Noovo Vans for a Comfortable Life Traveling + Working with a Modern Starlink RV-- CEO Paul Aubert

I'm here with Paul Oar CEO of nvo Vans and he's going to discuss a little bit about custom vans and what they do and Paul so tell me about the product that you guys are creating so the the thing that we have created in three years now is that we want to create a home and office on Wheels we want to disrupt the RV Market what people are looking for recreational use for one two two nights we want to bring all the new Comfort technology and connectivity in order for people who want to live longterm long-term travel on in the road so our customers is going to be digital Nomads travel nurses sales reps um we have influencers that want to work on on the road but not at any cost they want to be able to leave work and and have fun on a comfortable van that they don't find on recreational vehicles because they are in plastic they are not very good or if they are comfortable they are totally out of the price and so we want to bring on the on the market home and office and wheels for people who want to be able to work from anywhere and that come from after the covid the combination of two factors one is the working remotely become standard people could work from anywhere they could work from home but they didn't have the connectivity and then stall link stall link arrived just at the good moment where you could have like satellite Wi-Fi for an affordable price and you can work from anywhere so we do have customers working from yuse from yellow stones and they are working it's their they're office they're in the van but they need something in the van that's going to match what they have in the in their office so they need comfortable they need like enough energy so they don't want to have a generator running all day long to have energy they don't want to have propane so we bring all the new technologies inside the van and we can see that nobody in the market is doing what we're doing now do you have battery sources for the power in the van yeah so we have like lithium batteries we go up to 1300 amp hours batteries so that's I don't I don't even know if someone is doing this amount of batteries in the in the industry because we want the the our customers to not think about the the the energy we like in France you know when when I was younger the the my parents when I didn't turn off the light they told me we're not in versailes so turn off the light then I said to the customers in the van you can be in verside turn on all the light there is no problem at all and so one of the the thing is that the arv big RV um industry companies like winbo Thor they are amazing companies I mean billion company but they've been doing the same her since decades and it works so why change they never change the weather we building their and I think that after covid there is this new Target this new people most of our customers they first timers they never had any RVs before and so they are looking for something different there one number I like to give is that on average airv owners in the US they spend 27 nights per year in their in their RV our customers they spend an average 180 wow you don't have the same needs when you spend this amount of time you need something that going to be easy to use Technologic like technologically at the high level you want a real toilet a real bathroom you want something that feel home so what I like to say is that we want to cut your living room put wheels on it and so you can go on the road and that's what we want like about Novo office and home on Wheels and what makes you guys more comfortable than the standard RV what are the advantages you guys inputed into the vanand the materials we're using uh first we bring one of our my cofounder has his own he's an engineer and it has your own Cabinetry company so he's a cabinet maker H in Paris so he's used to Tiny Parisian apartment Palace that he worked with so we bring some uh knowledge and some gears some to some materials from Europe and so we are only using like real wood we don't use Plastics we're using like fake laser but that's that is high quality ones so we use coron it's a very like a kind of marble that we have very light one but very resistant so all the materials we bring inside the van is something that is a highest quality than most of our customers of our concurent because they need to scale and do thousands and thousands of thousands so they reduce the quality and then we have something that we want to Novo is more like also a brand so I told you our customers spend 180 days on average on their vans that mean that there's 180 days per year that is the van is just sitting in front of the house where where we propose to our customers to bring their van to our partners and we have about seven Partners on the west coast and our partner will rent the van for our customers and give them 50% of the profit so when an RV was in expenses during decades now it become a passive income or at least it pay for itself so we want to create this these Brands where people are proud to be Novo owners that is not only buy a van and get out your a number on our list no every customer that buy a van become an ambassador and they can be paid for that so they can receive money while we are renting the van for them but if they send us customer we pay them if they join us from meetings like from events we pay them too if they receive call if they do after sale service so really want to create and Embark everybody