VW ID Buzz Campervan Conversion VAN TOUR!!
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Love Campers unveil the ID Buzz Campervan conversion for our clients at Wild Drives.
Conversions of the VW ID Buzz from £17,000. For more photos and details on van converters Love Campers, please head to www.lovecampers.co.uk
You can hire this ACTUAL van from our friends at Wild Drives www.wildrives.co.uk
#vantour #vanlife #idbuzz - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Come to California and setup a branch here. Once VW starts selling ID Buzz in California, you might make a bundle.
Good craftsmanship is magic, isn't it. Great work!
👍🏼Can’t wait to see a
LWB version and ideally a pop top
Such a fab gorgeous camper van!! 👏🏼
Looks amazing!! Hopefully once the vehicle arrives in North America there will similar conversions.
Kitchen inside Van is a bad idea if you really love good food on the way. Smell and humidity stays inside the car. Campingboxes with exterior kitchen below the back door is a much better solution, we have one and its much better than our previous California setup. Furtermore, its removable so we can still drive with all seats in place when necessary (grand children 😀).
Would you be able to share an example video of this setup, thanks.
Very nice! one question though... Where do u got the Windows for the cut outs from?
This IS the Van that VW SHOOULD be selling -- lol :) This is awesome :)
Wow ! Great stuff. Will it be available in the Netherlands ?
How much heavy does this conversion add to the van? How much less range?
are those window panes custom made or is VW selling them?
Cool !!
Not enough interior height or length to the ID buzz to make a useful camper. As such this design is very compromised. Fridge on floor, no central dining table, only 2 belted seats, no grill or secondary hob. Feels like camper has gone backwards.
Why would you not use the campervan's battery. Isn't the whole point that you can power things from it and have a cooker and AC and all the things you need?
I am missing the small overlap crash test! Why?
And what did producing the van did for the environment?
Beautiful looking vehicle but I’m put off by the short distance before charging..would it require 6 charges between London and Madrid..also if the batteries on EV s fail,out,of warranty there would be a huge bill to,pay
How is 6 charges much? Such a distance would normally take at least two days in an ICE vehicle. You can charge it overnight after the first day and obviously you need breaks anyway. Perfect moments for a charging stop. Also: EV batteries failing is very rare.
Nice. Lwb would even be better.
What range and do you give locations of charging stations , would be interested in swapping my diesel out one day.
We just did a 7000km road trip thru east europe. To the black sea, down to greek and back along the coast to italy and over the alps to switzerland. We had a blast. So go for it!!
This small solar panel is redicoulus!!! Come on guys, you have a giant roof! Use this space! You can easyly install 1500W up there! And invent sth to charge the car with this power!
Even with 1500 W charging would be terribly slow. Not worth the extra cost and weight.
@@Simon-dm8zv During a whole summer day this would ad 15 kWh. To me this is no joke...
@@thomasmargis9808 More like 5 kWh per day.
@@Simon-dm8zv If the panel is flat mounted I'm with you. But you can mount it on a flexible rig so that you can let it follow the sun.
Can't deny the amazing looks of the ID Buzz, but am I missing something? The real world range of this will be less than 200 miles, significantly lower in the winter or when fully loaded. I know this through painful experience having owned 2 new EV's. I thought the whole point of a camper was to drive for miles into the wilderness, something which will be very challenging with charging infrastructure as it is in the UK?
Our customers drove from Brighton to Scotland and back over 10 days in our Citroen E-Dispatch based campervan, which has a lower range than the Buzz. That journey was 1629 miles. It's possible, partly due to the high speed charging.
You can charge the Buzz from 5-80% in 30 minutes.
Also, based on early tests, the average efficiency of the Buzz with the conversion is 3.2 miles per kwh, 200 mile is the minimum I would expect.
You can perfectly tour with that Range.
I did 2500km in a week with an 75kWh eVivaro.
Now building my own E-expert camper.
Great tourer.
Old comment I know, but I just came across it.
From where I live, (Derbyshire,) a 200 mile range would mean I could visit every single national park in the UK (mainland,) and only ever have to stop for one charge at most en route. A central location will have it's perks when we go fully electrical. :P
It's already been tested, a real world test it did 230 miles on average.
What’s the load capacity when it leaves the van converters?
The dry weight with final conversion was 2.5 tons
I like what you did and are very happy to see what is possible
but let me try to be as criticall as possible and maybe help you with some ideas.
