"Who designed this!?" Well, it's designed for diesel, they just reused the port. But yes, they should move it to the front, definitely.

German size: Oh Helga! :D

To everyone wondering why so low range why not bigger battery, the reason is simple: Most people who drive these vans do so with an EEA B class driving license. This allows a maximum vehicle weight of 3.5 tonnes. So with a bigger battery, the payload will become tiny or people will need the C1 class license, but people would not want that. We should start a petition anyway to raise the weight limit for Evs

Can you put a Fiat 500e inside?

Ahhh 100 km sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet 11:04

Banana box test!!!!!!

50 minutes driving and 50 minutes charging? sounds like a chill life for the persons who works with it

Why didn't they at least double the battery?

For a fleet operator, the placement of the chargeport probably won't be much of an issue as they would likely have wall/fence mounted charge units that would allow the vehicles to parallel park - and most will charge overnight/after-hours.

Should be named Volkswagon Nimber tasker

In Germany these things overtake you going 160 on the Autobahn in the pouring rain. Germans will be mad about the sane speed limit of the electric version. Hahahaaa

Once builders fit out the back with shelving and fill the van with tools, the weight will go up and then how will the batteries cope. Need to do a test with two people and a lot of weight in the back. That charge point... sheeeeit.

You really need to clean the roof off. My ex wife and my son got into a wreck on the highway from ice coming off the top of a semi. It shattered the windshield while they were driving at 70mph. Some really scary stuff.

This will be my next camper van! I wouldn't even mind the small range. We like to take our time and we take many stops along the way anyway. :)

VWs Ride Hailing Service Moia starts in April 2019 in Hamburg with converted e-Crafter with a Range of 300km WLTP. So maybe there will bei a new longer Range e-Crafter soon.

Thanks for reviewing this. One of my long term goals is to make a solar sprinter van conversion into tiny house on wheels. It will be exactly like this design with 2kW solar when driving and expanding to 4-6 kW with awnings at rest. It won't be a highway/freeway van but something on scenic side roads for travelers. Also, I am safe I will put in like a 2-4kW gas generator for emergencies and topping off situations. But, mainly an eco travelers vehicle. Sprinter vans for housing and traveling is ideal and real; tons of videos and KZfaqrs do this. Also, a channel called "Route de Sol" made a DYI bigger truck full solar and batteries. Look them up; they are going from Alaska to the tip of South America on only solar.

looking forward to the banana box test.

.....Bjorn, I am the standard german - 202cm/97KG, perfect to drive crafter! Thank you for your test and for loving germany!!

I'm from America and even I think it looks freaking huge! (For context, I've heard Americans call the Model X a "little SUV" several times. Sheeeeeeeeeit)

i see so many different ev's in oslo that the manufacturer doesnt seem to advertise, i saw a ford focus ev the other day, who knew :) maybe its a proving ground

this van is pure marketing, imagine it is fully loaded - range 50km? the van is designed by controllers, no engineer would put the plug there, it is only because of cost.

The charge port actually makes more sense on the side. It's less prone to hits in accidents and has a shorter path to the battery so less cables and so on. It's the charger layout which doesn't make sense.

That E-Van is so huge it looks like you can put that Nissan Leaf parked beside it inside the van. The features are really very good and I have an idea how to increase the range of that vehicle, by installing Tesla Power Wall 2 battery packs inside the huge cargo compartment. It fits flat to the wall so it will only affect the cargo space minimally, by a few inches. Each of those power wall has up to 14 kWh. energy storage, so you can add more battery packs if you want to increase the range even further.

"It's german size. Uhh, Helga!" Hahahaha :D

For your average multi-drop delivery driver in a big city with Ultra Low Emissions regulations it will be perfect. What is under the bonnet?

"100 km range, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit". I love your reaction. Keep up the great work....

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Wow that's great, I never expected to see a Crafter in your chanel. Once you showed us your mother's VW Transporter T4 which was diesel and syncro 4wd.

We tried to use the E Crafter as a maintenance car for wind turbines. Fully loaded (with a mounted workshop inside) the range is definitely too small. So we still drive with Diesel engines to the wind turbines.

Teslabjørn the one and only real EV tester! Great video, thanks for the hard work.

