Electric in-axel drivetrains

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e-Rovers has developed an electrically powered axle on its own – a front- and a rear axle – which can easily be swapped under any robust 4×4 vehicle or truck. A strong, safe and robust axel/shaft. For use in places where there are no roads or rough, bumpy and muddy roads. That means you no longer need the old drive. Polluting vehicles out, clean electric 4×4 vehicles in. For sale for around €35,000 ex tax.

For the quick reader, such as an investor(s), funding or bank, we have compiled a comprehensive list of e-Rovers USPs below. Everything at a glance. (Unique Selling Points)

Key factors to start

This is a growing market which we solve a problem for the customer. “We’d like to make the switch, but there aren’t any powerful 4×4 EVs on the market – so what then?” Customer problem is: driving another 600,000 km or 375,000 miles using polluting diesel (this is the technical lifespan of a rugged 4×4 car) or converting the 4×4 car into a clean electric vehicle? (EV) After the technical lifespan is ending, in the past this forced people to buy a whole new fuel drive system. Including the gearbox, transfer box and the two differentials, which are also worn out. Or switch to electric, the right moment to do.

That decision has to be made hundreds of times a year. Diesel fuels again? Now there’s a choice: buy e-Rovers axel e-sets.

Welcome to the website.

Here you can read about our unique solutions. We’ll explain why re-use your 4×4 its a better thing and save new materials. Change the drive only. That’s a nice way, and we’d be happy to tell you all about it. And you don’t need to buy any more fuel.

Our philosophy is to give any car a second life in an environmentally friendly way. Change the drive only. Keep the car. These older-model cars, a British equivalent of the Second World War derived (Willys) Jeep, gained a worldwide reputation for ruggedness and versatility. A new electric 4×4 can no longer offer you that.

Why aren’t they there yet?

An original equipment car manufacturer (OEM) is not selling these robust 4×4 EV’s. A truly robust electric 4×4 is still not being produced by OEM manufacturers. First reason: all current OEM electric car platforms are not suitable for using in a strong robust 4×4 EV. Second reason is for OEM’s that the market is too small to justify the investment. For the kind of use where Land Rovers, Jeeps and Toyota Land Cruisers have reigned supreme since 1965, they are the undisputed offroad champions.

This site is different

The explanation on the site is aimed particularly for non-technical people who still want to understand why. How we’re different and what it costs. Who’s going to do it. And whether you can buy a kit and fit it yourself, even in the remotest corner of the world. It’s all there, and more. Take your time, take it all in – there’s so much to read, we know that. Enjoy it.

It looks like a small market but it’s not

e-Rovers produce heavy-duty sets for strong, rugged, waterproof offroad 4x4s use. No sets for Porsches 911s or Bentleys. Nor for Volvo’s or Audi’s, BMW or Benz. Definitely not.

We produce for real strong 4x4s only, Used on a daily basis for nature conservation, beach rescues or driving where there are no roads at all. Alps, Pyrenees, all European countries and the Balkans and Turkey. In Africa, America, Chili etc. The territory of Land Rovers, Toyota Land Cruisers and Jeeps since 1965. Some want to keep a cult 4×4 car locally but still be able to drive into western towns. You know if it’s not Euro5 compliant (or Euro6 in the future), it’s forbidden soon.

Re-use your car

Those rugged 4×4 that already exist, but also those that will be manufactured over the next 20 years, whether they’re petrol or diesel engines or mild hybrids. Yes, the market is still growing for us. We cannot stress this enough to bankers, governments or investors.

For use on really rough and wet terrain is not possible for the modern semi-electric hybrids 4×4, which, because of too many sensors and computers, they can’t drive through a mud ditch or salty sea at all. Gremlins everywhere after a while. These new hybride-offroad cars have already been sent back from Africa after test-driving because they’re unreliable.

They break down with no mobile telephone signal, and surrounded by lions. Or hippos. We hear this sort of thing – to weak in harsh daily use. Not reliable at all. And it can’t be repaired locally because of all that electronics.

