Race between e-NV200 and e-Crafter 

I can't explain why, but these races are always so interesting to watch. Even when it's about large vehicles like this that I would never own myself.

Man, your videos make me want to take a vacation to Norway.

Bjorn u do such an amazing job on these videos, driving,testing. You help the EV movement a lot!

e-Crafter 100Kwh battery for the win!

Wow, overheating at -10C, looks like not too much airflow is used for cooling

You won Bjorn, you carried twice as much air in your cargo hold as Paul, that means he has to do the trip twice. Well done Bjorn

These races are awesome, as you get to see a near direct comparison of the vehicles and what it would be like to road trip them. Good video Bjorn!

I learned so much about different EVs from watching your videos. The races are especially fun to watch :) Keep up the good work!

e-Crafter banana box test!

These are a lot of fun to watch. Especially with the editing and the opportunity to take a break for a while and come back. The eNV must be really noisy because Pawel isn't too quiet of a talker, but in the car, I could barely make out what he was saying.

Snow on the roof actually does a lot I think. I didn't clean off the leaf before and the range died on my right away!

Look on the bright side. Pawel could have had a great lead, if he hadn’t stopped to enjoy the scenery and video a friend going passing. Great race, thank you to both of you.

Thanks to your videos we learn alot about passive cooling.

Pawel's second win! He could have gone home, showered, have dinner, be with family, napped for 30 minutes and then meet Bjorn!

Bjorn: the rule is no rules My brain: the rule is *simple: you laugh you lose*

a bit off topic but … i'm watching an Asian/ Norwegian & a polish dude talking in English comparing a German & Japanese EV van .. isn't the world getting smaller

Bjorn says 'sheeet' and Pawel says 'pierdolić'. ha ha

Not sure how I missed this at the time - who would have thought a race between two vans would be this interesting!

When u draft u need to get really close almost so close its illegal in norway or u will get oposit reaction and consumpsion get higer

Another great race Bjorn. It is interesting to see how EVs compare. With these two however, I would propose a different type of race. Given that they are purposed as delivery vehicles, a race that involves amount of cargo delivered per km would be interesting. Just a thought. Keep up the great videos!

Hello! Excellent video! I would like to know how, roughly how many hours did it take for the Nissan e-NV200 to reach destination? Is the e-NV200 with the later 40 kWh battery or the 24 kWh version?

Another great race, well done guy’s 👏🏻👏🏻

Good video for looking at the vehicles separately otherwise, 2 different size vehicles? Next time a truck and a car lol. Anyway i love my NV200 - 7 seater, not to big not too small, very practical.

You would have to get a CCs/type 2 straight through extension cord to be certain of finding a charger you can fit in!!

Considering the e-NV200 has a semi-active cooler, couldn't there be a way to hack it and make it constantly cool the battery pack - perhaps even with a beefier fan than it already has? I mean, technically it must be possible, and if doable, the e-NV200 with some soundproofing will be a VERY capable EV! A pity Nissan can't just fulfill its potential from the getgo. :)

It would be awesome to watch a race between Ioniq vs Kona. Especially now on winter conditions with “cold gate” on Kona and the good charging speed at Ioniq at any conditions. But should go for some trip with Ionity chargers to make some difference for charging speed on those cars.

I love these races If someone would have told me the future when I was young, I wouldn't have believed I would enjoy watching this lol

The heat the batteries are generating should be harvested to power other devices. Exothermic crystallization type heat storage could be used to store the heat for use when battery actually needs heating!! It is mad that these vehicles are suffering charge throttling due to battery heating in sub zero conditions.

Can hardly hear pawel in car 😟

That was epic pawel pull on side and filming you passing

Thank you for the race can´t stop whatching

Well done both of you. Interesting

Bjørn, Hello from Russia!

B A N A N A B O X T E S T

Great race and very instructive as always! Lost count of the charge stops though, must be a record?

Brilliant Vid!!! nothing else to say

Hello Bjørn, can you tell us your opinion about the Sono Motors Sion EV with solar panels?

Do they not make charger extension leads for the crafter

Then its going to be rapidgates badly in summer

I would love to see a race between a Model X towing a trailer with the same cargo capacity as the e-Crafter and the e-Crafter. That might give a realistic comparison of vehicles one might choose as a delivery option.

if you throw snow over the cargo floor, it will act as insulation and keep the heat in the battery pack... not a good idea. isn't the cabin heater system using the heat of the battery's like a lot of electric cars do? that way you can crank up the heater and cool down the battery better / quicker. just like with the cooling system of a convection combustion engine. using the heater in summer to prevent overheating the engine...

If the price is right, both these vehicles could be very interesting for a, admittedly, small subset of professionals.

