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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 no doubt notice that we also express our views on matters far beyond our own product. The reason for this is the transition needed and to explain things to those who still hold a different view (drill baby drill). Enjoy reading:
This film clearly shows that electric vehicles (EV’s) pollute 90% less than fuel vehicles over the same distance travelled and are cheaper. It is what it is.
In 1965, it was openly advertised that SMOKING was healthy; even doctors recommended smoking. Now we know better – what about asbestos? The same. Fuel burning?
The damage to nature caused by human pollution is still stuck in the mindset of 1965: according to the fossil fuel lobby, things aren’t that bad…. (petrolheads anno 2026)
That’s what all those petrolheads are saying. But is that really the case, NO.
Dutch TNO has developed a laser technology for recycling solar panels. According to the research organisation, this technology enables solar panels to be dismantled efficiently and in an energy-efficient manner. This allows more than 99 per cent of the silver and high-purity silicon used to be recovered. (source: change.inc, April 2026)
Batteries are cut into small particles and placed in a 135-metre-long tank of slowly flowing liquid. By using magnetic waves in the tank, the different metals separate naturally, until they can be collected at the end with 98% purity. Both methods are scalable to industrial level. And here in Europe, we have all the raw materials from around the world right here at home. How wonderful is that, fuel lovers. (source: change.inc, November 2024)
But there are still things that many people do not realise. Did 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 are required per every litre of fuel. With this amount of power, an heavy 4×4 e-Rovers EV can travel at least 28 km/18 miles. Let that sink in for a moment. Doesn’t this mean that electric driving has already won the day? Does your fuel car drives 28km/18miles on one singel litre? NO.
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? To see it, you just need to read on. Take the bull by the horns.
So 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 electric energy consuming: each litre of fuel requires 6.000-watts of electric power (=6kW). See the diagram below.
Read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery
All those exhaust gases end up in the the thin skin around our Earth, the atmosphere above you, is only 200 km/125 miles high before space begins. (this distance you cycle in 6 hours).
More about internal resistance loss, which you also cannot see in the fuel engine and gearboxes to find at the bottom of this page.
That’s a whole bunch of pollution. And where we dump all these emissions day in day out, since the industrial revolution began 125 years ago. But Nature cannot handle this anymore, thats the problem.
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.