We’ve got this information from people who need to be able to rely on their 4x4s every day, but who want to move away from polluting fuel…

What makes us different

Our design was conceived right from the start in 2015 specifically for these harsh conditions. Once the technical lifespan of these fuel offroad cars had come to an end. Around 2,000 fuel 4x4s have already reached the end of their service life there alone in Africa. Change the drive, not the 4×4 car, our philosophy we are working towards.

There’s no rust in Africa, so all the 4x4s are in tip-top condition.

Graphics Doeke De Steur (Creative Media Network), based on an idea by Gijs de Jong, in response to numerous requests from Africa.

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A new concept

There are many different ways to convert and fit an electric motor in a robust 4×4 fuel car (called truck in USA). But, what’s the smartest way to do this? Simply switching from a fuel burning 4-stroke engine to an electric motor, just bolt one on, is the easiest way. But is it not the smartest way. They’re often not the cheapest way either: each car requires a lot of development work. Nothing is standard. e-Rovers get round that by coming up with something else.

And there’s too much resistance which continues to exist and stay in the driveline, the existing driveline remains there when replacing just the fuel-motor with an electric one. So you waste a great deal of range and power to the wheels. Lost in the old driveline for nothing. Costly in terms of energy use no matter the energy source. An original 4×4 driveline “eats power” from new. We use avoiding gear changes for extra range and power is not lost with us. The short-EV-range is the often-exaggerated in media, but nonetheless real, called the phenomenon of range anxiety.

Not with us. As a result, we also need fewer batteries; you can see the benefits of our concept becoming apparent.

Our entire electric drivetrain is housed in the yellow dot. There’s no resistance anywhere; power goes straight to the wheel.

Only for Land Rovers? No, our EV-set can be fitted to ALL 4×4 vehicles. And at your local garage around the corner. Just swap the 2 axles (front- and rear) and remove everything to do with the fuel and all the gearboxes, pic below. Recycle that iron – 475kg/992Lbs is a lot to get rid of. Our EV set including all batteries weighs less.

Two-thirds of the photo above shows the power-hungry gearboxes, in pairs, 30 or more gears grinding horspouwer away all day. That’s why we can travel 45% further on the same battery pack as others. Our 85 kW battery for minimum 400km/250 miles drive in a 2 tonnes offroad car shaped as a bungalow. The right-hand side of the pic is the 4-stroke engine, which utilises only 35% of the fuel and loses a great deal of heat.

The start

Question was in 2015, after a lovely off-road trip across the beaches of Terschelling in the Netherlands: “burning oil in a polluting car isn’t something we can carry on doing for much longer” we realised to our horror. But where to start? Our first meeting took place there.

e-Rovers was born

Our own 1998 V8 petrol Range Rover P38 is already half as polluting as a diesel; that’s the first we need to get rid of in terms of diesel pollution. We don’t do things by halves; we go all the way.

Why electric drving?

The essence of electric driving: you do not need gears at all. Plenty of power across the entire revolutions range. And then we have extra the heat loss in burning fuel in a 4-stroke engine. Heat for nothing. A cold running electric motor is better and saving energy. That burning heat won’t get you a single kilometre/mile extra.

e-Rovers solution

How can we connect the electric motor directly to the centre of all wheels in a way that allows to transmit the power directly? It is precisely here that we have developed something new. We placed our electric motor in the centre of the axle, it has two outputs – one for each wheel left & right. We have two axles, one in front- and one in rear. This mean two electric motors, and 4 outputs. So each output is mounted directly to the centre of each wheel, in a straight line. You can see it above, by the shaft and the yellow ball in the middle. That’s our entire drive system, and there are two of them (front & rear axel).

Result: more range on the same battery. But we’ve chosen the most difficult way to make this we soon found out. Where can we buy that electric motor?

Bloody hell, that one wasn’t for sale and hadn’t been developed anywhere in the world. But there are dozens of different electric motors on the market, aren’t there? Yes, but not the right one that’s suitable for fitting into a shaft – lightweight, compact, watertight, shock approved and powerful, with an exit on each side.

