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“We shouldn’t make the electricity grid more robust, but smarter”, says Professor Jan Rotmans, may 2026 (podcast Mastering Transitions van nlmtd en Change Inc)
You will noticed that e-Rovers also express views on matters far beyond our own product. The reason for this is that the transition is needed. We think it’s better to explain than to argue. And explain things to those who still hold a different view (drill baby drill). Be amazed reading this:
The film clearly shows the consequences and hidden costs involved in drilling for and processing fuel all the way to your petrol station. Did you know that? Electric driving takes much better care of your wallet as bonus. (total cost of ownership TCO).
Being cheaper per km/mile has another advantage: the cost of the conversion set is returned within a few years. And you will continue to benefit in the years that follow, even if you sell the car later on, as the car’s value will have increased. Yes we’re Dutch.
It’s similar to insulating your home, which will reduce your heating bills for decades to come. With the lower monthly costs, you can finance the conversion, and there is often additional support available from your country. We have provided some sample calculations on the website.
But this page has been created to respond to all those who deny climate change. Nature is not doing well.
In 1965, it was openly advertised that SMOKING was healthy; even doctors recommended smoking. They openly advise people to smoke. What about asbestos? We now know that’s both kills you.
Back in 1966, it wasn’t a big deal. Now, in 2026, only 60 years later, we know better. It’ll kills you. In 2086, also 60 years from now, we’ll fear the same thing: nature survives; humans do not. It’s not a rocket science: research, interpreting figures, looking into the future.
Of course, over millions of years, the world has already experienced various major climate changes. But that is not the point; nature can cope with this. HOWEVER, what many people do NOT realise is that since 1880, the start of industrialisation, there has been a massive polluting acceleration, with a second acceleration after 1970 and a third after 2004. Nature cannot cope with that. That is the crux of the matter.
The speed at which pollution is spreading is the cause for concern. Global warming causes ice to melt and sea levels to rise. Warmer water has a greater volume than cold water, leading to a further rise in sea levels. It’s about time that climate deniers start to take this in mind. “The ozone hole – it’s gone, hasn’t it? So global warming will sort itself out, mate”. You hear and read that all the time (social media). That is what they believe. And they take the plane to Spain…..
The ozone hole. It was very serious, but thanks to swift action (those gases in aerosol cans were banned very quickly), nature itself repaired the damage caused by humans within 25 years. Bear this in mind: humans changed the harmful gas, nature repaired the damage. That is exactly what we need to do: change behavior. This is our short version, to give the sceptics something to think about. Yet another bit of nonsense about the bad solar panels and batteries, they are the new asbestos…
Dutch TNO has developed a laser technology for recycling solar panels. This technology enables solar panels to be dismantled efficiently and at an energy-efficient manner. This allows more than 97 per cent of the silver and high-purity silicon used to be recovered. (source: change.inc, April 2026). Chopped into small pieces as a first step .
Batteries are cut also into small pieces and thrown into a bath, a 135-metre-long tank of slowly flowing (water based) liquid. By using magnetic waves in the tank, the different metals separate naturally, until they can be collected at the end with 97% purity. Both methods are scalable to industrial level. The filtered water is back to the tank, and unusable scraps are turned into eco-building blocks. An additional benefit is that we can then re-use all those circular materials to make new solar panels and batteries. Which we shouldn’t have to buy from China again. If we use less oil, we will be less dependent on the Strait of Hormuz or other problems that may arise as a result of our dependence on others. Have you ever thought about this? (source: change.inc, November 2024)
That very slow process is called transition. It doesn’t have to happen tomorrow, but it does have to happen within 30 years. Change.
Important: we always cite/quote the source of information. This is not a matter of opinion; these are studies that have been carried out. Take a look at IPCC.CH for these studies.
There are still things that many people do not realise. Do you know that we first need to generate electricity in order to operate an oil refinery? Research carried out in the UK has shown that 6,000 watts electricity is used per every litre of fuel. And 27.000 watts per gallon. Let that sink in for a moment. Doesn’t this mean that electric driving has already won the day? Here’s why:
Electric car batteries still performing remarkably well after 160,000 km/100.000miles.
The performance of electric car batteries remains at a very high level for a remarkably long time, concludes leasing and mobility company Arval. The subsidiary of the French bank BNP Paribas has conducted research into 24,000 electric cars, nearly 11,000 of which are in the Netherlands. These are models that have been resold in recent years following a lease period.
For older EVs with 160.000km/100.000miles on the clock, battery health averages above 90%. The performance trend is fairly predictable: after a slight degradation in the initial period, capacity decreases by an average of 1 per cent per 25,000km/15,500miles. (You can now work out for yourself how long they will last up to 65% capacity).
In the Netherlands, we call this “the elephant in the room that no one wants to see”. You’d rather be blind than see that big elephant. Then it’s not there, right? Just read on. Take the bull by the horns, climate change deniers! You don’t have to stay nice just to sell your product, do you? It’s all about understanding what’s actually going on – the elephant!
