Picture “Save nature” Chris Burkard Photography.
CHANGE THE DRIVE, NOT THE CAR
We have been thinking about, since 2015, how to cleverly convert a fuel-powered 4×4 into an electric-powered 4×4. We have studied all the possibilities.
We came to the following solution: go build an electric motor into the existing front and rear axle. Forget the rest. Change the drive shaft only and not the whole 4×4 car.
And not only for Land Rovers, but for all brands … (we found out later: our electric drive motor can also be used for independent suspension cars. Then our motor is mounted on the chassis and the wheels are driven with drive shafts, exactly as it is done now).
That’s the basis of our developments, total costs for all this is 34K for 2 electric axles and between 5K and 19K for the batteries. Range 400km/250miles for 19K of battery power. That’s it, the rest of the 45 minutes reading time is about technical explanations, why electric and how we are going to supply you. We make the electric conversion work of your car (or truck) quick and easy.
Welcome to our Dutch team. We developed an electric “powerhouse” and bolted her direct in the drive shaft between the wheels (so not in the car). It’s a small and strong electric motor (low revolutions) we couldn’t find anywhere. We started its development in 2018. We developed this electro motor ourselves and we build them ourselves. We are independent of any manufacturer.
So a powerful electric motor with differential and high and low in the front and rear axles, giving you enough power to do what you’ve always done. Carefree & safe off-road driving for work (goverments) or pleasure. In nature.
Brief explanation how we do it
The story over a cup of coffee:
“You have 2 axles (drive shafts) located between the (front and rear) wheels underneath an off road car. The two old axles will be swapped for our two new electric axles. It fits your car, talormade. We put the electric motors into the centre of these axles. You understand that your internal combustion engine is no longer needed and will be removed. You are going to drive electric from now on. You can also get rid of your gearbox, transfer box and the old drive axles, including the old heavy differentials. You will spend more time dismantling, than fitting our set. Including bolting the strong battery boxe(s) safely between the chassis (no batteries in the car neither). The electric motor itself can also work with drive shafts, which modern 4×4 use. Then it is bolted to the car or truck:
The upper drawing is our electro motor in a rigid axle, the middle one is the same electro motor, but now attached to the chassis and driving the wheels with separate drive shafts, like all modern 4×4 cars today. The lower drawing is our electro motor, with the differential and the high and low gears also hidden in the body. The secret of our designers.
Your own garage or shop around the corner can do this job for you in 2 days, no matter where you live in the world. We ship the set in a strong box to you with a thorough installation manual. Aided by video explanations if needed. With this easy conversion job you make a huge saving on work hours to switch over, compared to others”.
The company e-Rovers combines innovation with environmental awareness through their self-developed universal electric axle(s), which integrates perfectly into existing powertrains of off road vehicles, not only Land Rovers.
There are a lot of 4×4 cars driven at governments today !
We also throw ourselves in particular at all government cars. We have a special page for them to get over the clean line. Customize your organization. We also lease and are manufacturer too (partnering). So in terms of warranty you will be fine. Better even, you are now clean as an example to the citizens around you.
Citizens pay taxes to pay the government, to work for the community. It’s that simple. Governments must now take a big step forward: lead by example in our opinion.
For less than 45K (euro/dollar/pound) you can make the 4×4 (pickup-) car you already have 100% electric. How nice is that? Call us. Saving on expensive fuel gives a nice payback time on the investment.
We are the only ones to have adopted this solution, why?
By far the highest efficiency between the battery and the road: 93%. We remove all the gears inbetween the fuel engine and the wheels, a big difference from others. Why?
Gears only take power from the battery for nothing. Many gears are spinning around, all consuming energy. We remove the fuel engine offcourse. It frees up a lot of space and weight, that we use for our e-drive now. Our SRM-electric motor has power from standstill. We have high- and low traction and lock-up too. So all those old gear-boxes and differentials are no longer needed. So melter, circular again. Our SRM electric engine is a beast, now tempered by today’s electronics.
We can drive an ample distance of 400 kilometres (250 miles) with a battery of 85kWh. We can incorporate all types of batteries. We are building a smart electric drive and not going into the battery business. e-Rovers, an open view to the future, you can read all about it on 5 pages.
Fuel burning is slowly coming to an end, whether we like it or not.
Today there are millions fuel 4×4 trucks driving around. Research shows 3 million off-road cars on license plates driving every day. A 4×4 truck pollutes six times more than a normal car. Unless the fuel propulsion can be replaced by electric. All fuel cars are going to disappear in time, including your beloved off-road vehicle. So take it to the scrapyard or convert it. We see no other options, including hydrogen or synthetic fuel. Those are totally in-efficient to make and to use in your fuel car as an alternative to batteries and drive electric . Maybe in 30 to 40 years this could be a solution. Read more about batteries further on.
