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Trailer caravans not so good in U.K. or Europe our roads too narrow and roads busy so other drivers get hacked off as you drive slowly compared to a VW or car.

LWB model is coming to USA soon!

Simply charge while you do something else… shop/surf/venue/sight seeing/car park or even over night at camp spot… the list and opportunities are endless! It’s easy enough with the range on offer 👌

People really don't understand that you don't have to be near your EV when it charges smh

Portable power to use away from the van as well as additional power when used inside 👍

There's the option to have one 300W AC connection in the passenger seat. Almost nothing. Also, there is no camping mode for heating.

How is 6 charges much? Such a distance would normally take at least two days in an ICE vehicle. You can charge it overnight after the first day and obviously you need breaks anyway. Perfect moments for a charging stop. Also: EV batteries failing is very rare.

We've been sleeping in our non pop-top Expert for over 20 years. Hundreds of nights. Standing up is nice, but you get used to it. Not having one saves several grand on the conversion, makes it much easier to DIY, and the van stealthier. We've not really missed it, although now we're over 50 we might get one on the next van. I've not seen one available for the buzz yet.

@@xxwookey me and my wife were using our converted t4 caravelle without a pop top for a few years. It totally transformed the space after I fitted a westfallia pop top with roof bed for our kids. Also it can be registered and insured as a motorhome home which lowers the insurance and is completely covered. But interesting to see these new vehicles as they evolve.

We just did a 7000km road trip thru east europe. To the black sea, down to greek and back along the coast to italy and over the alps to switzerland. We had a blast. So go for it!!

Why would that be a joke?! 300 km is perfectly fine. With fast charging you can easily cover many hundreds of kilometers more in a day.

@@Simon-dm8zv I won weekend with this car on charity auction. I usually never read manuals but was really interested in this car so i read everything what manufacturer gave. Apparently it is not recomended by VW to charge above 80% or use electricity below 20% of batteries capacity. That leave you with 60%. When you drive 140km/h (cant faster because VW limited his car) battery will be enough to make 200-250km max. Then you need to spend 1-2hrs to charge it. This "15 min charrging" is a biggest lie. First you need powerfull charger (there are is only one near me but limited to TESLA cars only). Then weather need to be perfect. Something between 22C and 25C. If you want to charge to 100 % then you need extra hour to charge 80 to 100%. In my daily car it is not a problem for me to do 1000-1500km in one day. With this car i needed only 6 hours for charging when i wanted to do 850km. I prefer to spend time before my travel to check on maps places to visit or to eat then to calculate perfect route between chargers. And pray for a working one everytime. would buy this car with petrol engine. Or with 2x bigger range.

@@Syrinxification Obviously charging to 100% sometimes is no problem at all. So you make sure the car is charged overnight to 100% the morning you start your road trip. Driving 140 km/h in a van is too fast. I wouldn't go over 120. So that already changes the situation a lot. And of course you need to live in a part of the world where there are a lot of fast chargers (the vast majority of western Europe is fine) and then you will see that 1 to 2 hour charging time is vastly exaggerated. You can easily cover 1000 km in 10,5 hours of driving and charging - as Bjørn Nyland proved on his RUclips Channel.

@@Syrinxification some misconceptions there, but that's fine as you don't own an EV. I have an ID3, so can help. VW is saying not to leave the car above 80 or below 20 for a prolonged time. It's perfectly fine to charge to 100% if you then drive the car the next day. I also often drive to less than 10% when arriving at a charger, as charging at low percentage is much faster. A typical charging stop is 30 min (to a bit over 80%), you are right though that charging from 80-100% is extremely sloooow. I only charge to 85% and then drive away and make another charging stop, that is much faster than charging to 100% in one go. yes, range is not the same as with a Diesel car and weather affects that even further. So you probably drive for 3 hours before taking a 30 min break (tacho breaks for HGV drivers are after 4.5 hours, so this is not that far off).

@@POTThaesslich Exactly - we just have to get used to travelling a little more slowly. It's not a bad thing. I've been used to 650 mile range (1000km) on current van, but we all have to go electric fairly soon so I'll just have to adjust.

The passenger van at 0:30 has the factory fitted windows. However this option doesn't have the flat floor needed for the camper conversion.

Even with 1500 W charging would be terribly slow. Not worth the extra cost and weight.

@@Simon-dm8zv During a whole summer day this would ad 15 kWh. To me this is no joke...

@@thomasmargis9808 More like 5 kWh per day.

@@Simon-dm8zv If the panel is flat mounted I'm with you. But you can mount it on a flexible rig so that you can let it follow the sun.

Would you be able to share an example video of this setup, thanks.

The dry weight with final conversion was 2.5 tons

Our customers drove from Brighton to Scotland and back over 10 days in our Citroen E-Dispatch based campervan, which has a lower range than the Buzz. That journey was 1629 miles. It's possible, partly due to the high speed charging. You can charge the Buzz from 5-80% in 30 minutes. Also, based on early tests, the average efficiency of the Buzz with the conversion is 3.2 miles per kwh, 200 mile is the minimum I would expect.

You can perfectly tour with that Range. I did 2500km in a week with an 75kWh eVivaro. Now building my own E-expert camper. Great tourer.

Old comment I know, but I just came across it. From where I live, (Derbyshire,) a 200 mile range would mean I could visit every single national park in the UK (mainland,) and only ever have to stop for one charge at most en route. A central location will have it's perks when we go fully electrical. :P

It's already been tested, a real world test it did 230 miles on average.