With lithium batteries, we can use up to 65% of their capacity in the electric car. After that, they can serve as storage for your solar-generated electricity at home; there are already companies using second-hand batteries for this purpose on a large scale. That puts an end to the argument put forward by petrolheads. The intermediate stage is bi-directional, connecting the house to the car and vice versa. And if the battery drops below 65%, you’ll be able to buy better batteries at a lower price then for your EV.
Just one more thing: that 65% doesn’t mean the power’s gone – no, the battery has become slower, but the measurement time hasn’t. It may seem less, but it isn’t that bad…
Fuel doesn’t grow on trees. First, pump it up from deep underground. Then if we look into the necessary proces of refining closely, refining is heating, pumping, filtering, distilling, purifying, heating- and distilling again etcetera. Roughly speaking it’s a big electric energy intensive process: each litre of fuel produced requires 6.000-watts of electric power (=6kW). Each gallon of fuel requires 27.000-watts of electric power (=27kW). (4,45 litres is 1 UK gallon.) Scary to hear, no?
Nobody’s told you that, have they? Figures that have been kept under wraps.
How far can an electric car go on that 6kW? Now we’re getting somewhere.
6kW=33km electric driving using the electricity required to produce 1 litre ,
27kW=23 miles electric driving using the electricity required to produce 1 gallon. BAM
(above figures for a VW e-buzz. Due to the 4 wheel drive and with the aerodynamics of a bungalow, e-Rovers have a 10 per cent shorter range, still 30km and 20,5 miles) e-buzz uses 18kW/100km/60miles WLTP, we do 20kW)
Read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery
So that’s just another myth. All those collective polluting gases end up in the the thin skin around our Earth, the atmosphere above you, that is only 200 km/125 miles high before space begins.
This distance you cycle on a bike in 6 hours. … if you’re fit in 5 hours or less!
6 or 5 hours cycling for that distance? That’s not much. That shocks me. Us too.
That’s a whole bunch of pollutionin a thin layer. And there is exactly where we dump all these emissions day in day out, since the industrial revolution began 145 years ago. But Nature cannot handle this anymore, thats the problem, it’s going too fast….. Thats the crux.
Can you trust data? Not on social media. People talk nonsens more and more. We cannot explain it any more clearly than the image below.
Check these start to read : after research by universities around the world since 1965, all new data is double-checked, peer-viewed and published worldwide. So you can thrust these. All these studies are ranked by the United Nations called the IPCC Panel. Get a look:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/
https://www.copernicus.eu/en collects data too, check it. Do not believe the pic below.
Where to use hydrogen? Where green hydrogen (H2) was presented in 2015 as a sustainable solution for all sectors – from fuel for passenger cars to heating homes – it is becoming increasingly clear, only in heavy industry where the energy carrier can make a difference. For example, as fuel for heavy road transport, sea shipping or in heavy industrial processes such as the production of steel, fertiliser and basic chemical elements. It’s no longer seen as a fuel for cars. The battery won that battle years ago.
To explain this simply, you could approach it this way: to make hydrogen (electrolise using green electricity wind/solar), about 50% energy is lost in this process. Hardly anyone knows that, its not told to you in papars, but check it, look it up. We’d be better off feeding that lost 50% of electricity back into the grid to heat homes or charge your EV, for example. With a bidirectional connection, you can also link your car to your home. That means we’ll need even fewer grid upgrades…
Metaphor told by e-Rovers to inderstand this hydrogen-route more clear:
“You buy 1 whole loaf of bread at the bakery. At the bakery shop, you take half of the bread out of the bag and throw it in the bin before leaving the shop”. That’s the hydrogen dream …
Barbara Baarsma (PwC) points to move to circular business models, focusing on making products last as long as possible, repairing and re-using or recycling. (bron Change.inc may25). “We want the same thing – a sustainable society with as much prosperity for as many people as possible. Then we need to use the stuff we mine from the Earth economical. Re-use is the best answer and be more circular”.
Launches its own battery factory through subsidiary PowerCo: . There is a lot of lithium in the groundwater at a depth of 400 metres beneath the German Ruhr area. The heat that comes with it is used to heat thousands of homes. So there is no need for Chinese batteries, and e-Rovers also use batteries that come from data centres and hospitals (NoWoS). These have to be replaced after five years. They are still 98 to 102% effective and cost a quarter of the price of new batteries. (according to Der Spiegel, dec2025/Change.inc)
Every 4-stroke combustion engine has only 1 out of 4 working strokes. The other 3 strokes are to let new air in, get rid of the burnt fuel and 1 stroke to compress the new air. 3 power-consuming idle strokes for 1 working stroke. Of the potential power in fuel, 100%, only 35% comes out of the engine as power that propels the car forward. 65% is lost as heat, the 4-stroke process and internal resistance. The remaining 40% is lost in the transmission. This is already explained on the first page. So, in total, more than 70% of the energy contained in a fuel – the so-called calorific value – is lost.
