Electric Mobility: design an alternative for burning fuel which is easily accessible to everyone.
e-Rovers is a small innovative Dutch company, operating at the intersection of sustainable mobility, smart engineering and supporter of the circular economy. The result is the 3-in-1 electric powerhouse. We developed and manufacture this in the Netherlands. Such a powerhouse was not available anywhere in the world, until now.
How did this happen, that is what this page is about.
Start
The company was founded as a small, dedicated R&D team of 4. Originated from off-road drivers who started mud driving as a hobby back in 1982 using Land Rovers 88, Defenders and Range Rovers V8.
We changed our views. After thorough research and market analysis during 2015, we looked to find a powerful electric motor for inside the axle(s), between the wheels. That seemed to us the smartest design to create. The rest of the powertrain could be discarded (removed) and sent for re-use elsewhere (melted). We mention this on the first page.
But, an electric motor for our plan, did not exist. The core business changed into the own development of a modular “retrofit” electric platform. For rugged offroad cars only, known as offroad workhorses (in USA called: trucks). You can see these workhorses on all pages.
Company today
The business today focus on easy electric conversion for everyone and maximise circular economies. So help the carbon reduction. And integrating our re-used batteries. We feel responsible for the generations after us.
History
We have been working in green industry developments for a long time. We have a strong focus on clean technologies, starting the company EcoEnGines bv. (Ltd) in 2005.
We have designed and build biofuel gensets (based on Fiat/Lancia/Iveco/FPT), developed hybrid-electric drives (for small cargo ships, waste collection service) for the canals in Amsterdam, hybrid water taxis in Venice, run on solar power and are 2/3rds cheaper than the diesel-powered ones in terms of TCO (total cost of ownership, costs per mile) as for Berlin, EV-hybrid-citybusses in the UK and also experimented with flywheel technology (to store energy without a battery). And the use of bio polyester and hemp reinforcements instead of glass and plastic back in 2007. Designing tiny houses using only organic waste materials. We stopped doing this because governments continued to build the old way.
Innitiator started this offroad Project Electric in 2015 with one question: “How would I convert my own V8 petrol Range Rover to a 100% electric Range Rover, without spending a lot of money?” To immediately head the joke about those Dutch people (we hate spending money).
The project name e-Rovers was found immediately.
The photograph was taken on Terschelling, an island in the north of the Netherlands bordering the North Sea. With that Range Rover V8 that started it all in 2012.
We have studied and debated every technical possibility, before the costley engineering started back in 2016. We went the hard way, the only solution the reach the highest return (max efficiency) from power in the battery to power on the road.
Team
We all have experience in technical development processes and product validation for 30 years plus. We are ambitious, collaborative, service-oriented and innovative and we think far outside the “box”.
All team members have experiences gained offroads, enduro, in yachting, hydraulics, general metal constructions, classic (racing) cars and developing hybride drives. And hybrids that uses a combination of different technologies for propulsion or drivelines. We have roughly added up 135 years knowledge and all team members completing many different projects. At the same time we all continued driving 4×4 off road and racing cars, towing boat-trailers, horse trailers and smelling mud driving around offroad.
Our team was therefore ideally suited to invent something.
OWNERSHIP
We believe in taking full ownership and responsibility in every aspect of our work. Our most remarkable achievements come from teams that embrace this mindset. The idea is to empower our people with the right conditions to own their projects and ultimately, drive success.
Oops and shock
When was the moment our team realised that things were going wrong?
The first reports came as early as 1982: Shell knew, BP knew, they all knew ? (Bilderberg conferences have been addressing major global issues since 1954, started in the Netherlands and this year in Stockholm)
Drill baby Drill, but around 2005, the first media came out that there had been reports (by Shell) since 1982 about how bad the pollution actually is. A scandal.
But there are more organisations to read: https://www.climatefiles.com/
“Until we stop burning fossil fuels, the climate will continue to warm and heat waves will become more frequent and intense. It’s as simple as that” (Frederieke Otto, climate scientist, april 2024).
‘The climate problem is well known; stop burning fossil fuels now it’s time for solutions,’ says Bernice Notenboom, who has crossed deserts, reached the South Pole on skis, climbed Mount Everest, and worked for NASA and ESA. (Dutch newspaper Trouw, 11 October 2025).
e-MARINE
We started back in 2005 designing a hybrid propulsion systems, primarily for ships. Our biofuel-hybride-electric drive is designed for commercial taxiboats (Venice, Berlin, Amsterdam etc).
It saves the user three-quarters of their annual fuel costs. The investment pays for itself within two years. We can still supply this, please enquire.
So the step to electric conversion for strong wild cars is not that big. The 4×4 market is very large, much larger than for ships. So we switched to offroad rugged cars.
Petrolheads
We used to be petrolheads too. The whole team. We dip into our own pockets. Here are some examples from the past. It is only fair to admit that we have also been huge polluters.
Rob Slotemaker racing his 550Hp Camaro V8 at the Zandvoort race track. The Dutch most famous racing driver, far ahead of Max Verstappen. I was racing myself and having fun in Alfa Romeo’s, FF1600, Oldsmobile V8 and Husqvarna enduro bikes during the 90ties. Speeding up wooden Hacker crafts V8 on lakes.
We loved Baby Bootlegger, originally used a 1.000 cubic-inch V-12 Lycoming aircraft WW1 engine, replaced by a water-cooled Hispano-Suiza V-8 aircraft converted to a marine engine, producing 300Hp. Designed by George Crouch in 1924, built by Henri Nevins. Won the Gold Cup in 1924 and 1925:
Watching Racing Wooden & Classic boats with exotic names such as Pardon Me, Thunderbird, El Lagarto, Bootlegger, Peerless, Dolphin, Kitty Hawk, Belle Isle Bear Cats, My Sweetie, among others. In the 1930’s, the celebrated boats were named “The Steinway of Runabouts”. After the war this continued:
“As the Scriptures said in the past, carry on until it lasts…” quote Guido Moroni, friend of Bruno Bonini and Achille Castoldi (check wikipedia). Just put a V12 Ferrari petrol engine in it and off you go!
Our team changed in 2005, we “killed” the petrolhead in our brain.
Read about our EcoEnGines solar electric NoNoX boat we designed and built in 2006 on the last page.
Fighting forest fires with diesel cars… how stupid is that? Cutting down forests in Brazil to plant soybeans. How stupid is that? This is how humans operate in 2025. Do something about it, today.