If I were to buy a van, that test unfortunately wouldn't persuade me to get one. That's not a working van man's day. 1. Parcel delivery. All day driving with lots and lots of stops. How much charging would you need to do and how much time would it take up out of your day?. How far out of the way would one need to go to find a charge point along with 1000s of other EV van drivers. If your finding charge points taken up in Norway where it's better, then we have no hope where I live in the UK.. 2. Last job I did driving a van from home to work would be any distance from 50 to 80 miles one way, could be out in the country at private houses with no customer at home all day (Building Conservatory Bases). How would you charge the vehicle up?. Then there would be many trips to the building merchant and concrete yard adding more milage, could be another 50 miles on top. Then another 50 to 80 miles back home. Would need over 200 miles battery charge minimum. There would be no time to waste charging the van up here and there all day long, wouldn't be practical at all. Sorry for the long post but vans are not there yet for the typical working van man's day.

Did you ever do the 1000km trip with e-NV200 40kWh in fair conditions like spring or fall?

I thought env200 had some active cooling.. even is such low temp the active cooling doesn't work that well?

If you don't think you need to try a loaded test, why not do a day of say 100 virtual drops? Plan out the exact same route for both vans, making sure you park at each destination, before setting off again, which would work in the Nissan's favour because it is smaller. You'd have to work out from the each van's load space that the Nissan would have to travel to a certain number of drops, when it returns to the start point to virtual reload to the remaining capacity of the VW. Then it would set off to the remaining destinations on its route. Eventually, both vehicles would return to their start points, having dropped the exact same loads to the same destinations. This would see whether the VW really is a better In-City despatch van, because it would be having to do less distance for the day's work. Just a thought. And no need for hundreds of banana boxes.

Bjorn can I ask you a question about the chargers. If someone pressed stop while you were charging would you be charged the full fee of around 80NOK ? Or can you not stop the charge just by pressing the button on the charger unit?

You should do it again but fill the back with things but make sure they both weigh the same

Hi Bjørn I really want to know if and how much the Maxus EV 80 is more compareable to the e-Crafter (at least the same size)! Please do some tests with the e-Crafter in fully load (max. weight) condition! And - if you want to - try to race the Maxus EV 80. I can get one from Bremen in Germany. Just give me a message and I will arrange it.

I am ok. This videos are amazing.

This is going to be fun

I see race, I like!! :)

Love you videos! Anyone could help me with finding the name of monitoring app mentioned for battery temp monitoring?

Why not have 2 batteries in parallel that can be charged independently (and faster) at same time?

BilboBjorn - There and back again! Try listening to Metal, I find my car goes faster when I do 😁

Bjorn you have not discussed cost of both vans! Yes the e-Crafter is better steering wheel, seats etc but a smaller battery pack but many £$NOK more! So need to work out the difference! Most businesses will choice value then cargo size.

Hi Super Video keep them coming

A model x with a trailer will get the job done faster 😂

Hey Bjorn you gonna go say hi to Elon today Feb. 11 he's in Norway. Maybe take the Van with you because he's in talks with Mercedes over the Sprinter van.

very entertaining nice video

Yaiks! so i\9hr to do 400km which in a van is roughly... what?, double of an ICE car? Vans really need faster charging and larger batteries, if this thing was full of goods weighing it down it probably would only have half the range. Have u guys done a range test (even if only inside city limits at low speeds) with van loaded yet Bjorn?

E-Crafter

How long would it take to move 10 tonnes of cargo between those locations in those two vans...? New race?

Wonder why the eCrafter only charges at some 38kW. Why not 45 before it rapidgates?

Is it possible to use an extention cable for that E-Crafter? The location of that charge port on the VW is just bad design

how many Kwh battery in e-crafter?

Retest the e-Crafter against the new Mercedes e-Sprinter?

Shiiiieeeet cars both of them. Would be interesting to see a full load race though even if Bjørn doesn’t believe it would affect the consumption so much. Proof it 😆.

The e-NV200 Rapidgates? Seriously? There goes the faith I had in the Leaf e-Plus's cooling system.

Pawel is way too quiet.

41:39 leaf spy bug?

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Rapidgate!!!

hahaha great vid!!

Don't worry it'll get warmer once all the arctic sea ice melts due to global warming!

15:14 KiloWhat

Sheeeeeeeit!

It is blue sky but you still uses windshieldwipers?😐

So if one takes frequent long trips..air cooled battery packs are a no no? If one is only charging at home..then air cooled doesn't matter? I do wonder degradation of these air cooled packs vs say a Tesla Model 3 pack... I believe liquid cooled should be in all battery packs but i guess the manafacturers no things i don;t.

Pawel needs to speaker louder please.

53 minutes. Bjørn that's way too long...

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