How do we sort this out?

We’re just started to design our own and produced 7 prototypes (Evo1 to Evo7) in time and started testing and testing again. We tried to break the e-set by applying too much force, vibration and subjecting it to jolts and so on. But it remained intact. After taking it apart, everything looked as good as new. That’s exactly how it should be.

Our entire electric drive system is safely housed within the yellow dot above, including high/low range and a differential. We developed a 3-in-1 electric drive system. Everything is contained within a single, robust, waterproof housing. New is the high/low system switches off in high range. The exact scope of work to convert from fuel to electric is described on the “Dealers page”step-by-step for you.

All branches rugged offroad cars (called truck in USA) we support, we only “adjust” the EV-axel slightly in our factory in the Netherlands to fit your specific 4×4. It’s not rocket science – just tweak the width a bit, change the fix slightly, or weld the shock absorber eyelet 3 cm further along. Which rim should go on it – 4-hole or 5-hole? A piece of cake.

A revelation for you: we supply an e-set for 4×4 cars that are already on the road, from 1965 to 2026, as the hybride Jeep above, but we’re also going to producee-sets in the future for all 4x4s yet to be built that will be fitted with a fuel combustion engine, or all mild-hybrids that are currently on the road, but which will eventually have to phase out the polluting internal combustion engines altogether and switch to 100% electric power with a battery (BEV). We’ve already mentioned this briefly.

The market for e-Rovers will therefore become considerably larger than is currently foreseeable. Good to know if you want to get involved and invest, or if you manage a national fund for public authorities, for example.

Development’s done – what’s the plan now?

Step #1 is to build a demonstration offroad vehicle and then get customers to register, pay a 10% deposit and agree on delivery times. Many people have come forward who want to drive an electric 4×4 and no longer want to drive diesel or petrol 4×4 cars. As you know, these are all being phased out.

We welcome around 5,000 visitors to our website every month, you are one of them, since the events in Hormuz and the wildfires everywhere, this figure has been rising dramatically, month after month.

We are ready to start production and are looking for the necessary funding and interested parties. Join us.

What we offer

We hope this explanation above is sufficient to start to find our USP below. (unique selling point). We offer: Swap & Charge & Go. That was our aim. And keep the cost of the set under €35.000.

This job is done at your local garage nearby we told above. You get plenty of space for all batteries, between the chassis underneath. That’s nice. Converting-EV an offroad car to electric driving in a week. Or even faster – in three days. All rigorous testing has been completed. Sets will be send to you world wide.

We are the only company in the world to manufacture this system for lighter off-road vehicles.

What problems are we solving?

We’ll come back to this here. Many of fuel-powered 4x4s are reaching the end of their useful life. We’re offering an easy way to switch in three days directly to an EV. It also saves on fuel costs straight away for the next 25 years. (1 to 7 litres, euro/dollar 1.50-2.25 per litre and driving 15,000km/9,375miles every year for the next 25 years…. On fuel?)

We are offering an alternative so that you do NOT have to burn fuel for another 25 years just to move forward. There are currently more than 3 million polluting 4x4s on the road worldwide. To scrap them all? Or re-use them on electric.

Governments

Investor or public join us in this clean-up effort. Yet governments work still needs to be carried out burning fuel. We’ll be returning to this governments group in detail later (why they do not change to EV4x4 faster). We want to plant a seed here…

Overpromise and underdeliver. Governments

Call us now and stop thinking in the old way. We’ll help you with anEV project. Get results.

Luck on our side

It later turned out that our e-axle sets will fit under any 4×4 vehicle with simple modifications only. So it’s not just made for Land Rovers, it’s tailor-made for all branches of rugged offroad cars. We can manufacture these e-axels in large batches at our factory in the Netherlands using industry-standard methods. To get the costs down for you.

