ON TEST: eDELIVER 3
Maxus shows it can deliver Andrew Walker Thanks to Covid-19 you may have missed the news that LDV changed its name in April, to Maxus. Maxus is owned by the Chinese SAIC corporation and is distributed in Europe by the Harris Group in Ireland. While Maxus is still making diesel vans – it recently launched a new large panel van, the Deliver 9 – it is in the electric van sector that it’s ahead of the game. First announced at the 2019 CV Show, the Maxus eDeliver 3 is the brand’s all-new mediumsized electric van. Where the Chinese came late to the combustion engine party, they were pretty much the first with electric powertrains, as the larger LDV EV80 can testify. From launch customers can select either a SWB or LWB version, the latter also offered as a chassis cab, paired with the more powerful battery. There are two battery packs to choose from: a 35kWh battery, offering a city range of 141 miles and a combined range of 99 miles, and the larger 55kWh battery, which increases the city range to 213 miles and the combined to 151 miles. A rapid 45-minute DC charge with both batteries will top up your battery to 80 per cent of range, while the most common Type 2 AC charger with the 35kWh battery will take six
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hours to the same level. On the 55kWh battery this increases to 8 hours. Payload is competitive, ranging from 865kg right up to 1202kg, depending on the battery pack and wheelbase specified. The SWB van measures 4.55m, with a 4.8m cubed capacity, while the LWB version is 5.15 m in length, with a 6.3m cubed capacity. The maximum cargo space height is 1330mm, maximum width is
1665mm and it measures 1220mm between the wheel arches. The cargo length is 2180mm in the SWB van and 2770mm in the LWB. The access at the rear, comes courtesy of a 60:40 split doors, which are 1.25m high and 1.25m wide. The side door is 710mm wide due to bulkhead intrusion and 1230mm high. Standard equipment includes arm rests, air-con, SatNav, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto,
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