Please load it up with some heavy stuff ... These are made for high loads ... And tell us about range decrease

So disappointed that we didn't get a "Sheeeeeeeiiit" when Bjorn tried to open the driver side door while charging.

Always be driving from your charging/parking-spott. No reversing. Chargeport in the back please...

Bjørn, go fast on a roundabout while nobody is behind you and no police, then the snow will fall right off!

Can you pop the Hood/Bonnet? curious to see how much room is under there, thanks :)

Thanks for discovering a major design flaw: you can't open the driver's door when its charging because the cable gets in the way. They should fix this before they sell any vans.

You could put a tarp on the roof, so each morning you can just pull it off with all the snow off roof.

Please do a banana box test!!!

I'm going to have to visit Norway. Always looks great.

In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit.

This is an excellent video, you've considered everything, very carefully and in the real world testing it out on a journey. Well done! Yes, the charge port is too far back for sure, but should not be in front as the vehicle is long and would be too long to park in a bay, but the charge point, I think, should be placed at front of door, not behind it. But you still managed it all OK, using the other door for entry etc., and most times it'll be charged at home anyway. I think it's a brilliant van, really desirable, I'd love to own one. Thanks for this great video, best wishes from Alan, in UK.

Most efficient vehicle you have ever tested. Imagine carrying a full load of lavatory paper. 1 trip in this. 5 trips in an env200, 30 trips in modelx.

Bjorn. I am a committed hydrocarbon combustion fan from Australia, but I love your videos, and I have learned so much about electric cars from them. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about EV's because we are so far behind the rest of the world.

The charging port is in the same spot as the diesel tank filler cap 🤔

Funny it having the eGolf drivetrain when you think the original Type 2 had Beetle running gear!

Put a fan heater in the back while your at home it will clear snow in minutes.

An e-Golf drivetrain in an e-Crafter... Well now we know that the drivetrain can handle the weight of a trailer (and I assume, so can most other EVs). So I guess the only reason that VW, and other manufacturers, won’t offer a tow hitch on their electric vehicles, is that they’re just lazy. I mean you can get a hitch on a fossil Golf, so it’s not like they have to invent something new.

The diesel flap of my Crafter is in the same place as that charge port. Someone got lazy and decided to keep things consistent. I bet that model you tested is specially insulated for sound. Most Crafters are sold with bare metal in the back and no wall between the front and back.

Now imagine if they used this battery and the GTE engine with the e-golf motor in the front. Instant range extender van which would cut city emissions by a mile.

You grew a cm. ;) Holy heck the cabin looks so big. Such a monster.

I know you stopped Nimbering but please make a big Cargo Road trip! 😎👍⚡️

Road trip Björn! Now you have a hotel, with wheels, but cold in the back?! 😉

Looks like you have a polar ice cap on the roof. If it melts the sea levels will rise for sure!

once you load the van up the "thirst" will be much greater good possibility for live in when designed improved

That van certainly has room for more batteries and a bigger drive motor. I wonder how good of a platform it would be for a camper / live-in van. It has enough roof space for quite a lot of solar panels - even stacked for deployment when parked camping.

We need a banana box test. Also, would be interested to see the efficiency at 80% weight load out.

This is the future of motorhomes. I hope in few years we'll see bigger more practical batteries that would allow these vans to have 500km range, then electric motorhomes can become a reality.

I bet that would make a good EV camping van

Now, that makes sense. Might be the first EV, where I do not question anything.

To the snow on the roof. Try to heat up the cabin and then do some hard braking (somewhere safe obviously). It should slide to the front.

I have an ioniq and find that I like the placement of the charge port much better then the other cars that I have tried which have th port in the front because of winter. When the charge port is clear in the front like my dads soul ev it gets frozen shut when you drive in winter conditions! Not very useful learn you get to a charger. And my wife have the spark ev which has the port in the left fender but when there are roadside chargers its on the wrong side of the car! So you cant even change at least with the ioniq it is closer to the back of the car and you can usually get the cable to reach

I love the drivers-door-autolock feature during charging! Hilarious! Want this in my Ioniq as well! ;-)

Imagine this with another battery, solar on the roof and a bed inside ;) Dont even have to add a batterypack since you have one built in!