Unique Selling Points e-Rovers e-axels (usp)

The electric conversion takes place in your own area; because any local garage can do it, it’s not much work (low labour) 3 days.
Our package costs €34,500, plus the cost of the battery: €4,000 for the small pack, up to €18,000 for the large packs, offering 400 km/250 miles of driving pleasure. We can use bi-directional charging (home to car and vice versa).
We ship the e- sets to you worldwide. You don’t need to bring your car to us, unlike with other companies, where you can leave your car for months to complete the conversion.
e-Rovers actually did set itself apart with unique & smart technology in order to avoid price competition. We have no rivals when it comes to the way we carry out electric conversions for rugged 4×4 cars/trucks – cheaply and quickly, worldwide selling, conversion support.
Driving an electric car is already more economical than driving a petrol car — but what if you could also charge that car using free electricity from your own roof? That’s where it really gets interesting. By combining solar panels with an electric car, you not only save on your energy bill, but you also drive in a completely carbon-neutral way. Bi-directional too.
You remove 450kg/992lbs from your 4×4 car and replace it with 380kg/873lbs of batteries including our two electric axels, tailormade. All including a LCD dash screen, converter and charger. We’ll remove the fuel engine and all the gearsboxes. With us, the battery has a much easier job…
We offer by far the most highly efficient and silent smooth-running 4×4 e-drive system in the world. (maximum efficiency 91%+). As a result, we use 45% fewer batteries as others also. So you spend less money on batteries. And also save a great deal in weight, which means your 4×4 car performs better on rough terrain. Batteries remain expensive and heavy.
And we re-use batteries from data centres and hospitals. (no mining for lithium and cobalt). A very high level of circularity as a result – saves lots new raw materials out of your sight, as iron, plastic etc for every new car to make.

Save time. After all, your 4×4 car is in front of you: made earlier, paid for and ready to change to an rugged EV so starting a second life clean. Avoid throwing away. Energy saved for making a new car is hte way to go: re-use what you have. Stop spilling.
The e-Rovers SRM-electric 3-in-1 motor is connected directly to the wheels by two short shafts; there’s no loss of power – because all internal resistance is gone. And yet a high-low gear system and a torsen differential per axle. As the good old days.
This is something to think about: e-Rovers can EV-convert any 4×4 vehicle, because our e-axel is very easy to adjust to your car, (in the factory) including the new fuel/hybride 4×4 cars yet to be built; our product will remain highly attractive for at least 20 years to come, if not longer. Why? Hybrids are an interim solution; they’ll have to become 100% EV later. You might think that only used 4x4s can be EV converted, but that’s not entirely true. The world market for new rugged 4×4 is set to be even bigger. Because 90% of those newies sold today and tomorrow are still dirty fuel-powered 4x4s. 100% electric cars will be the norm in the future. And there are still no indestructible 4×4 EVs on the market. We explained this.
There is a large replacement market awaiting us. Worldwide.
Bi-directional, 2-way DC charging/discharging in conjunction with your home. No need for a home battery. Saves a lot of money. This info is listed under Specs.
We keep 85+% of the car unchanged to avoid difficult MOT/TüV problems. An important consideration for us to switch the axles only to electric ones. Your vehicle registration document will show an ‘E’ instead of a ‘P’ or ‘D’ fuel code after EV-convertion e-Rovers.
The entire set is made in the Netherlands, Europe; e-Rovers is a factory, independent of the whims of other EV manufacturers. We do not use components from Tesla, Nissan Leaf, Chinese parts or similar stuff. We manufacture the electric motor/axels, converter and computer ourselves. We use existing European brands for charging. That’s certainly a relief in today’s world. We can also create jobs here and in other countries by carrying out local conversions (in local shops) using our stuff, wherever in the world. That opens up a wealth of opportunities for everyone and local investments to connect.
We’re looking ahead to scalability, sales strength, (sales) dependencies and opportunities in the value chain. We’re ticking all those boxes. We’re no longer burning money and are taking our time to look around for the right partner to start production. If it doesn’t work out here, we’ll look across the border. The development was funded using our own money. Shares are now on sale, for example, to get production off the ground.
We follow the new European law to re-cycle more. See graphics.
Convert the euro to your currency please.

