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Bhanumati — A one-bedroom home that follows the road until the road runs out.

Built by Strofes. Lived in on real projects.

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Cutaway render of the Bhanumati expedition truck camped in pine forest beside a fire, its habitat shown through glass walls: bedroom at the rear, wardrobe and drawers, an enclosed bathroom with toilet and shower, the kitchen run with hob and sink, and the lounge dinette at the front — with roof-mounted solar panels and the habitat air conditioner above, and the boarding ladder down.

Why it exists

We built it because we needed it.

We did not build Bhanumati to sell. We built it because our own work kept taking us to places where the nearest hotel was four hours of bad road away — and where a tent does not cut it when you are running a deployment for three weeks in monsoon.

So we took a Pro 2110 chassis and spent the better part of a year turning its body into a proper home. Not a van with a mattress in it. A seventeen-foot habitat with a bedroom, a full kitchen, a bathroom with a shower, and a lounge you can work from — with seven feet of standing height throughout and the whole thing running off the sun.

It has since done exactly what it was designed for: forest camps, remote installations, long drives to national parks with the team asleep in the back. It is road-tested by the people who needed it to work.

What makes it different

Not a van with a mattress in it.

Runs on sunlight

1,110 W of roof-mounted solar feeding a 24 V / 200 Ah lithium-ion bank. Fridge, lights, laptops, fans and the water pump all run without a generator, without shore power, and without idling the engine at 2 a.m.

Air conditioned, properly

A 1 ton Panasonic Smart AC in the habitat and factory air conditioning in the driver's cab — because central India in May is not somewhere you sleep through on ventilation alone.

Stand up and walk around

Seven feet of interior standing height across a seventeen-foot habitat. You live in it rather than crawling around it, and it still clears legal road height at 3.1 m.

Genuinely self-contained

350 L fresh, 50 L grey, 50 L black and 190 L of fuel. Park up and stay — no hookups, no campsite, no daily resupply run.

Built for bad roads

A near-12-tonne commercial chassis under a purpose-built habitat, on the same forest tracks our surveillance crews take. Ground clearance and payload a converted van simply does not have.

Made to be maintained

Standard commercial running gear, serviceable at workshops across India. No imported drivetrain to strand you three states from a dealer.

The layout

Seventeen feet, planned to the inch.

Five zones front to rear: lounge, kitchen, utility, bathroom, bedroom. Here is the full build sheet.

Technical layout sheet for Bhanumati: 3D exterior view, interior cutaway, floor plan with zone dimensions, roof plan showing solar panels and rooftop AC, and elevation dimensions.

Exterior views, cutaway, floor plan, roof plan and full specifications

Specifications

Vehicle

Base vehicle: Pro 2110
Overall length: 23 ft
Habitat length: 17 ft
Cab length: ≈ 5 ft
Overall width: 7.2 ft
Overall height: 3.1 mLegal road height
Interior standing height: 7 ft
Gross vehicle weight: 11,990 kg
Fuel tank: 190 L

Water system

Fresh water: 350 L
Grey water: 50 L
Black water: 50 L

Electrical

Battery bank: 24 V / 200 AhLithium-ion
Solar panels: 2 × 555 WRoof-mounted
Total solar output: 1,110 W

Climate control

Habitat AC: 1 ton Panasonic Smart AC
Driver cabin: Factory cabin AC

Front to rear, five zones

Lounge / dinette

7 ft × 4 ft

The front of the habitat, with seating that works for dinner, for a laptop, or for four people waiting out an afternoon of rain. Windows on both sides keep it from feeling like a box.

Kitchen

4 ft × 2 ft

A full countertop run with cooking and sink area. With 350 litres of fresh water aboard you can cook properly for days without hunting for a tap.

Utility section

5 ft × 2 ft

Full-height wardrobe, refrigerator and general storage in one run — so clothes, food and gear each have a home instead of competing for the same cupboard.

Bathroom

5 ft × 3 ft

Toilet, shower and wash basin in an enclosed wet room. Not a portable loo in a cupboard — a real bathroom you stand up in, on a truck parked in the middle of nowhere.