Don't complain about the charging port. This car isn't intended for private use. It's for companies with vehicle fleets that will install their own charging stations at their depots. And your testing procedure is just totally wrong for this kind of car. The usage of vehicles like this is: Drive 10 - 15 km then stop the car (from depot to delivery area). Repeat the following procedure for about 8 hours: Start the car, drive 50-100 meters, stop the car, wait for 2-3 minutes (working in the delivery area). After that you drive about 10 - 15 km (back to the depot). Because that's what postmen do.

Looking forward to seeing how the e-Crafter preforms in city driving

How to ICE a charging station with an EV? 11:55

The name of ther person that designed Crafter and E-crafter is Laurent Boulay.

For last mile use, the potential range isn’t bad. But that’s empty. Get it loaded up to its 970kg to 1720kg net load weight, (depending on spec.). And I can see that range drop by a 1/3 or 1/2. So I can’t see it being used outside a single big town or city. And how many small businesses will be willing to spend perhaps €63,000 ex. taxes. Maybe company delivery fleets.

Great video with that transporter. They should build more cars like that to bring the industries to electric transportation end not using dirty and noisy Diesel .

Next level nimber trips!

Drive this to Tromso with a ton of Nimber tasks, lol the hardest challenge season 1 episode 2! I love this van, though the interior is so nice for a van and I'd love to drive this everyday at work

Oh no Bjorn is turning into a white van man ! I found myself surprisingly liking this monster - other than the charge port position and range it is a very functional vehicle and this always appeals to me. Fortunately I only need something a great deal smaller :-) .

Nevermind the e-Crafter. Is that a very nice looking early 80s Passat on the other side of the roundabout at 2:50?!

Regarding the charging port locations the Fastned stations are really well designed with chargers placed next to the car.

oh wow! the consumption is near the e-tron, and also the weight! ;-)

Just adapted the diesel van chassis into electric. The van sure deserved more autonomy. 300kms would be fair enough for a daily city drive delivery.

That van should have twice as many batteries as an E-Golf.

Lika many people already said, the chargingport is at this place because the fuel filling port would be in the same place. This isn't about dumb design, it is all about price. The same reason why they have the same shifting stick and key as the diesel. All about the costs.

Would be good as a camper van conversion, but needs a 70kw battery minimum. That will be one heavy van!

I’m waiting for the banana box test 😀

In the U.K Plumbers, joiners, window installers etc use vans this size but we don’t have the infrastructure to support Electric vehicles. Great videos by the way 👍🤓👍

Wow. How many Nimber tasks could you do with that?? You would be on the road for days.

Triple the battery capacity, and make it a passenger version with 8 seats and it's a winner.

Thanks for the video Bjørn. Do a banana test! )))) But seriously, it would be beneficial if you could test the van loaded up to its payload limit.

May you can customise it with more battery packs putted on back floor.

This would be amazing for a campervan conversion

“Yes I can enter from this side” 😆😆😆😆😆

7:09 German engineering at its finest. xD

FINALLY SOME GERMAN HUMOUR for charging flaps haha you've made my day bjørn ;)

haha Helga, nice one. To the size of the transporter its normal for any 3.49t transporter. Driving the ICE things for a long time now. But there are even longer and extra extra high roof at least for the Sprinter types available. But with those you cant get into some "roads" here in germany^^ Sometimes you cant make a left or right turn bc of parking cars. Thats where the fun begins. THX for the vid. PS: DHL has an electric transporter but over 3.49t close to 5t i read somewhere. Would be nice if you have connections there ;)

That should make a good plumbing truck for me.

I would love a long range chassis. I only need a 500kg payload. I fear I will have to retro fit a sprinter/transit with Tesla batteries, plus have a trailer with another 150 kWh

So funny .....and ... informativ You make me smile a lot

I dont really know what you expected 100Km is pretty good for sutch a big vehicl and remeber most people dont drive it empty either

1:10 Interesting place for the VW logo there, where probably easily break off when close the doors in wrong order.

To bad you stopped doing nimber tasks! ;) Could be a fun trip.. Hahaha.. +600km in that one. :D

Keep up the great work. It is very entertaining and educational. And please keep the videos coming! :)

Bjørn Nyland getting famous so fast.. i'm wondering if he even know how fast he is getting famous! in short, watch Bjørn Nyland he will show you the future of the cars

:-)))))) Oh Helga

Imagine the consumption with the cargo area at full capacity... Having only the battery of an e-golf is useless...