An electric motor has an efficiency of 98% and a lithium battery of 94%. These batteries currently last for 5,000 cycles. That’s 365 cycles in a year, if you drive 400 km/250 miles every day with our kit.
We often hear that there are synthetic fuels that no longer cause pollution. Well, they still burn, but we’ll be putting them to a test below. People often forget that it takes a lot of energy to produce those synthetic fuels. Wouldn’t it be better to put that energy straight into a battery instead? Have a think about it over a beer.
If we ask anyone: how will we drive the car in 50 years, there is the unanimous answer: ELECTRIC. So the question is not, if we will drive electric, but when. This sentiment is called “transition” we read about everywere. This is an interesting fact for investors, the market is much larger than you initially thought.
Less clean than expected. Plug-in hybrid cars are popular, but in reality they emit more CO2 than official test results suggest. This is according to environmental organisation Transport & Environment, based on an analysis of data from the European Environment Agency (EEA).
That is why e-Rovers expects to convert the first hybrid 4x4s to 100% electric soon. Not only converting used 4×4 cars today, but also those that are yet to be built. We believe this is an interesting prospect for investors with a view. We say that on the first page also.
Synthetic fuel you put in 100% electricity (Kw) and get only 40% out to the road (to drive, effectively measured). 60% loss in transition. A fun miscalculation is that in making this fuel, co2 or carbon is used from the air. This is counted as profit. But after combustion in the engine, this comes back 1 to 1, plus the combustion in itself. Every combustion releases pollutants.
Then bio-algae oil? The idea of driving, sailing or flying on algae oil is not new. Oil company ExxonMobil rigged a veritable algae plan and for years invested millions in the alternative fuel. The program has since been discontinued. Algae requires a lot of light and nutrients to grow, which makes the production process expensive. It cannot compete with petroleum, which has a higher energy density and a lower price. In addition, the combustion involves the same, creating foul exhaust fumes. While it takes more energy to make algae than petroleum. A double-no, therefore. 85% loss in transition.
Yet we are making progress in being less polluting. Cleaning up cities go faster and faster and speeding up: 63 european cities refuse under euro6 all vehicles. A 260% growth in 3 years. London Lunaz, Amsterdam, PARIS: all ban the fuel cars.
SAF, sustainable aviation fuel, is a biofuel made from organic waste streams, mainly used cooking oil. Although burning it emits as many greenhouse gases as burning conventional kerosene, SAF is more sustainable over its entire life cycle. same for GTL and HVO.
Chemically processed natural gas GTL and diesel oil based on cooking oil and bio-residue HVO. What is not mentioned is that all these types of ‘new’ fuels require a great deal of electricity to produce. With the same amount of electricity, every EV can travel at least three times further. Seems rather foolish to us.
e-Rovers participated as an initiator with Race-the-Green, a project to complete the Paris-Dakar rally on hydrogen and batteries using our powerful SRM motor. We participated with TU Delft with the H2 race car. The project was discontinued in 2022 due to the inability to find a sponsor. However, we do have the technical knowledge to convert every e-Rover to hydrogen batteries after 2030. OurH2- backbone is prepared.
Dutch Technical University: https://www.forze-delft.nl
“It comes as a shock to many people, but this has been going on for some time. The grid isn’t at full capacity. In fact, it’s like a traffic jam: too many people want to use electricity at peak times. Nor can you say that the Dutch road network is at full capacity. If I get in my car around lunchtime, I can drive to Amsterdam with ease, whereas in the morning I end up in a rush-hour traffic jam on that same stretch of road.”
How this has taken the piss out of you with all that waffle. Here at e-Rovers, we’re techies through and talk. A good example of how we think: “how long is this pencil? As a metaphor for a technical question. After 10 minutes, the team agrees on the length: just measure it and that’s the end of the discussion”. If only social media were that simple. They pee from left to right and from top to bottom, and above all, they type in a really anry and boring way. It would be laughable if it weren’t so bad. Yuck. This is a technical piece with a personal opinion…
EV (BEV) = (Battery) Electric Vehicle.
Hybrid = Vehicle that is powered by an fuel engine ICE and another source of power such as a electric engine/motor and battery or H2.
H2 = Hydrogen, another storage of energy, car runs electric (EV).
ICE = Internal Combustion Engine, burning fuel, (bio-) diesel, LPG/GPL gas, LNG, blue diesel etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine
OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer. (VW, Toyota, Land Rover etc)
JLR = Jaguar Land Rover, TATA India owned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover
Circulair jeans MUD: https://mudjeans.com/nl/pages/yousstex-international-mud-jeans
DeepL.com we use for translations, among help from friends and family. It rattles a bit, we work on this issue. Write this site in UK English, because 85% of those interested in 4×4 EV offroad cars live outside the Netherlands and drive their 4×4 daily. Our logo:
If you have reached the end of this page, congratulations!
We can tell you that we have had a lot of fun trying to explain things here. How bad things have become for humanity. And making money at the expense of that same humanity and nature. We only have one planet, and we live on it ourselves.
The moral of this story is: Even animals do not shit in their own nests. Humans do.
