Would you buy a new EVan, with 300 is mile rang?

[Pudsey Bear]

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[trevskoda]

Side seats for passengers are a no no in uk, no belts either not that they fork in side possion, seems very tinney to me, na like windows il give it a mis.

 

[RichardHelen262]

It is just missing the UPS logos

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Sliding inside doors waste so much space, and wtf is that on the back about.

 

[Rumour]

270 miles? Then take off the 20% top of charge (should only charge to 80%!) Then take off the 20% bottom of charge and you have already lost a lot of miles. Then, doing more than 50mph will take off a few more and then you have to find a charger for it! I recon not much more than 150 miles if driven very carefully!

Edit: Just a thought.. Something that size is going to be over 4.25 tonnes, the proposed new weight for non C1 with electric vehicles.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Plus the gasses when it catches fire.

 

[CriftinsCampers]

It looks externally pretty hideous imho, but nevertheless as a prototype it’s the start of something potentially very different.
Not sure how the average beached whale sized yank would ever fit in the shoilet though!

Think I spied the Renogy Vision system as well which isn’t readily available in the uk yet and is staggeringly expensive compared to Victrons Cerbo range.

 

[CriftinsCampers]

As for range my car has a 300 mile range and that’s more than adequate between stops, as for our van which iirc doesn’t have a 300 mile range we rarely do more than 150 miles between stops which is typically around 4 hours driving