These USP’s are important key points to think about. We go into detail elsewhere here on the website. You don’t need to struggle through the whole website to understand everything. After all, everyone from beginners to professional EV-converters visits us often, to return to raed more. If you’d like to understand all – it’s all there – do take your time to browse the site and spend relaxing time reading.

We’ve opted for this approach lots and lots of texts here to avoid having to answer the same questions time and time again. Gives us more time to work on production.

The Land Rover and the Jeep were the forerunners of the new all-terrain 4×4 vehicle. Toyota followed later with the LandCruiser. Land Rover was launched in 1949 with the Series I. The Jeep was an important military vehicle during the Second World War. LandCruiser since 1951.

INVESTERS information

As an investor, government or bank, you can now get involved in this green project to help save hundreds of thousands of 4x4s from the scrapyard but converting them into EVs. This also means avoid hundreds of thousands fewer new 4×4 cars will need to be manufactured (digging less new materials) and there are currently no genuine rugged EV 4x4s on the market – nor are any likely to appear.

We are classified as an impact business for the purposes of obtaining funding.

We are launching an alternativeand green upcycle- industry. The financial risks are quite low and once the first batch of 25 e-sets has been produced and sold we grow every year production. We have a list of over 75 interested buyers.

Recent weeks have made it very clear that it is not particularly wise to remain dependent on fossil fuels for transport and other sectors. We can hear all the EV drivers here laughing and saving loads of money every day. Driving an EV is so much cheaper and also why we re-use batteries. Yes we do, more to come.

What we feared on Terschelling

After driving on the beach at Terschelling in 2015, we looked ahead and saw this:.

This photo above will be taken in 2040 if we do not take action.. We’ll end up scrapping thousands of good Land Rovers and Toyoya Landcruisers if we do nothing, simply because they are too polluting for this world. Euro 3 to Euro 6 fuel burning vehicles will soon be banned. Or having reached the technical end of driving and stop running. Unless we could come up with a easy-to-swap electric solution.

This nightmare scenario is not quite there yet; the scrapyard photo above was taken with a touch of artistic ingenuity. But in time, we’ll see scrapyards full of 4×4 that are still in good working order. We’re already seeing photos like this popping up on forums. Why buy a new one, anyway? You have one. Do you ever think about that?

About the site

We’re writing this site in UK English; because nobody can read Dutch… If the text sounds a bit clunky, we’re working on it. You are welcome to immerse yourself in the world of electric conversions. It was more challenging than we anticipated in 2015. Feel free to skip the rest of reading if you’re in a hurry. The basics are above.

We’re sometimes asked whether we’re part of Greenpeace or Extinction Rebellion. We do sympathise with these movements that are standing up for ordinary people. Things can’t go on like this with all this pollution. And if we add the Hormuz and all that other war shit rubbish from around the world to the mix, the future doesn’t look too bright, does it?

Instead of just giving in, you could actually do something about it. Speed up the transition, for example, and never fly again, and eat far less meat. That’s what we do

Counting cookies

We are being found because demand for green to go is increasing. We now have more than 5,200 unique visitors every month on e-Rovers.org. In February, the figure was 1,350. On top of this, over 800 return each month to read more. It seems that the Strait of Hormuz and the recent tropical temperatures in Europe (Nepal and beyond) have gone a long way towards bringing the growing climate problem back to the forefront. But that doesn’t mean the problem has gone away. We have to act now.

There’s a lovely phenomenon called the frog: “The frog in the pan” symbolises hesitation about change. Look it up.

Start living a greener life today. Just do it.

Our electric motor and financing in general

Now, a bit about the technology. Our electric-axel invention couldn’t be made using off-the-shelf components we told you. There is no electric motor suitable for this purpose we discovered. There are hundreds of different electric motors on the market, but not a single one that can be fitted into the axles as we wanted. That was the first setback.

