The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a commercial vehicle from Mercedes, designed specifically for business professionals. Since its debut in Europe in 1995, the Sprinter has been rated as the best commercial vehicle in Europe. The Sprinter boasts spacious dimensions, with a length, width, and height of 5945mm, 2020mm, and 2731mm, respectively, offering a full-size business activity space for 14, 17, to 20 seats.
In recent years, influenced by the wave of electric vehicles, many foreign car owners have successively started the oil-to-electric conversion of the Sprinter. Below is a conversion case of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter by client Zool from Cape Town, South Africa, in 2024, allowing us to take a look at the mystery of MPV model oil-to-electric conversion.
Parts Included in the Sprinter Conversion Kit
The Sprinter is equipped with a 2.2L 85kW diesel engine and a six-speed manual transmission from Daimler, and the vehicle is equipped with a four-wheel-drive system. Based on the above information, Zool chose a direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous motor with a rated power of 50kW and a peak power of 100kW, which can cover the peak power of the original diesel engine. Moreover, the maximum output torque can reach 700Nm, with a rated speed of 1700 RPM and a peak speed of 4100 RPM.
Obviously, this kind of direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous motor is not suitable for connecting to a gearbox with a large speed ratio. Therefore, considering the balance of speed and torque, Zool removed the manual transmission and connected the motor directly to the driveshaft. After all, there is a main reduction ratio of nearly 3:1 on the retained rear axle, which can increase the final wheel torque output to about 2100Nm, which is absolutely sufficient for the vehicle’s travel.
Before installing the new electric system, it is necessary to determine the parts that need to be removed, as follows:
- The old diesel engine
- The old transmission system and transfer case
- The power steering, brake pump, and air conditioning compressor driven by the fuel engine
On the other hand, when installing new electronic components, the first thing to consider is how to fix these parts. Unlike the original parts that have mounting interfaces matching the original vehicle chassis, new parts often require new brackets for support and fixing. So, after fully measuring the size (he had to calculate the size needed after all the accessories were installed, so that the subsequent stacking of parts would not be insufficient), Zool custom-made a parts bracket locally to support the installation of the new assembly.
This high efficiency intelligent charger is designed to meet the charging needs of power batteries for electric vehicles. This series of products adopt LLC resonance, active power factor correction, microcomputer measurement and control, full digital setting, full airtight waterproof and many other most advanced high frequency switching power supply technology and process design.
With: wide input voltage range, universal global voltage; The input power factor is up to 0.99, which significantly reduces the input current, thus reducing the cable heating. It can be safely used in the home distribution system. Low harmonic current, low interference to other electrical equipment ; Power switch to achieve a wide range of soft switch, high conversion efficiency and small electromagnetic interference, use time can save money; According to IP66 protection grade design, high waterproof performance; Small volume, light weight, quiet work, beautiful appearance, simple process, standardized production, high reliability, simple installation, operation, maintenance and other characteristics.
USES the microcomputer measurement and control technology, embedded CPU can accurately detect the various states of battery, the advanced hiNengDuo sections of charging model can prevent the battery overcharge, owe charging, minimizing rechargeable batteries overheating caused by water loss phenomenon, slow down the battery discharge phenomenon caused by the plate, prolong the service life of battery. When the battery is fully charged, the charger will stop automatically.
With the functions of temperature compensation, automatic shutdown at full charge, battery reverse connection protection, output short circuit protection, output overvoltage protection, ac input overvoltage protection, overheat protection and so on, it is safe and reliable to use.
In conventional fuel vehicles, the vacuum assisted brake pump uses the vacuum generated by the engine intake manifold to provide power.
In the process of changing from oil to electricity, the vehicle power system is changed from a fuel engine to an electric drive system, but the brake system still needs help to ensure that the driver can easily press the brake pedal. The vacuum assisted brake pump can maintain this assisted function.
Compatible with the original braking system
Oil to electric conversion kits usually want to use as much of the braking system components of the original vehicle as possible. As an important part of the original brake system, the vacuum booster brake pump can be well compatible with brake pipe, brake caliper and other components.
Lithium batteries are the core power components of electric vehicles.
Compared with traditional fuel engines, lithium batteries can provide a quieter and smoother power output for the vehicle. This is because the operation characteristics of the motor are not like the vibration and noise in the combustion and mechanical transmission process of the internal combustion engine, making the driving experience of electric vehicles more comfortable during the driving process.
Successful Conversion Cases We've Delivered for Our Clients：
Zool successfully obtained the first oil-to-electric Mercedes-Benz Sprinter in the local area. At the conventional rated speed of 70km/h, the electric vehicle can easily save 70% of the energy costs for every 50 or 100 kilometers.
However, on the road to commercialization, Zool frankly stated that he still needs to upgrade other aspects to improve competitiveness, such as upgrading the LCD touch screen instrument, upgrading the fast charging unit, increasing endurance, and copying the experience of this successful case to other vehicles in the Cape Town area. These are all promising and exciting processes.
Questions About Mercedes Benz Sprinter
Yes, we provide all electronic parts for conversion. We also provide wire diagram system, each part user manual, so you will have no obstacles for installation and connection of the system.
Yes, we provide motor spline coupler and adapter plate to install motor to original transmisison. But the original transmission’s clutch need to get removed. If you want to keep clutch, you need modify the spline coupler to clutch a bit. Because we do not have car in hand, so we bought a old transmission without clutch to make the coupler and adapter kit.
We provide two years for battery, and one year warranty for other parts. We only use top grade quality products. If any parts failure from manufacturing issues, we provide repair parts for replacement.
If we have stocks ready to go, the lead time is one weeek after order confirmed. if we have no stocks, lead time might be 4 weeks after order confirmed.
After you have discussed with sales manager all details of the order, he or she will make proforma invoice with all details and bank accounts for payment, normally payment is through bank to bank T/T. Other payment ways are also flexible to accept after discussion.
We only use top brand of cells in China, like EVE, like Gotion etc, most of the case we use EVE brand pure new and A grade cells to make pack. And in our battery pack we surely use real automobile grade BMS, not simple protection board.
We care about reputation more than our customers!
We are real manufacturer, not sales trade office/company, we started our motor production from 1995 in China. In conversion we now have more than 10 year experiencee. In the whole drive systems, we do not produce all parts, but motor we make, controller we provide CAN BUS and technical requests to our partner, same as lithium battery pack and wire hanress of the system, the design and CAN BUS are from us. other accessories like gas peda, meter etc we get from reliable partners.
Except motor and drive train solution, we also owns our own low speed electric vehicle assembly factory, its website/brand is www.gmtlsv.com
In short, we are EV expert with decades experience in China!
Yes, our key electronic components are with CE certificate for Europe markets, so at the moment, we ship to Europe like France, UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Turkey etc.
We also have ISO9001 quality manage certificate.
For our EV products, we also have WMI （World Manufacturer Identifier） certificate, each vehilce has its VIN number.
To some particular countries, they have requests in import or tax reduces policy such as for Africa countries and Middle East, COC or SABER might needed for import. For some countries, certificate of origin: FORM A, FORM E etc are requested. We all have experience to make for customers.
Yes, of course, our engineers who can speak English directly, video talk/email/Whatsapp they can communicate and serve customers without obstacles.
No matter before-sales or after sales, we all request in time response 24 hours and 7 days as long as we see the requests.
For necessary project, we can also send engineers to customers’ company for guide or training.
We also welcome customers to send engineers to us for onsite learning and training!
Yes, no problem, we support that. We hope customers can do longterm business so customization of his logo is OK
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