Electric Van

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This evening we’re staying at our favourite pub near Harrogate. A low loader with an amazing looking van drew in. It is apparently the prototype, range 200 miles. Certainly looked beautifully made and apparently a camper version is being considered.

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Link to article HERE
 
Thought I read around 60k per unit somewhere. Not sure if that's a competitive price for a new electric van.
What it needs now is for British companies to get behind this venture & stop buying foreign imports. Let's see the country become great again . I can see these vehicles in big numbers on our roads in popular liveries like utility companies & large fleet users. Would be great to see these vans everywhere....
 
Funnily enough I saw the same heading down the M74 near the border last week. I wonder where it’s been and why?
 
I think he said £60k in the video.
 
2cv said:
This evening we’re staying at our favourite pub near Harrogate. A low loader with an amazing looking van drew in. It is apparently the prototype, range 200 miles. Certainly looked beautifully made and apparently a camper version is being considered.

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Link to article HERE
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Well, at least it won't have a radiator cap on the dashboard, inside the windscreen.

The van it's styled on did have just that. And I can tell you that when it boiled going up a hill, it was a very scary business pulling into the side with absolutely no visibility and steam filing the cab.

The steering was amazing. So direct that it was like handlebars
 
This prototype has been doing the rounds for a few years now, they now also have a pink one which judging by the look of the uneven panel gaps is another prototype.

It’s nothing like as well refined as the ID buzz and I fear even at the proposed high price if they don’t get something to market soon the market will overtake them.
 
Can't really compare R&D budget with the VW R&D budget.

Prefer the British one anyway VW is a bit naff.
 
I think the price of all the largish new EV vans is seriously naff!
The payloads are even nafferer…is that even a word!

There are exceptions a couple that have recently done a Maxus E deliver 9 conversion that popped on FB recently and those relatively crude vans can be bought secondhand now for closer to sensible prices but he had to be really careful to keep weight down, the 900kg payload was limited to start off with.

Obviously plenty of the leaf based vans have been converted to micro campers.

And if it wasn’t such an unpleasantly weird screaming thing to drive once the battery was flat the Transit Connect hybrid might be an option for a day van
 
Spoke to someone recently who had an electric car, moved to a fairly hilly area, and found it unreliable on hills in cold weather! I believe that newer versions are already being amended for various things so perhaps don't rush?
 
My use of a motorhome woud be totally unsuited to EV power. It is parked up for weeks on end, then travels hundreds of miles in one trip to a remote location with no mains supply. It then goes relatively short distances from place to place with no facilities or mains before then travelling hundreds of miles home.
 
Geek said:
Well, at least it won't have a radiator cap on the dashboard, inside the windscreen.

The van it's styled on did have just that. And I can tell you that when it boiled going up a hill, it was a very scary business pulling into the side with absolutely no visibility and steam filing the cab.

The steering was amazing. So direct that it was like handlebars
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Oh, and in deference to its successor, the fuel tank was tiny: it had to be refuelled at least once each day.
 
campingfun said:
Spoke to someone recently who had an electric car, moved to a fairly hilly area, and found it unreliable on hills in cold weather! I believe that newer versions are already being amended for various things so perhaps don't rush?
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We have spent lots of time over the last 7 years of ownership in North Wales, Hills aren’t a problem in fact driven sensibly up, to avoid wasting power excessively, there is usually a benefit in energy recovery going down the other side and often we’ve seen the range increase by a mile or so at the bottom.
 
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