This Cool Camper Van Has an Absolutely Game-Changing Feature

After a few days on the road or in the wild, few things sound more luxurious than a long, hot shower. Being able to soak under a blast of steamy H₂O and wash away dirt and grime and a hard day’s worth of stress is more than just a way to practice good hygiene; it helps us center ourselves, reconnect with ourselves, feel human.

But when you’re living out of a camper van, that luxury can seem far out of reach. Given their tidy confines, cramming even a water feature as small as a sink or toilet inside can be tricky. If you’re lucky, your build may include an outdoor shower situation in back — but even all the tents and barriers you can erect around it still make that a poor substitute for a true indoor shower situation.

So squeezing any sort of standing wet bath situation into a camper van is an impressive feat in and of itself. But a company out of Cincinnati has come up with a way to improve on the idea even further…

Remote Vans has created camper vans with a “cyber shower”

At first glance, Ohio-based Remote Vans’s Oasis, Friday and Aegis camper vans (first spotted by New Atlas) don’t seem all that different from the legions of similar units rolling around America’s roads. They’re all based on all-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz Sprinters with 144-inch wheelbases and high roofs, wear Front Runner roof racks and tail-mounted spare tires.

Climb inside, however, and you’ll notice, slotted between the dinette and the folding bed, something you don’t see on many camper vans: a shower. But it’s not just any shower.

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Remote Vans calls it a “Cyber Shower” — which feels like a fairly shameless attempt to capitalize on Cybertruck mania, considering that there doesn’t seem to be anything particularly related to computers or computer networks involved in it. What it actually is, in fact, is a recirculating shower.

The patented system, according to Remote Vans, does pretty much exactly what it sounds like: recirculates the water you’re using in order to provide a longer bathing experience than the 35-gallon fresh water tank would normally allow for. (The company’s website is short on details about how it goes about this, but presumably there’s some sort of filtration system to keep you from being sprayed with your own grime over and over again.)

According to the brand, the Cyber Shower delivers 10-plus minute hot showers using less than 3.5 gallons of water. When not in use, the shower curtain tucks away to open up the interior space; the shower area can also be used as a spot to utilize the van’s cartridge toilet, but we recommend leaving the curtain up for that.

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Remote Vans’s builds pack plenty of other handy features, too

A camper van doesn’t live or die on bath fittings alone, of course. To make the most of the interior volume, the dinette’s bench spins 90 degrees to face the side door when you’re sick of sitting at the table mounted behind the driver’s seat; it can also convert into a teeny bed for kids, if need be. Adults will prefer the queen-sized bed in back with its five-inch-thick mattress; it folds out of the walls in two even pieces, creating a big sleep space when deployed but providing plenty of room for bicycles or other gear when stowed away.

On the electronics and accessories side, there’s a 48-volt integrated air conditioner that can run for multiple nights off the 16.8-kWh battery pack, as well as a fan for when it’s not quite A/C toasty out. There’s also an 1800-watt induction cooktop, a 700-watt microwave and a 2.3-cubic-foot fridge/freezer combo, as well as standard Starlink internet access. A 190-watt solar panel helps charge the battery when you don’t want to plug into shore power or power up the alternator-generator.

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These camper vans are ready for some light off-roading, too

Remote Vans also made sure to outfit its trio of new camping rigs for going beyond the beaten path. Not only is all-wheel-drive standard, but so are BFGoodrich K02 all-terrain tires on custom wheels. Opt for the Oasis or Aegis models, and you’ll also score a long-range 45-gallon fuel tank, fender armor and a Van Compass off-road suspension; springing for the top-shelf Aegis also nets skid plates and a steel rear bumper.

All those features aren’t cheap, of course. The base-model Friday starts at $204,500, while the mid-level Oasis begins at $238,500 and the Aegis pricing kicks off at $254,500. Sure, you could build a Sprinter camper van for less if you did it piecemeal — but let’s face it, for many of us, the quicker and easier a van is built, the sooner we can be out exploring the world. Which is the whole damn point, right?

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