Yes, Peter!! What we knew as the gas pedal is now known as the throttle!! I currently drive an electric car- a Renault Zoe - and I don’t intend to return to petrol or diesel!! It’s what I call ‘The Silent Killer’!! My car is coming up to the end of her lease, so I’m going to lease a Vikenze III-e!! The Combo Life Electric, as it’s now called, is the Vauxhall Corsa Estate Car.

I could live with this as being my campervan. Well thought out for one person, because this can only be a one person camper, but as there are loads of single travellers I believe this kind of option does have a market. The interior has some good solutions. On the whole a great weekender. The seat solutions are also innovative. Some real thought went into this conversion. A good basic design for someone wanting to do a DIY on their own 'diesel' van IMO without spending a fortune.

Terrific review Peter, very concise & impartial.

As a Peugeot Partner owner with a boot jump this video is great. Would love to have this micro Camper with the permanent setup. Thanks for the content.

As a single traveller I would love this van, I think it is just perfect. ❤

Thanks for this, a really interesting and well thought out vehicle. Great for solo travellers and just shows how quickly electric vehicles are developing.

Wow what a well thought out vehicle, excellent use of space and the fact you can 're charge your vehicle battery from camp hook up is superb . Bit cramped for 2 but ideal for single travellers , clever use of space and I did wonder where clothes would go, until you lowered the bed ,just genius. Thanks for reviewing

Brilliant, as a traveling sales person I've been looking for an option like that, hate hotels and motels, and a normal motorhome is not practical when it comes to parking etc. The range is not so great but in reality probably enough as it's always stop start. The price is a bit scary though, but what a great idea!

I would LOVE ❤️ this camper. So impressed. Waiting for the price!

I have been driving an electric vehicle for the last two years. I only use the B mode, which gives me regenerative braking all the time, even when the B Mode is restricted by either a cold battery or the battery being fully charged.

Very nice van. Really nice electrical habitation setup by the sounds of things. Virtually identicle to what I have had in my old van for the past year. Induction hob, microwave, kettle no gas. I will be taking a close look at some of the other features to see if any of them will go into the DIY build on a Vivaro-e I am planning. It's going to be bigger than this as it's the LWB Vivaro-e but with the 75Kwh battery the range is similar. I really cant wait for the van to turn up so I can get started on it. I have spent the last year analysing my use of my current van and working out what the consequences would be of going electric. I virtually always wild camp so hook up on a camp site and charging there is of no interest to me. About 50% of the weekends I am not going further than the electrical range so just charging at home will do the trick. 40% of the time I will need to charge once at a rapid charger over the weekend. I will probably end up doing this towards the end of my drive to where ever I am going on a Friday night while I cook up a late night meal. It's only 10% of the time that I will need to charge more than once and typically this is going to be more than a weekend trip. I will basically be taking my normal on route coffee stops on long drives at a rapid charger. So nothing really limiting my range any more than my bladder already.

I have it’s bigger brother the e-expert crew cab van with a larger 75kwh battery. Range is 200 miles (plus about 30miles if driven very carefully) perfect for camper van.

The proof of the pudding is when you are wondering what the price is. This van does make one think again about what can be achieved. It is really good. My dream camper van does have integrated power, the same battery for everything rather than a leisure battery. Reason being that you then have options. You can drive further or you can cook. Integrated cooling for the fridge/freezer and main AC would be good too. The Raymond Briggs book where Father Christmas goes to Las Vegas in his own camper van is my inspiration. I have had the dream to have a van like his since I was nine.

What a great use of space. Very innovative. The price is a challenge but an interesting electric option. People will slowly get used to the fact that you do not need to cart around up to a hundred litres of diesel. The fact that you can add seven miles per hour as you enjoy your camping should persuade the progressive camper fan.

That is a very well thought out commentary Peter, thank you for the explanation of kw/h versus mpg, we all need to learn the electric equivalents of cc, HP, mpg and so on that we are used to. Then there are the other variants such as some vehicles come with faster chargers than their cheaper slow charger variants. That one with 300W of solar panel, the huge lithium leisure battery and associated induction hob, microwave, fan heater and compression fridge make it a quite remarkable vehicle. Wheelhome have really thought hard and long about how to use a vehicle as a camper van. I'm curious about opening one flap, removing a lead and plugging it inside another flap. It reminds me of IBM Type 1 data connectors - they were hermaphroditic, the plug plugs into another identical plug. I can't help wondering why the mains cable doesn't just plug into the charging point, specially as the habitation electrics are separate from the charging circuits.

Amazing.

Now I know where I seen you before...... 1984 road testing Sherpa highwayman 😂🌞

Perfect for a single person.

