Meet the TikToker who quit van life after gas prices soared — she's making $4,000 a month while living in her car and waiting for her new Tesla to arrive

• Billie Webb is a TikToker who filmed herself taking part in van life last year.

• Now she has raffled off her van to live in a 2015 Mazda, blaming soaring gas prices.

• Webb, who makes about $4,000 a month from brand deals, has ordered a Tesla Model 3 to live in.

A TikToker quit her domiciled existence last year to join the van-life movement. Now, with a $4,000-a-month income stream and a clean slate of debt, she's taken the plunge to live in her car. Soon, she'll call a Tesla her home.

Billie Webb is a TikToker and content creator who has been traveling on the road for the past year, in a mix of her 1990 Chevy G20 van and her 2015 Mazda sedan.

Webb raffled off her van for $6 a ticket, selling nearly 2,900, before moving into her Mazda. Her master plan of living in her own Tesla continues to take flight.

Van life to car life

Webb moved into her van as COVID-19 restrictions eased last year, citing steep rental costs and low pay in the various odd jobs she was working.

"I would even be declining going out with friends for lunch because I was very worried about not having enough payment for rent," Webb told Insider. "But then I started meeting other van lifers who were also content creators and seeing how much they traveled, and I wanted to join them."

Van life has become more popular amid the pandemic and rising rents and property prices. But it has backfired for some, with one nomad telling Insider that she became homeless after attempting to live in her van.

Webb quit van life as gas prices soared, with her Chevy running at 7 to 10 miles a gallon and costing her more than $100 to fill up.

"I don't know if it's a very smart move for anybody to be living in a van right now, specifically if you are traveling," she said.