About

Why Raeda

A raeda (RYE-dah) was the Roman travelling carriage: four wheels, room for people and their baggage, built for long roads. The Romans took the word from the Gauls.

A van conversion is the same idea two thousand years on: a vehicle fitted out to live in and to carry everything you need on a long road.

Raeda began as a tool for one build. Planning a conversion meant a spreadsheet for the budget, sketches for the layout, and notes from videos and forum threads for the wiring, and none of them knew about the others. Add a fridge, and the battery, the weight, the budget and the build order all change. The spreadsheet only knew the price.

So Raeda puts the van in the middle. You place each component in a 3D model of your van, and the power, water, weight, budget and tasks follow from what you placed.