We want one (with a few additions to make it perfect for us). Going to the NEC and hoping to check one out. We sold our diesel camper last year and miss having a day van/van for cycling events.

Fascinating

Yes I almost never used the brakes in my Yaris hybrid which gave the battery the jitters! Love electric 🤗

I assume the mattress for the drop down bed would not allow it to be closed up. A bit rich if it`s for one.

The range is a problem also the charging infrastructure is not up to the job. Some might say that the site electrics is getting used at a constant charging rate unlike normal motorhome intermittent use, it’s the equivalent of having the site coming round and topping up your vehicle with a couple of litres of fuel every day. I do like the concept and how its put together.

Great. I Like e camper

This looks nice. However, I would like to take my bike with me and go for rides from where I am camping. I know you can get external bike racks but I like to keep my bike inside so would need something with a little more space. Something like a Romahome or Nu Venture with a rear door not side door for ease of loading the bike. Both of these have space to have the bike inside and sleep at the same time.

I had a vikenze 1 - incredibly compact, clever design and lots of lovely little touches. Sadly I want more mpg than this - does Stephen do a hybrid?

I love the fact that it is all electric including the habitation side. Bery inovative on the inside. Also, if you habe very limited parking at home, it would be great. My only thought is its really small. Personally I'd prefer something with more room for a bit more money.

nice litle camper, the peugot e expert could do as a base vehicle for a 2 person van quite easily.

An electric camper with a limited range seems kinda counter productive, unless you only wanna go from campsite to campsite or bring a generator to charge it. But it probably feeeels good, like that south park episode called “smug alert”.

I've camped in an eFixxter. Based on the larger eVivaro. Did 310 km secondary roads. Not seen any interesting ones from UK. Besides an Westfalia style set-up. This small one is really clever layout. Albeit a one person car. That campsite charging isn't been allowed that much anymore. Or they charge you silly money. At least in germanyan Holland they got notice the EV profit to much in one price electrics. It's pretty high kWh in the end 😉

EV’s could be the death of both touring caravans and motor homes. Ever since the latest drive towards going all electric within the next ten years was announced , we’ve noticed a decline in the number of touring camp sites. At least 2 in our local area have removed their touring pitches and replaced them with static vans, all crammed in 6 meters apart! There seems to be a technical catch 22 between the necessary power and weight of batteries needed to pull the vehicles. Electric cars are typically much heavier than their internal combustion engine counterparts. When this is applied to motor homes it becomes more of a critical issue, and is bound to significantly reduce payloads. People talk about hydrogen cell technology, but the infrastructure just isn’t there. Let’s face it, the infrastructure for electrical charging points for electric cars is years away from being adequate! Maybe there will be a market for refurbishing used motor homes over the next few years?

Amazing car camper

With the current energy crisis, I'm yet to see how campsites will address charging electric vehicles on their normal power sockets... Let's see if electric leisure vehicles are really the future...

Did you not use B Mode on the ‘gear’ selector? That increases your regeneration and puts your braking energy back into the battery and extends range, lessens brake pedal use and lessens use of brake linings. While on hookup you could use the cars Aircon all night and day! It would only use about 0.5kwh from battery without hookup! Same for heating if needed!! Can’t really do that with diesel without noise and fumes!

Interesting van Peter although some of the features felt a little 70's. I returned from Spain last night covering 1250 miles over 2 days so electric vehicles have a long way to go before they can match that having said that great for local trips, but Devon or Cornwall would be a 2-day hike from here in Liverpool rather than 6-8 hours.. Cheers k.

Maxus Edelivery 3 would be my choice. You could put one together for perhaps £40k, unfortunately too much for me.

It does have a 50kwh battery but that is not the useable capacity. Usable is 45kwh so at 3.7 that's 166 miles. But this ideal conditions, slow stop start traffic is great for EV range, add motorway in the summer it'll be 120 miles. Winter you're certainly looking at under 100 miles on a motorway run. Electric is great, I own one but don't expect the range quoted.

You went round the same corner twice. Is that called artistic licence

About time we saw electric campers, the size of this one is a little grim though.

Great for touring the Scottish Highlands with all their charging points.

Going fully electric is the only sensible option for new motorhomes. This clunky little vehicle demonstrate this fairly well. Of course, the conservatism of vehicle manufacturers does mean that it has taken far too long for any reasonable base vehicle to come along. And the conservatism of vehicle converters means it's still rare to find a motorhome with a proper induction hob.

Amazing use of space would work very well with a small awning like a cube breeze or similar. I wonder if campsites will start charging extra for electric cars etc as they will believe they will be using more electricity

By the way, didn’t you know that you have to PAIR your iPhone with the Vauxhall system?

