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Nissan's Mobile Workshop Van for Woodworking Pros, with Solar Charging for Power Tools

It stores both tools and energy

By Rain Noe - January 24, 2019

in Cars | Tools & Craft

Nissan's creatives have been busy. In addition to their crazy snowgoing Altima from Canada, they've turned an NV300 into a workshop on wheels.

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Conceived of as "a mobile workshop for creative woodworking professionals," Nissan produced the vehicle in collaboration with UK-based design/build firm Studio Hardie.

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The vehicle is kitted out with portable worksurfaces and tool storage, as well as a killer feature: Roof-mounted solar panels hooked up to their Energy ROAM portable powerpacks, created from recycled Nissan Leaf batteries. With the ROAM system in place, power tools can be readily used and recharged, even in the middle of nowhere.

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Here's a walkthrough featuring studio principal William Hardie:

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Peter Carrasquillo

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Extremely fun idea, but any "woodworking pro" that would go so far as to buy a fully outfitted van would be, by nature, incredibly picky about layout and space usage. The layout looks great in photos, but In practice pro carpenter vans and trailers are WAY more utilitarian...and I think more interesting.

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Brian Webster

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Growing trend, High demand from clients for mobile service.
Good show Nissan...

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David Palmer

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Does anyone have insight into how the bent edges of their boxes were made? I'm assuming they kerf-bent it but the pictures aren't a high enough resolution for me to tell for sure.

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Cliff Baldwin

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I want a ROAM - keep the truck.

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Steve Caruso

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I would live in this

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