Evolve is a concept vehicle, a demonstrator of the RV of the future, built on a platform that is available today(-ish), according to a report at AutoEvolution.com.
It’s the best of both worlds, delivering comfort, reliability, convenience, and sustainability in equal measure, with reduced running costs and advantages you won’t find in traditional motorhomes.
Evolve is, as you must’ve guessed, an electric vehicle. It’s dubbed “the next generation of electric motorhomes” and it’s based on the skateboard chassis from U.S. startup CityFreighter, making its physical debut at the ongoing 2026 Dusseldorf Caravan Salon.
Evolve is a demonstrator, so not a prototype of a motorhome that will go into production anytime soon. It was designed and built in partnership with Vöhringer, Ross Design, and Motive Development on the CityFreighter all-purpose chassis to show what can be achieved with said chassis in the RV sector.
The startup, founded by Michael Schoening and operating in Germany as well, designed it with planned compatibility with everything from delivery trucks to emergency response vehicles. A small-volume production series is expected for late 2028, but from there, RV specialists would have to step in to turn it into a motorhome like the Evolve.
And Evolve makes a very strong case for all-electric motorhomes, starting from real-life range.
A 128kWh battery pack, mounted centrally between the longitudinal frames to have solid side-crash protection and powering a 160kW motor, is good for over 400 km (248.5 miles) on a single charge. Moreover, CityFreighter insists that this is real-life range, as attested in real-life tests, no none of those simulations and estimations you get with EVs – and which usually don’t match reality.
The skateboard platform comes with 200kW fast charging, so you can go up to 80% battery in less than 20 minutes, with Schoening saying that the time could be cut down to some 10 minutes in a few years’ time at the rate technology is developing. The platform also comes with OTA (over-the-air) updates, AI integration, V2H (Vehicle to Home), and V2G (Vehicle to Grid), which would be “transferred” to the motorhome.
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