They simply didn’t exist. So we had to developed the e-axel electric system in-house and start drawing & assembling all parts for testing. Own money involved. Luckily, there are only 58 parts (!) in our e-motor, whereas a normal 4×4 car has thousands. Well, sometimes things go your way.

If you can produce those 58 parts thousands of times, the price drops well below that of a 4-stroke engine and gearboxes. That’s obvious, isn’t it? But producing the first batch is quite expensive. And we’ve run out of own money. But more importantly is, we’re no longer burning money. That means we can’t go bankrupt. We’re taking a step back and assessing our financial situation. We’re taking our time. If this sounds like you, come and have a coffee with us, as they say. You can also join via video call.

By coordinating the production in-house, we have become an independent manufacturer using our switched reluctance motor. (SRM). It works perfectly with our own dedicated converter and computer; it’s robustly built and, of course, shock- and waterproof; and we can handle the latest 800-volt systems. It’s a ready-to-use 3-in-1 powerhouse.

Our powerhouse will fit basicly into your old axle, was our initial idea in 2015, but it actually made more sense to make a new e-axel made from lighter and stronger recycled aluminium and fit the powerhouse in. That way, we could adapt everything at the factory for all 4×4 cars. And suddenly the global market becomes huge. A minor adjustment to the new axle was all that was needed to fit all 4×4 vehicles. Just swap the axles, charge and off you go Electric.

“Keep the car, just change only the old drivetrain” has become reality.

Public GOVERNMENTS, NGO’s

And other leaders in charge are all caught up in mission statements, values documents, purpose sessions. Blabla for years. Wasted years! The strange thing is that one government is banning another government from trying out (demo) or buying our e-axles. We’ll explain below how this is possible.

Since 2023 we often speak to public staff members who need to work in the countryside for the government(s). In a new Volvo or Audi EV 4×4 you can’t even fit a dead deer in the back or drive through a wet ditch. That used to be normal, didn’t it? Everyone member would love to go back to the Land Rover Defender or the wonderful Toyota Land Cruiser. But, fuel fumes and oil leaks are no longer an option in nature either…

A government we know even tested two electric UK Land Rovers (factory borrowed) from Solihull UK, the two LR pic above. The e-110’s were very expensive (€135,000 each). We offer you a much better deal. (Staatsbosbeheer, LR Solihull simply swapped the engine for an electric motor; all the gearboxes remained in place and the range was only 60 miles).

Solihull decided not to go ahead with the electric version, as they already knew that production of the Defender was due to cease shortly. And no EV-platform to use.

But outside the PR governments bubble to speak only green, do nothing, impatience is growing worldwide. Customers, children, many employees and investors are increasingly fed up with all that empty talk. e-Rovers deliver a 3/4rd cost cut (TCO) and 100% clean electric driving, re-using your 4×4 you have, using batteries from data- or hospitals as an option. And bi-directional charging (to your home). And this will significantly reduce the load on the local electricity grid. (TCO is total cost of ownership).

Which brands and models do we supply?

Below are all the models we can supply sets for electric conversion; there are even more brands featured throughout the site.

Dutch e-Rovers

We are a company today specialised in converting sturdy offroaders to Electric Vehices (EV). So only for robust and indestructible 4×4 vehicles. Daily used for demanding work in challenging terrain. Where there are often no roads at all.

We can convert all 4×4 cars. There are more than 3 million of them on the roads today worldwide and that number is growing every week by new sold fuel 4×4 cars or hybride. They new hybrids follow in 10 years because hybride is fuel fuming also: 80km/50miles on electric power and then 1 in 6 on fuel. Surely that’s not environmentally friendly?

Sustainable transition

MOT/TüV

We keep 85% of the car unchanged to avoid difficult MOT/TüV tests. An important consideration for the switch axles only to electric. Your vehicle registration document will show an ‘E’ instead of a ‘P’ or ‘D’ fuel code. It varies a bit from country to country, but it’s not rocket science to sort it out and get this done. Your car is now registered as having been converted to electric EV.

