the volkswagen westfalia camper is associated with the seventies , the summer of love and nature-loving hippies that now the iconic van is about to get greener because the bus will be reborn as an electric vehicle , a volkswagen board member revealed .
no images of the new vehicle have yet , but dr heinz-jakob neusser suggested that battery packs would be hidden under the vehicle 's floor and a small electric motor will drive its front wheels .