Shame the upper bunk was so glossed over. Maybe an update with the mattress and how that cable and pulley works. Seems like it’s all in the way… and what’s with that giant hole!

Would of been helpful if you had included the price of the vehicle

No there has been a VW out for about 6 months which is electric and coach built

Personally, I think it’s better to have a key rather than just a fob. It’s more secure than just pressing a starter button!!

It’s the GO pedal. There’s a Stop pedal. That’s it 😂

Nice EV,, but have a look at the Xbus, that will come out in 2023. It has a camper version that will have a better range, is A LOT cheaper and has Solar panels standard. Smaller, but he, we like smaller.

You would trip that out.. even a granny cable uses about 3KW

174 miles? So I'll only need to charge it fully 8 times between home and our usual campsite in France... That'll only add a day to the travel time

£58,000 for something so small is an enormous price.

The petrol version is £ 44,750

Well at least you can have a sleep while it charges. Until the Toyota battery becomes available I am afraid it’s get the bed out we are charging. Now what’s the rule, never let the batt go below 20% and never charge above 80% well simple maths shows that you have lost 40% of range

once they get to 300 mile range in real world winter conditions then i'll get one. i can't travel to europe in this thing.

As evs are more damaging to the environment than the petrol equivalent (Volvo 2021), what's the attraction?

I bet you didn’t know exactly what a Vikenze was. The word relates to a female Viking.

You say starting at £58k. It's a great little solo camper but a new E - Combo van is £31k, making this is a £27k coachbuild? I don't see £27k in this build sorry. The bed locking mechanism is a door bolt @ £1.28 from Toolstation? I'm all for electric and clean transport but this seems very expensive for what it is. I'm supised you made no comment on value for money Peter. 🤓

170m range. WOW. If my Diesel gets to only 150m remaining (of the 650m) then I'm looking to fill up. EV concept is OK but battery tech needs a revolutionary step forward first. Still enjoyed the review.

I can’t think of anything worse

A campervan is the proper definition of independence. An electric campervan it's an oxymoron.

185 mile range? If they can't make a micro camper like this with a realistic range, they'll never manage to build a larger electric motorhome. The last thing I would want to do is spend my holiday planning routes via charging points. We also never hear how the extra weight of the batteries effects the potential payload. Not something that is an issue maybe on such a small campervan, but would definitely be an issue on larger motorhomes.

Some ingenious solutions but £58k for a vauxhall……no…….

Hmm. I would say we are still at least 10 years off of things being really feasible. Can the solar panel charge the vehicle battery? Anything that requires me to move my drivers seat would do my absolute head in!

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“Is this the first credible electric motor caravan? No. But it would make a super day van for a very rich fisherman who wants to do lots of “wild camp” fishing. And who is also extremely eco-conscious. Although they would have to dump all their expensive kit outside if they wanted to sleep in it. That is possibly the only real market for this van. An eco conscious wildlife photographer (another typical single user) would probably drive an electric car and book a cheap airbnb. Personally, I would not waste 58,000 pounds on something in which I probably wouldn’t get a good nights sleep. If you assume as much as 35000 pounds for a reasonable electric car, that still leaves 23000 pounds worth of stays in a comfortable Airbnb or rental cottage somewhere. Or even a B and B or a hotel. I have a Middlesex motor caravans “mira” conversion based on a second hand diesel Citroen Berlingo. Which my partner and I use primarily as a day van on holiday. We could use it for an overnight stay - but quite frankly, a warm bed somewhere is usually not that much more expensive than a stay at a caravan site. I think we would only use it in a “wild camp” situation. For which, it is better suited than the electric vehicle you are demonstrating here at a fraction of the price - in that we are not range limited at all with something like 600 miles of potential motoring in the tank and large enough car canister for plenty of meals. Sorry, but fossil fuel is still the way to go. And even eco-terrorists know this. Which is why most of them have a rule-guzzling range rover as their daily commute. And they will get a comfortable bed and breakfast gratis from the taxpayer just by gluing themselves to a prominent valuable asset somewhere.

To much work to be able to camp. Not large enough for me and my dog. I buy a large motor home

I wouldn’t go for the Rolf Harris look if I was you .

No such thing as a credible EV

Not much good if you want to camp in remote locations with no hook up.

Only about 170 miles? A gas tank gets you 300 at least.they will have to be better before I get one.a 125cc motorbike gets 140 on a gallon of gas. And then you have to wait for it to charge....the living side of the van is well thought out

No!

No such thing as a credible ev.

A loathsome little thing IMO.