So we made such EV-convertion, with exactly the same solid foundation, but now with an electric drive. The only noticeable difference is that it runs quietly with zero emissions and costs three-quarters less per day.

Classic cult cars

Have always held a special place in people’s hearts. Now they can be made electric too.

Driving the Land Rover or Toyota pictured here are surely much more fun than a Tesla, isn’t it? Even if you’ve never given any thought to buying such a rugged, powerful car. The cult car and the conversion cost less than a Tesla or an e-Buzz. We even convert new Toyota Land Cruisers directly into 4×4 EVs. See the last page for examples and prices.

Make the world more circular

Land Rover Defender P400e plug-in fuel-hybrid we will convert 100% EV after 2030

We expect that hybrid 4x4s, such as the one pictured above, will still have to become 100% electric vehicles in 15 years’ time, because fuel in a hybrid will either be banned or so expensive that it will no longer be economically viable. Our slogan:

“CHANGE THE DRIVE, NOT THE CAR” The best way to stop polluting is to stop polluting!

Examples

If you don’t own a 4×4, there’s another option. You can buy a brand-new petrol-powered Toyota Land Cruiser and convert it to 100% electric straight away using our kit. That would set you back around €60,000 – the same price as a TeslaX or VW e-Buzz, but you’d get a powerful, rugged 4×4 that can handle anything. See the example above.

As a government body, you can order in batches of 50 Landcruisers from us, which brings the cost down significantly. And as a government body, you can save on VAT and BPM. Why not give it some thought? Think outside the box – come on. Funding is available for this from the EU. See the last page for examples and prices.

A strange observation emerged during government conversations:

“There are three major obstacles to change within government: a lack of direction and clarity, a lack of capacity, and a lack of motivation,” says Professor Karen Maas of the Impact Center Rotterdam. “As long as these issues are ignored, it will remain all talk and little action.” (Source: change.inc, 23 March 2026)

“Working with Rijkswaterstaat, Staatsbosbeheer, estate management, emergency services and others means working together with governments,” innitiator say. “So you’re dealing with a bureaucracy full of systems and processes. We entrepreneurs need to realise that.

For years, those government doors have been slamming shut in our faces. Over and over again, right up until last week… That has to change, and quickly.” As we’re no longer burning through money, we’ve got plenty of staying power.

We produce e-sets axels of all models listed; you’ll find them throughout the website

Going on safari or game-parks in Africa: if the car is breaking down, with lions and hippos all around. No modern new hybrid can do that safe because of all the sensors and computers in modern cars are not made for this tracks.

The old diesel offroad cars just kept on running. That’s no longer the case with today’s platform-based electric cars. They’re dangerous in this sort of environment. Please do give this some thought.

e-Rovers guarantee a reliable off-roader that will always bring you home. Your only concern is to keep an eye on the charge level. That’s all. And that was also the case with the fuel in the tank, wasn’t it?

PLUG-IN

We’d already suggested this. Africa is currently very enthusiastic about our approach to conversion. We are building a network in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Other countries will follow. Connect.

We offer in Africa a clean way to quickly convert old diesel 4×4 cars that are reaching the end of their technical lifetime into electric vehicles. There is plenty of sunshine and solar energy is already available. We are also happy to work with European solar manufacturers, such as Triple Solar here. We can supply the entire system ready to use. We take care of everything, as they say.

All these vehicles, as the safari Toyota below, can be converted locally. We ship the e-sets worldwide with instructions and video support when needed.

Batteries

No reliable EV (Electric Vehicle) without reliable batteries. So we investigated since 2017 all kinds of batteries. New ones, different brands, and re-used lithium (iron) batteries and even re-used from e-bicycles the last year. The cells are almost the same you know? We focus on these today. But the choice is yours.

Where are those batteries?

