Dreaming of electric [s]sheep[/s] ... ducato, jumper, boxer x250 conversion in Germany

[steve]

Hi i am new to the forum, i bought a used Nissan env-200 40kwh and realy like hypermiling with it and not polluting nature when driving the dogs around.

I am looking into replacing the other car we own a ducato diesel x250 self build camper van. I would like to reuse our interior.

The ready made EV Versions of this car are very expensive and have often a small battery. And are very often to short (l4 not l5).

The Dream: Putting an leaf 110kw or 160kw into an ducato. Problem number one: The model year of an x250 (ducato, jumper, boxer) is 2006 an up -> Expensive EMV Testing to get road legal in Germany as far as i understand.

So i started looking around in Europe. There are early (slow) conversions by Micro-Vett (Gruau) ducatos in the Netherlands which are homologated by karabag in Germany. Problem number two: Getting the imported Vehicle street legal in Germany. Is there a loop hole? I think the same tests apply. Perhaps if you know of an identical vehicle that is already street legal? hard to find, but would this help?

Updating the Battery will be also a problem in Germany i guess, or is an EMV Test only needed if you change the motor/inverter?

Do you know of any x250 conversions?

Regards
Steve

[johu]

I got the 2004 Touran approved without EMV certificate. Here is the conversation I had with Klaus Baumeister from TÜV Hannover who is unfortunately retired now

Guten Tag Herr Baumeister,

wir hatten zuletzt vor 4 Jahren Kontakt, damals ging es um den Umbau eines VW Polo mit einem selbst entwickelten Wechselrichter. Hier war besonders EMV ein Thema. Der Polo fährt bis heute.

Nun möchte ich wieder einen Umbau machen, diesmal jedoch mit Serienkomponenten aus einem Nissan Leaf. D.h. Akkus, Motor und Elektronik werden übernommen Erleichtert dieses Vorgehen die Einzelabnahme? Oder genauer, muss ein so umgebautes Fahrzeug nochmal komplett auf EMV geprüft werden?

Vielen Dank im Voraus und viele Grüße
Johannes Hübner

Guten Tag Herr Hübner,

wenn nachweislich alle Komponenten übernommen werden, sind weitere praktische Prüfungen nicht erfoderlich.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Hannover

Just realized I never stated it's a post 2001 car but his answer also doesn't address this.