Germany: fully electric campervan ready for market

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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).

Both German companies, ElektroFahrzeuge Stuttgart (EFA-S) and WOF, are located in the heart of car-making territory in Baden-Wurttemberg. While EFA-S has made a name for itself as a developer and retrofitter of passenger cars, trucks and buses into purely electric vehicles,WOF has been selling campervans throughout Europe since 2012 and offers upmarket campervans and motorhomes under the brand of Iridium. For this joint project, WOF contributed one of its tried-and-trusted wider commercial vehicle chassis, EFA-S contributed the drivetrain and battery technology, and the two companies commissioned the Swiss campervan manufacturer Maurer Fahrzeugbau to make the e-camper’s bodywork.

EFA-S have developed a drive solution for the e-camper that they claim has already proven its worth with trucks from UPS parcel service. This cooperation dates back to 2014, as we reported. The core component is a synchronous motor including a control unit from Aradex. For the rechargeable batteries, the company relies on lithium iron phosphate batteries, which are linked to the company’s own battery management system.

The Stuttgart-based company has also equipped this model with an integrated charger. This means that the vehicle can be charged anywhere: at conventional sockets, at wall boxes with up to 22 kW, or via a CCS connection at fast-charging stations with up to 50 kW. However, nothing has yet been said about the vehicle’s required charging times. According to EFA-S, the EV campervan has a range of 200 km, but the company claims that this will increase in the future: “Iridium customers can benefit from the fact that battery capacity is rapidly increasing,” says EFA-S Managing Director Bastian Beutel. “The same vehicle can, therefore, more than double its range in the near future with the same battery weight by replacing the battery”.

EFA-S sees its strength exclusively in niche markets. Beutel has been quite explicit in saying that the company does not intend to compete with major automobile manufacturers on mass markets. It has been less than a month since the company announced its cooperation with CS, another company based in Baden-Wurttemberg with the aim of equipping emergency-service vehicles with electric drives. The company recently announced the commissioning of another production hall, and already has a number of existing partnerships with other German companies, such as providing speciality vehicles for Sightseeing Trains Rügen, and electric trucks for the company Bernkastel-Kues.

Source: press release via email

7 Comments

about „Germany: fully electric campervan ready for market“
MR IAN COX
06.12.2018 um 10:08
It's a great start. Look forward to seeing tested on the European roads. fish1chips2.
Nero
06.12.2018 um 22:25
Driving an electric van myself I would guess it has 60-70kWh battery pack inside, which would be more than ok to cover 200km at 90km/h, with this kind of drag coefficiency
Jeremy V Jordahl
15.12.2018 um 23:40
Winnebago Industries in the USA earlier this year already announced a full size Class-A motorhome that is all electric.
leslie Bubik
12.03.2019 um 10:13
do you have a bigger one
Tim Stewart
16.09.2019 um 02:44
Interested when available in usa.and price
Poul Larsen
11.06.2021 um 00:16
Are there any updated to this site yet? Is this vehicle going to be on the New Zealand market?
Lynda Vega
05.08.2021 um 16:42
Is this electric camper available in North America specifically Canada yet? Or cam it be purchases in Gwrmanyband be brought back to Canada? Thank you

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