Try to accept, you have to make a decision now, because continuing to drive on fuel is more expensive, dirtier, slower and you are shifting the problem. With any EV conversion you are immediately 2/3rds cheaper in TCO. Every day, every trip, year after year.
The good news is that converting to electric 4×4 driving is cheaper, than continue to drive on fuel.
The high conversion cost of 45.000 euro/dollar/pound you will get it back in 5 to 7 years. With a car life of another 25 years, you will be 20 to 18 years 2/3rd cheaper every mile. Every mile is cheaper than on fuel, so the investment comes back to the wallet a little every day. We are working (partnering) on a lease construction that you do not have to make the investment alone. Never buy fuel again, no more maintenance and often pay no road tax. Cheaper insurance. Car also as a home battery (solar home storage, bi-directionl use). There is the pay-back of the investment.
In the furture fuel cars are rapidly declining in value, while electric cars remain stable, and your electric 4×4 car or truck is becoming even more valuable, as conversions are going to become more expensive in the coming years.
The re-sale value of your electric 4×4 car also rise. We call this a smart Second Life car.
And also remember that the 4×4 car is not a general model, the reason why you ever bought it. Apart from people whose work often requires them to drive in heavy terrain.
Tailor-made for almost all types of off-road vehicles
Not only suitable for Land Rover’s or Toyota’s. Our set is for all existing 4×4 cars, from 1962 to today and also 4×4 cars still to be made in the future or not yet 100% electric (the mild-hybrids). We started this project electric in 2015 with own money to invest. Now we want to grow.
That is why it has become interesting for investors, because we can sell our sets still 30 year continuous from now. Check the new Land Rover Defender or Toyota Prado specs.
Note: even though we produce everything in the Netherlands, Europe, we’re Dutch, the site is in English because there is a growing interest in converting to 100% electric world wide. Should the English rattle a bit, we’ll do our best …
START PROJECT
The first ideas arose in our team in 2015 to run our own Land Rovers cleaner. No more little diesel particles spreading around and see the smoke in the mirror. Or gpl/gas fumes out of our Range Rovers V8’s. It must be an economically smart thing to do, so a reasonable pay back period.
All our lives (since 1977) we have driven Land Rovers and Range Rovers, so right away we found the name: e-Rovers
We tackle the conversion to electric rigorously, we do not simply bolt an electric motor to the gearbox. To explain this briefly, we do manage to install our strong electric motor in the same place as the old differential: inside the axle. It is then easier and stronger to remake and redesign the whole shaft/axel, with the electric motor already in it. Your truck has 2 axels, front and rear, so 2 electric axels in one set.
Just replacing the fuel engine for an electro engine bolts on the gearbox, we rejected pretty quickly, because it leaves all the gearboxes intact and is technically more complicated to do than the way we choose. The car becomes too heavy, there is not enough space and where are the batteries going to be stashed away? Because of all these difficulties, this “easy” conversion is much more expensive.
We can make this set hundreds of times and send it around the world. Only then you make a big difference to make the world cleaner. Everyone has to do their part. We can make any 4×4 car 90% cleaner, this includes making the battery and solar to make and store electric power. Here we calculate over a period of 20 years from the day of conversion.
So, at the end of 2016 we designed and built our own electric motor, because the electric motor was not made anywhere yet. An additional advantage of building the electric motor in the company: we are now independent of any manufacturer, availability or geo politics. Nice to know.
The axel set is produced entirely in the Netherlands and will be shipped worldwide. The converting is done at your local garage or shop. No high developing hours (costs) per truck is required and it takes very few man hours to install the set: 2 days maximum. (an experienced team of 2 does it in 1 day). Intersted as a garage or shop? Ask, we like having you “on board”.
This was a whole piece about how we do it and what we do and why. But how do we actually drive it? Driving our EV offroad car is fun, more torque, stronger roadholding, lower centre of gravity, faster and silent.
Clean with bonus: your 4×4 truck “feels” like it have 280 Horspower now.
Yes, finaly the convertion we wanted for ourself in 2015 is for sale today.
At the forefront
The Netherlands are one of the most densely populated areas in the world and below sea level. We have too many cars, cows, pigs, chickens, iron- and chemical plants and tulips. Perhaps we feel the need doing something about global warming a bit more, even though we are a very small country. The sea is comming up because of heating up the earth … We are going to produce and supply these sets world wide, because:
There is no Planet B …
FROM PETROLHEAD TO CLEANHEAD
The “transition” to a cleaner World, we believe, will take at least 25 years in time or more.
For almost all brands we supply the sets. Do not wait, act we believe.
Everyone views the climate through their own lens. Real denial no longer occurs, the division is in the solutions. quote NRC nov2024, Marcel aan de Brugh, drawing Oliver Heiligers.
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This is how our children later remember those dirty combustion engines grandpa used:
