I've got exactly the same van with 12k miles on it. Its averaged 150 miles a charge over winter, using the heater and heated seats, which costs £4.50 on my home charger.A Maxus dealer bi-annual service cost me £185. They come with a 5 year warranty on the whole vehicle and 8 years on the battery.Its perfect for me as a heating engineer doing local work, a charge can last me a week. Its great to drive, very quick around town and the insurance only cost me £405 a year and no road tax.I previously had a Transit Custom (69 plate) that cost me 26 pence a mile as opposed to 3 pence which this van costs and was no end of bother and broke down after 3.5 years, which was out of Fords 3 year warranty. That cost me £1500 to get fixed.Electric vans are no good for people doing big miles everyday but it suits me. Dont knock it until you've tried it.

I had a fully electric van as my work van between 2015 and 2020. Half the battery size of this so also half the range. It was the shops van, So it needed public charging in the car park to survive. Not sure what things are like now, but the council managed the chargers and that meant they were just left to rot. Electric is great within it's range and a great van, having predictable charging is a must. My current vehicle is back to diesel. After failures outside of warranty and very expensive repairs. I prefer something I can repair myself.

The trouble is that will be more like 110miles in the winter.

First electric van I've seen with a roof rack. Van looks empty. Roof rack and loaded cargo area will eat the range.

Waiting for the next gen of batteries to come out, we tried an e-vivaro and got about 80 miles in winter fully racked and loaded for heating/electrical around sussex. It was a nightmare if you were called out and didn't have enough charge to go back out. We also later found out that the larger battery pack puts it over the 3.5 tonne so the driver has to have the extended 4 day course for EV's otherwise the insurance is void. Little vans and local work - deliveries etc no brainer. Firms providing a call out service around a larger area they're not ready yet.

Great stuff Rog , always bringing interesting content . Keep it coming mate 👍

I use an electric Peugeot e-Rifter (the passenger version of the Partner van) as my daily car. I think it's great personally. Claimed range is about 160 miles, I get maybe 140 winter and 180 summer or thereabouts. Really nice to drive, very quick by van type vehicle standards. I'm on a cheaper overnight charging deal than this guy so end up paying around 2.5 pence per mile. Obviously charging at a public charger is a lot more, but still less than my diesel Transit Connect used to cost me. Batteries are on a 9 year manufacturer warranty, less parts to go wrong, I'm not going back to diesel any time soon.

Roger - i was just going to type give it 6 months and go back and see how hes doing but then you said it ! Reg Sep 2022 £41925 currently worth £22820 , he would not be charging at my house unless he paying for the electric. . 3 seats the weight of 3 burly builders

i am looking to buy a newer van since my van got written off about a month ago, was up Aberdeen way looking at a euro6 engine transit, the sales person told me to stay away from the Maxus vans, they had just had a 6year Maxus in for MOT and it had failed for holes in the chassis. maybe down south in Englandshire you guys will get more milage out of the chassis with the better weather in winter compared to Scotland and all the road salt and the sticky salt on the motorways but as i was told, they are cheap for a reason. i also dont get why roof racks are not as good as the past. i only need a roof rack 4 or 5 times a year which on my old transit 12 plate took 20minutes to bolt it to the van gutters and use it as i please. but the new body transits, it looks like i will need to have one on it all the time or no roof rack. was hoping to find an aftermarket roof rails like a car has that you can bolt a roof rack too but cant find anything so far. seems silly to me as its an essential bit of kit for some van owners. not running a roof rack can save £5 to £10 on fuel per tank when i tested it years ago, probably £10 to £15 in todays money. even better still why havent the big manufacturers designed a roof rack to fit into the roof body that you pull up when need it and tuck down when dont?

I don’t think you can consider them for long daily runs, but as a local runaround why not.

Early days for this fella

Fantastic :-) great vid

I notice the parent brand is SIAC MOTOR… I think they make MG cars 🚘

Build quality is not great and payload is definitely an issue. We have 6 of these at work so speaking from experience. Hopefully if UK government finally decide to up rate the GVW from 3500kgs to 4250kgs for alternative fuelled vehicles. Electric vans might start to make sense

Nice to hear positive things about EV vans. The first batch were just for homologation and compliance but these are getting decent. This week BYD announced the digital solid-state battery system is now here and will be mainstream from next year. This means fully charged in 10 minutes and 400 miles of range. It seems that EV's are finally starting to get useable. Nice one Roger good content.

What's the curly thing at the end of the ridge cap on that house?

Had mine for 4 years and never selling it . Just does the job and never goes wrong not even a light bulb as no vibration from the electric motor. It been charging today via my home solar PV so cost me nothing

I think we are still a little ways from it being something the average joe will go and by without feeling like it limits them, but for those who are happy to make some changes and adapt I see no problems with them if they are buit to a good standard.

A friend of mine bought a suv style electric jag for £72,000 and decided to sell it 10 months later . And the jaguar dealer offered him £28,000 for it and it only had just over 2000 miles on it.

How much was it? It's one of the main questions.

Interesting stuff 🤔🧱👍🏽

He will be in for a shock when he comes to sell it ….

Telling a customer you need their electric to do their job, is like saying to them I need to Syphon your diesel to do the job.

Maxus eDeliver 7 is the next new model, that has a way better range, of 230 to 340 miles Urban/city. Then is another version called the e Deliver 9?

Get that man onto intelligent octopus. 7.5p for 6 hours overnight.