all our customers want to play a road in the company they can do it so it's kind of like an Airbnb except with vans that you can live in and travel in you can have your Hol Holiday Homes on Wheels that's what I like to call it I have a customer living on the east coast and every time she come she drop the van L for example in Vegas the van is stay in Vegas all the time she take it dry for two weeks going to Los Angeles then drop in our partners in Los Angeles then fly back in on the east coast and then come back two months later drive it to Seattle leave it in Seattle go back to their house to to their main place and she makes passive income during the time so you guys how during that time how much of it is being are you able to rent it out for so we like to say 40% we don't want to sell dreams that what happens it of course depend of the season and and the location if you are in Vegas in the middle of the winter you won't have a lot of of uh rental uh if you are in in fenic in the middle of the summer neither so we like to play with these locations it's very nice to be in Los Angeles in Winter you can drive the van on the coast it's beautiful if you want to go in in I have a customer living in Mammoth in the van and he's going skiing every day is a cryptocurrency guy so he's going ski every day so I would say it really depends but basically for sure you will pay the van off so the thousand bucks per month that is the monthly payment when you do the financing we rent the van $300 a night so after three nights if you own it or six nights you will pay off your van and then we can rent it at least 10 days so it with the van you're not only paying for an Airbnb a place to sleep but you also have the ability to move it around where you want to go so if I'm traveling up the West Coast from Los Angeles and I'm going to San Francisco and I want to stop in Santa Barbara and I want to stop in montere I can merely rent the van and I'm not only saving the money that I would otherwise spend on a car but also on Airbnb and I just stop wherever I want to yeah and moreover now with all the on the industry having like more um companies that are like not only airv companies but like all around this airv industry you have Harvest host that's you sleeping Farms we went in Northern California lavender farm so you have you have lavender all around and you just park it's 120 bucks a year and then you don't pay anything when you sleep you just buy product from the farm so you go to winery you going to breweries then you have hip Camp it's the bbnb for heres so you have lot of different possibilities you don't need to you don't have to go to cam grounds only anymore you can go to lot of different options you have like wild cam grounds you have private properties you have Farms lots of different possibilities where you can be in a in a better place than a campground where you parked like in a park lot like that very fancy one and how many people does your do your van sit and do you have different sizes of Vans I'd imagine yeah we have three models so we've been doing like custom made for three years and after three years iterating on the product talking to our customers asking for the best options that that they like about our vans we um we have the novo light that is for solo Travelers and couples starting at 155,000 then we have the novo pop for families where it sleep for and drive for with two seats with a three-point seat belt so that's good for baby seats for example and then we have the novo plus that's our La latest model we just released it like four weeks ago three weeks ago Reed 40 pre-order for it for it 40 pre-orders 40 pre-orders people are and we don't even talk to them they just put deposit to be sure that they can be delivered in 2024 and this one is the very first 7 foot vanan in the industry and we are the first and the only company in the US working on this one and so we bring like a very technological van with lifted bed lifted table everything connected the beds go up and down able to adjust yeah and so you can have it Midway you can have kind of Bank bed because you can transform the dinet into a bed too or you can have like what I love when I'm traveling with my wife for example you drop down the bed you sleep and then you do make your bed press the button the bed go up and then you have your nice Sofa U so the U sofa with the big table and the four windows so no matter where you able to transform the area based on the current needs whether or not is sitting around the sofa or sleeping exactly and you can have a nap bed when you trans from this table into this sofa into a bed big bed so you can have when it's raining outside you want to watch a movie you have a TV in the mouth you can put it out you watch a movie then you put it like go sleep in your bed we try to make something versatile that is one more time very comfortable that's the comfort is the the key very very key feature for us where we want you to to feel at home and not in a recreational vehicle we want you to travel without any compromises and so I'm somebody who is also a digital no man of sorts how am I connected to the to the world when I'm in Redwoods National Park or yosity how how how do I stay connected you do have starlink from starlink from Elan musk that's impressive I have we tried it since three years now and the Improvement is just crazy we can see the satellite going on the sky sometimes you really can see this thousands of satellites going on the sky but I've been