can't wait till these chassis start getting the RV treatment
I think it might be really tricky though. Ostensibly the battery warehouse is in the base of the van, so that would definitely make routing utilities like waste water tricky. And not sure how you’d have a heater; electric heat would decimate an electric system and there’s no liquid fuel to speak of.
Remember: it’s only worthwhile if it can get you home too. I guess if you’re doing on-grid only camping it would be fine, but I usually build for a feasible 3-day off grid.
Install a natural gas vessel. Heating, cooking and good for a generator too.
When they do an ID.Buzz California, it's going to be fully sold out for _years_. EV is the perfect platform for a camper van, you can get so much complexity out of the system by having electric everything.
Only if you're happy with being locked to camping lots and RV parks providing 230V outlets. Anyone willing to go off-road/wild camping however... when you're going far out of civilization (which is easy enough to do in Europe and even easier in the US), the last thing you need is your battery dying right when you can't afford it. For an ICE based camper, everyone I know just puts a jerry can or two in it which is almost always enough to get you to a gas station or to keep you supplied with fuel to keep warm over night, but that's not possible with an EV camper.
But it all depends on what you use the RV for. If you want to go to the Appalachians for weeks without human contact, go with the liquid fuel option and bring a lot of it with you. Maybe a small solar panel for electronics.
For a random camper like me with access to a pretty good EV charging network the lack of electricity won't be a problem. the ID.Buzz has a 77kWh battery that can easily run everything I need for multiple days without needing to charge.
Very excited about these.
Hope the battery won’t catch fire cuz someone will be sleeping in it
Are you aware that battery igniting while car parked is exceedingly rare?
I make this mistake a lot, so don't feel too offended.
"OMG what about battery fires!" is so worn out in the EV discussions I don't bother to be nice when rebutting it.
(Granted, the many EV's in there made the fire much harder for fire fighters to put out)
The fire was started by an ICE car :D
It is not like remodeling an RV is going to affect the gas tank. But it sure will make a difference to the battery usage. A gas tank doesn't age in the same way as a battery either, and we don't have as much experience with the kind of battery packs used in cars either (and they differ wildly between models).
https://jalopnik.com/how-one-suv-fire-destroyed-45-million-i...