They fit under the 4×4 car, in the space where the 4-stroke engine and all the gearboxes used to be. They’ve all been removed, leaving you with plenty of space inside the car. We also think it’s much safer. So we have developed an one size (fits all) strong aluminium boxes in which the cells (packs) are arranged. This “standard” box fits under any rugged 4×4, inbetween the strong chassis, so you can choose one box or more, depending on your usage/range to drive daily. We can fit between one and five boxes in one car. We do pre-heat these box(es) in winter time when charging and bi-directional fixed to your house or the net.

These power-packs (boxes) are located in the same place where the three gearboxes and transfer case used to be. What we dismantled, including the engine, weighed minimal 450 kg/992Lbs. We thought, let’s get rid of it, useless ballast for an electric car. We want to use as little power as possible per 100km/60miles. We mentioned that in the first section.

The space to the road has even increased! Another advantage of removing the complete old drive system. And more 4×4 fun, because we have more torque-power, have become lighter and have more ground clearance. The maximum sideways angle of inclination has also increased.

If there is no rigid axle, we can also provide independently suspended drive with our e-drive with short drive shafts, as in all modern 4×4 cars. We can even provide two different types in one car (such as pick-up trucks: rigid back & independantly in front) as Toyota above and VW Amarok.

We want impact

For outbanned work, fire brigade, highway assistance, many authorities, rescue, hunters and beach lifeguards. And finally, for your horse-drawn trailers. As you are used to. Last page we do many roof-tents and offroad pictures all over the world. What we love to do. Below Defender 110 is driving in a (so called) game park in Kenia Africa:

Future as we see it

A circular world in progress. The e-Rovers philosophy: you save a lot of new digged materials by converting your 4×4 car that is parked outside, do not purchase new, re-use it.

It will be many years before manufacturers (OEM) can invest enough money to deliver a truly robust 100% electric vehicle. We don’t want to wait that long. Are you prepared to put up with pollution levels five times higher than New York’s every year? Upgrade your 4×4 this year and don’t put it off any longer. The market for this is simply too small to invest big; let’s face it.

We create a tailormade-set for all offroad cars/trucks that have their photo on the entire site and suddenly that market has become huge, you see? All existing 4x4s are being converted to EVs we call this IMPACT. Find out more about the new e-Rovers Toyota’s on the last page.

UK/German/Italian Grenadier uses BMW diesel engines, Italian axles and a gearboxes from ZF. The Ineos Grenadier is an off-road utility vehicle designed and produced by Ineos Automotive. It went into production in October 2022.

Thank you for reading the first page; we’ve added four more pages under the categories. The e-Rovers team.

Others

Various methods we have been seen all over. Many other electric 4×4 car converters use an ordinary electric motor; easy and cheap to buy, but not really suitable for electric powering or mounted inside the car-axel. Often not to placed something in the car, for example, quickly grabbed at the gearbox. Keep the old drivetrain intact, carry along many gears. These easy to buy e-motors are widely used in industry; for dollies, or conveyor belts in a hall, for a lift in a building … or they install old Tesla drives for example or the Chinese stuff.

All these electric motors rev (revolutions) much too high to drive the large offroader wheels 1 to 1 and need the many gears to reduce this. Eat power away for nothing. Or these e-motors are just to heavy, to big, not watertight etc. Or others build in-wheel-motors and have to develop the entire suspension, shock absorbers and brakes from scratch. That costs a fortune and it is impossible to deliver 250 or more per year. Nice but no impact.

At the forefront

Why Dutch? The Netherlands in Europe are one of the most densely populated areas in the world and below sea level in central Europe. 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. And we are allready below sea-level. Our motivation.

Here is a sneak preview of what we can do

There are still hundreds brandnew fuel Toyota Landcruisers (Euro3) available for sale, which can be converted by us. Government: for less than the cost of a new fuel-powered 4×4 you are considering purchasing an electric one. Five electric Toyota EV cars for the price of three diesel cars (same investment). Do you know that? Strive for impact!

There is no Planet B … It’s in the human’s hands now

From the editors

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