in your sem where you don't have phone signal you're not able to have a phone and I've been doing video calls with customers and I show them at video calls look I cannot call you I'm sorry I don't have phone signal but that's the video call working well say that's insane you are in your I can see the cap behind you and you're sending me a van come on I'm done and who are some of your biggest customers that might surprise people out there I would think I would think that um travel nurses is not the kind of of people we think about because uh they are helping there's two million travel nurses in the country helping people in in hospitals in different places and basically they have 13 weeks shift and they have to spend more than half of their salary in very bad airbnbs or or rental cars they don't know what to do in between shift or after hours when they're not working and so we sold more than 70 units to travel nurses or travel health health travel jobs that basically send us messages I was talking with Mary this morning you change my life I was I was like just doing my job going back to this rbnb that never felt home because it's always like inpersonal now I have my home on wheel and I can can go everywhere I can bring my my dogs or my pets or my cats and I can go sleep down by the river I can go go do everywhere sometimes they sleep on the on the hospital parking lot sometimes they sleep somewhere else so this I think people are looking for freedom and and and and Agility they want to be able to do whatever they want to do whenever they want to do so that's travel nurses are definitely like some kind of Target we never thought about so Paul how many how many years have you guys been at this how many how long have you been doing the business well we arrived uh just after like four days before the travel ban where where Europeans were not anymore authorized to come in the US um and we were four days before that was in 2020 May 2020 so it's been four years we are developing this business and you guys just opened up a new Warehouse a 20,000 square feet Warehouse so that's a big big change for us from six to 20 uh more than triple the size so now we're going to be able to build we've been doing six to eight van a months and when we talk to the industry they say there's no way you can do 6 to eight bands a month in a 6,000 feet house but we've we've done it and now we're going to be able to do one a day so because of the demand you moved into a bigger area to build and now you you're going to be able to produce more vans so if I were to put an order down and put a deposit down for a b how quickly would I get it so we have two options because we want to answer right away I want to tell you now if you want to buy a van you come to the office I have a van ready for you that's how the inventory van that we build thanks to all the knowledge we we've been getting from and all the feedbacks we've been getting from our customers um and otherwise we do have the pre-orders where we can select you can select options the color of the outside of the van if you have specific customization you are willing to talk about um we're always up and to so it's really we like to reverse the question to the customers like when do you want to have the van ready for you because then we can push some customer a bit further I have a customer tell me I can be delivered in October or December it's okay for me so I put in October but then if I have like a rush one then I can put this one later on so it's really like about like listening to the customer and how many Vans have you guys are out on the road how many newba Vans are out on the road right now well we have uh 26 school buses that what we started with the school buses and then we have 270 vans on the road 270 vans that that's that's something that's not nothing no that's not nothing that takes a lot of time to build and every time I say this number I'm even myself like wow I remember when we were in a garage in Las Vegas and and we had like three best friends in a garage and and building school buses from a little like literally it was I don't remember I think it was a 200 square fet garage so we were building everything from our like from scratch and when we remember that and when we see the new facility we said two ACR yard with the 70 um new van waiting to be built in the yard well okay that's what we call the American dream with think yeah well you guys are the entrepreneurs that help build America you guys America attracts people like you that are willing to go out there and put their money their time their energy on the line in order to produce new products like newvo Vans and enrich people's lives so Paul is there anything else that you'd like to add for any potential customers that out there that might be considering well first of all you're more than welcome to come in Vegas I know there always a moment that there's a way to come to Vegas for a weekend or for end end of a week you're more than welcome we love to have the customers and visiting our warehouse and show them what we are doing here and we're going to do events all events all around the country so check out our website nool life.com you can see all the information about that and uh hopefully we can be on the be on the road together sooner than later fantastic Paul thank you so much for the time thank you very much okay

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Length: 15min 26sec (926 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 01 2024