka250]

The point has already been made regarding space in car parks for a motorhome t o charge. Most UK car parks have height barriers to prevent the likes of us entering. What then the likely hood of being able to plug in and if you can what will it cost. I know at the moment we can do it for free in most car parks but that's costing the operator very little for 2 or 3 points especially with government support, but that won't last unless there is a hike in tax to pay for it.

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[Blue Knight]

The point has already been made regarding space in car parks for a motorhome t o charge. Most UK car parks have height barriers to prevent the likes of us entering. What then the likely hood of being able to plug in and if you can what will it cost.

......hence the reason why the C&MC has raised its leccy prices for next year. It will probably be the only place to charge your leccy MoHo for the first few years

 

[Allanm]

The problem with electric vehicles is the more you drive, the less useful it becomes. My brother had a Tesla but sold it and bought a diesel Jaguar. The Tesla couldn’t cope with the amount of miles he had to do most days.
At the moment, an electric vehicle is a novelty for people who do minimal mileage.

 

[joka250]

......hence the reason why the C&MC has raised its leccy prices for next year. It will probably be the only place to charge your leccy MoHo for the first few years

Fair point. My knowledge of charge points is limited but I doubt wether their system would cope with more than 1 or 2 at a time and certainly not if too many hair dryers and coffee makers switched on as well.

 

[eddie]

Will it be legal to tow a 6kva diesel genny you could have it running all the time on heating oil and unlimited mileage lol

On our new camper we have a 5Kva Generator is built in

The point has already been made regarding space in car parks for a motorhome t o charge. Most UK car parks have height barriers to prevent the likes of us entering. What then the likely hood of being able to plug in and if you can what will it cost. I know at the moment we can do it for free in most car parks but that's costing the operator very little for 2 or 3 points especially with government support, but that won't last unless there is a hike in tax to pay for it.

We are nice clean LPG and Petrol so we are Crit Air Class One The lowest possible unless 100% Electric

 

[Jim]

Unfortunately here many would still like electricity in their houses.

Yes but living in a third world country is your choice . There are some benefits of living in Spain though. In the winter is doesn't smell of poo quite so much

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[SpeedyDux]

Resistance is futile???

Germany has been assimilated by the Borg Collective. Surprised - NOT.

 

[Wildbill]

What nex frome Germany the fully electric panzer

Bill

 

[Lenny HB]

What's the RRP for this MoHo - does anyone know yet.

Probably make Concorda & Morel's look like a bargin.

 

[Geo]

Very true Jim, when the motor trade was in its infancy there were no petrol stations, you bought petrol from the chemists shop. There were no garages offering breakdown recovery and repair/servicing. Didn't stop the industry taking off though did it?

D.

Of Course you'd remember those days Dave
Merry Christmas

 

[Geo]

Due to very recent battery imrovements
It's reported Payload has been increased to 1lb 3.1/2oz

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[Jim]

Due to very recent battery imrovements
It's reported Payload has been increased to 1lb 3.1/2oz

Batteries are heavy, but then so is 100L of diesel, a compression engine, exhaust etc, and we won't need leisure batteries. Payload could go up

 

[WESTY66]

Batteries are heavy, but then so is 100L of diesel, a compression engine, exhaust etc, and we won't need leisure batteries. Payload could go up

Gonna be a hell of a lot of people out of a job!! The electric drive train won’t take that amount of slack up in the jobs market.

 

[Geo]

Not a prayer Jim 2lb at a push
More chance of you winning the Christmas Auction

 

[funflair]

Probably make Concorda & Morel's look like a bargin.

Well "Maurer Fahrzeugbau to make the e-camper’s bodywork" this won't make it the cheapest in the world IMO,

Anybody who doesn't know Maurer check here http://www.maurer-swiss.ch

This might look like a Sprinter coach built/PVC until you realise that the whole front end is wider than a Sprinter the sides are subtly curved and it is all made of fibreglass, they have taken the original cab bodywork and stretched it and integrated it with the rear body and then made moulds, a lot of work for something that doesn't look much different to the original, I had a good look at them at Dusseldorf

Martin

 

[busby]

The first purely electric campervan is market-ready and will be shown in Stuttgart at the CMT travel trade fair in January 2019. The e-camper is scheduled for market the same year. The Iridium EV is the product of a cooperation between EFA-S (powertrain and batteries) and WOF (chassis).

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Be the ideal van to tour Morocco it i should think, BUSBY

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[Kybod]

Hi, I've never really agreed with the environmental benefits of an electric vehicle compared to fossil fueled ones, they're just different. In my opinion what is gained in local air quality, is lost to the environmental cost in the production of the batteries (usually in poorer parts of the world).
Lets be realistic, the mining industries of the world have never been known for being green friendly. How can digging up thousands of tonnes of the earth's crust or pumping millions of litres of water underground to extract a few grams of rare earth minerals be considered an environmental benefit.
The article below gives sober reading.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact
Mike

 

[denisejoe]

I was thinking of getting one of these.. and converting to a camper...

Good for 50 - 60 miles...

Loaded with milk you would have been lucky for 20 to 30 miles

 

[Boringfrog]

You would think it would have a full integrated solar roof system so you can change on the move?

 

[KUSKUS]

Back when I was a youth I used to build the things !

 

[gus-lopez]

Yes but living in a third world country is your choice . There are some benefits of living in Spain though. In the winter is doesn't smell of poo quite so much

You forgot the sun shining daily in winter. living around farms it always stinks & the flies have nearly died out at last.

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[busby]

Yes but living in a third world country is your choice . There are some benefits of living in Spain though. In the winter is doesn't smell of poo quite so much

in the winter it smells of Almond blossom,,BUSBY.

 

[dave newell]

Of Course you'd remember those days Dave
Merry Christmas

Maybe Geo but you must remember the days when there was only horses pulling carts around, what with being older than me and all

D.

 

[jongood]

You forgot the sun shining daily in winter. living around farms it always stinks & the flies have nearly died out at last.

Thats what surprises me about spain, they seem to have solar farms and windfarms all over the place yet they re still short of power.

 

[jongood]

Yes imagine how impossible it must have looked to have a petrol station in every village . Impossible they cried... There's not enough petrol in the world!

There is a bit of a conundrum here though:

The government cannot afford to lose the 'green' taxes from us needing to use vehicle to go about our business.

Its politically difficult to come up with a new reason to tax electric cars and still get people to buy them.

Given the above people no longer want fossil fuelled power stations, Nuclear scares the sh*t out of them, nobody wants the country covered in wind turbines and the weather isnt good enough to rely on solar.

Jon

 

[jongood]

On our new camper we have a 5Kva Generator is built in

We are nice clean LPG and Petrol so we are Crit Air Class One The lowest possible unless 100% Electric

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Its looks very nice but its nuts that a truck with a V10 IC engine is considered 'clean'.
A bit like pellet boilers!!

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