- comparing it to the T2.... yikes, please don't, it is telling us it is not a T2 which makes us sad.
- a tiny solar panel of the roof....why so small when there is like 6 times as much space
- extra windows in the cargovan.....hmmmm I would prefer it to stay stealth and not have these windows, but when you want to maximise interior light then what is with the backdoor without windows? The image at 1:51 I really dislike. Windows don't seems to be at same height.
-Navy blue maybe should be a bit lighter to get more into beachlike atmosphere.
-The yellow this car comes in, you really have to be a fan..... :-)
The passenger van at 0:30 has the factory fitted windows. However this option doesn't have the flat floor needed for the camper conversion.
It's nice, but it's a day van unless it's got a pop top roof in my opinion.
We've been sleeping in our non pop-top Expert for over 20 years. Hundreds of nights. Standing up is nice, but you get used to it. Not having one saves several grand on the conversion, makes it much easier to DIY, and the van stealthier. We've not really missed it, although now we're over 50 we might get one on the next van. I've not seen one available for the buzz yet.
@@xxwookey me and my wife were using our converted t4 caravelle without a pop top for a few years. It totally transformed the space after I fitted a westfallia pop top with roof bed for our kids. Also it can be registered and insured as a motorhome home which lowers the insurance and is completely covered. But interesting to see these new vehicles as they evolve.
No pop up roof no use
Lol, has to feel pretty dumb to install a battery in an electric van. Shame they can't use the cars battery.
Camper with 300km range... joke?
Why would that be a joke?! 300 km is perfectly fine. With fast charging you can easily cover many hundreds of kilometers more in a day.
@@Simon-dm8zv I won weekend with this car on charity auction. I usually never read manuals but was really interested in this car so i read everything what manufacturer gave.
Apparently it is not recomended by VW to charge above 80% or use electricity below 20% of batteries capacity. That leave you with 60%.
When you drive 140km/h (cant faster because VW limited his car) battery will be enough to make 200-250km max. Then you need to spend 1-2hrs to charge it. This "15 min charrging" is a biggest lie. First you need powerfull charger (there are is only one near me but limited to TESLA cars only). Then weather need to be perfect. Something between 22C and 25C. If you want to charge to 100 % then you need extra hour to charge 80 to 100%.
In my daily car it is not a problem for me to do 1000-1500km in one day. With this car i needed only 6 hours for charging when i wanted to do 850km.
I prefer to spend time before my travel to check on maps places to visit or to eat then to calculate perfect route between chargers. And pray for a working one everytime.
would buy this car with petrol engine. Or with 2x bigger range.
@@Syrinxification Obviously charging to 100% sometimes is no problem at all. So you make sure the car is charged overnight to 100% the morning you start your road trip. Driving 140 km/h in a van is too fast. I wouldn't go over 120. So that already changes the situation a lot. And of course you need to live in a part of the world where there are a lot of fast chargers (the vast majority of western Europe is fine) and then you will see that 1 to 2 hour charging time is vastly exaggerated. You can easily cover 1000 km in 10,5 hours of driving and charging - as Bjørn Nyland proved on his CZcams Channel.
@@Syrinxification some misconceptions there, but that's fine as you don't own an EV. I have an ID3, so can help.
VW is saying not to leave the car above 80 or below 20 for a prolonged time. It's perfectly fine to charge to 100% if you then drive the car the next day. I also often drive to less than 10% when arriving at a charger, as charging at low percentage is much faster. A typical charging stop is 30 min (to a bit over 80%), you are right though that charging from 80-100% is extremely sloooow. I only charge to 85% and then drive away and make another charging stop, that is much faster than charging to 100% in one go.
yes, range is not the same as with a Diesel car and weather affects that even further. So you probably drive for 3 hours before taking a 30 min break (tacho breaks for HGV drivers are after 4.5 hours, so this is not that far off).
@@POTThaesslich Exactly - we just have to get used to travelling a little more slowly. It's not a bad thing. I've been used to 650 mile range (1000km) on current van, but we all have to go electric fairly soon so I'll just have to adjust.
Sooooo you've gutted the interior, removed the windows and put in new glass, cut out more material from the roof and and installed a solar panel. Gosh how 'sustainable'. LMFAO
Way too expensive!!!
Party Pooper
Pretty but completely unusable
EV range in this application is foolish
U ruined a perfect Buzz, now it's useless...
Sorry but junk on wheels.