How much negativ enviromental impact has our live with and in our vehicle
1. The vehicle:
Often we are asked about the petrol milage of our vehicle.
- Yes this vehicle consumes approx. double as much as a normal camper.
- On the other site our philosophie is not to rush through the world but to spent long and enough time
in each countriy. And this means driving much less.
- The average German owning a car drives 12.660 km / year means a couple is driving average
25.320 km / year. Our limit is set to 40 km a day and this multiplies to 14.600 km / year.
- Additonally we will use the airplane much less knowing that this travelling form consumes extrem
high energy.
- By designing the vehicle we have put a lot of emphasis on energy - low and energy - friendly
technologies. Of course this has let to a larger vehicle size.
2. Enviromental friendly cabine:
Technical features:
- Energy type - mainly solar energy (self produced energy):
* 6 solar panels each having a power capacity of 120 Watts.
* Energy - storage: 6 batteries each having a capacity of 220 Ah at 12 Volt
Have enough energy storage capacity is the most important point to efficiently use the solar
power.
- Water: own water works by means of 3 filters and ultra-violette lamp. We can take water from
rivers and lakes and still use it for drinking perpose.
- Toilette: in comparison to a standard house flushing system at home we have very low water
consumption (due to the design of this system) - means less fresh water and less polution
- Heating: perfectly isolated cabine needs very low heating and cooling power.
- Hot water: mainly we use solar power to heat the water. We need much less water for dish
washing and for shower
- Fridge: by using a cooling box with good isolation the power consumption is half (coldness not
lost while opening the door of the fridge). Our 80 Ltr. cooling box consumes only 25 Ah / day at
12 Volt
3. To live enviromental friendly:
This is the most important part to preserve the enviroment!!!
You can do this also at home but "good old habbits" make chances so difficult.
- Water consumption:
* the average German consumes 128 liter drinking water per day.
* We needed in this vehicle until now 16,5 Liter per person per day. And this was not difficult.
And we produced our own drinking water quality.
- Energy consumption:
* For heating and hot water the average German 18.000 kWh / year and additionally a 2 person
house hold need 2.700 kWh / year for electricity.
* We live to 80% on solar power and we need additionally 1.500 kWh / year Diesel energy (for
heating and hot water). This also includes cooking - we use inductive cooking plates and we to
85% "at home" but powered with solar energy.
* As lights we use the most effizient LED lamps.
* the key to all this is the energy storage ability via batteries which allows us to use electricity for
4-5 days without sun shine.
We have installed a diesel generator set in case of bad weather but in the two years so fare we
used it only 6 hours in total.
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