Got a used and abused 2019 Nissan e-NV200… saving £200+ per month and zero maintenance. Would prefer the SAIC in fact, bigger cargo area, payload and towing. @skillbuilder you need to tell your mate to get on Octopus Intelligent, not limited to 4 hours overnight and it’s even cheaper!

Well I hope it works out for him, but I think he’ll live to regret buying that van. I hope he does give a totally honest review after 6 months. I’m guessing it will struggle to get over 100mile range in winter.

That is the van i got last week actually 😅

My 2014 VW diesel van has gone up in value since covid, so its basically cost me nothing to run the last 4 years and no depreciation. So at 40k with 10k a year depreciation, that Maxus is certainly not for me!

I dont live in Uk now....but in a second language i sometimes descibe a smiley faced transit as builder proof.....ive hammered pushrods straight on the kerb and got the things going at 10 o clock at night and theyve gone to work next morning ....😂😂😂

😮. What a roof that was Jay…

You will be sorry please come back for a update an honest one !!

I happily give him electric but i not got a drive so cant guarantee a space, guess ill be struggling for trade's in the future or maybe the world wakes up to deliver a decent alternative for all.

Fine for some,not for everyone. Depends on your circumstances.

How much did it cost? Why not say the cost?

Thanks Rodger that's the Way to go, if I were twenty years younger I would buy one tomorrow, but at 66 and gradually winding down I will stick with my old ex post office Maxus. Luckily I am just outside the ULEZ so don't clock up too many charges. TBH an extra 12.50 a day is not worth getting excited about IMHO.

Hard pass on Chinese anything.. Had to hire van for week as transit in for MOT.... Got what I thought was ldv maxis diesel turns out yeah it's Chinese.... 350 miles on clock, drove like it was broken. Terrible experience

Funny reading some of the luddite mentality comments below🤣🤣

Roger, how many heat pumps can you get in the back of one.

Chinese electric LDV. otherwise known as a no 36

It's sweet now but will soon turn sour

A matter of time before the batteries explode, thermal runaway!

sounds like a honeymoon convo.

Canterbury 50ml round journey, £1:10.....for now!!

He could have taken you for a spin….. 😊

God help us

A bit cheeky getting the customer to pay for his charging. It's like asking them to pay for your diesel, ulez, and congestion charges. All because he embraces new tech.

Oh dear.

Yeah right!! 😂😂😂

Why are they bringing road tax in for electric vehicles? When it's based on emmisions?

Fine for local work, however the bigger picture will affect everyone. By that I mean the thousands upon thousands of public chargers that will be needed, then all the infrastructure, additional power generation. Nobody is having this conversation, it's the same across the board, just popular agendas being pushed at us. Just how are EVs going to be adopted en- mass?

Nothing there about insurance costs

150miles fuck that

I am sure it’s £36k new Not in my lifetime Diesel till I Die It’s in the name 😀

And your customer should charge you for charging

Oh Christ Roger you've prodded the wasps nest again, first heat pumps now Chinese electric vans! Viewers Chinese manufactured phones and laptops with deadly lithium batteries in them are going to catch fire with the fury of the mashing their keyboards in the comments section 😂

Everyone forgets how terrible batteries keep over time especially when undergoing normal usage. Imagine your phone battery the day you bought it day one compared to 3 or 5 months in. The problem with electric car batteries is the surface area causes even greater potential loss over shorter time. Good luck keeping these for long term. I suspect junkyards will be over flowing with relatively young “cars” 😂

Don’t mention battery 🔥😅

Wouldn't ever consider a ccp made van, it feels like buying a something from Germany in 1938.

I wouldn't have one of those thing's given

Air con, heater, lights, radio and heated seats will soon be a no-no or you won’t get home!

why do we support their economy.

Here comes all the FUD from the Sun readers😂

Ah, looks good but can it burn?

Give it 5 years, the roof rack will be worth more than the van. Tesla knocked their cars by £30k and today they have anounced that they are sacking 10,000 people. Electric vans and cars may work in 20 years but not now. I can buy that van second hand in petrol for £5k, who's the fool?

Probably no worse Peugeot, Citroen , Fiat van

No thanks. I’ll buy something I can fix.

One born every minute of the day😂

Fancy buying Chinese.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

And the elephant in the room, depreciation, his L200 would have lasted 15 years if he looked after it

Don’t do it you’ll regret it, electric isn’t the way forward

Why would you bother? I can come and do your job for you, but I need to plug my van in what a joke. I think I’ll stick with burning diesel.

I would not have an Electric van if they were free..

I’d never go electric, but the man seems very nice, and has a lovely beard.

That particular van looks like a bag of shite; however, Chinese EVs are what's around the corner. The mass adoption price point for EVs is around the £20k mark (or less) and the Chinese are the only ones that can manufacture them to that price point.

How can people still falling for this other scam 😭

We have one in work, not worth a shite.

That is like asking for diesel money to come do a job. Jog on, the travel and fuel costs are in a tradesmans daily rate.

Yeah, you might want to watch a video by serpentza "Why China Can’t Censor and is Panicking about this EV Disaster", before you consider buying a Chinese EV.

Wouldn’t have electric vehicle given for free. Would rather walk.

I suggest that no one buys chinese EV's they are death traps so many vids on utube of the fires they are causing not the full truth as vids aren't freely available, a disgrace to expect the customer to charge the bloody van when on a job ffs imagine asking a customer to go buy some diesel, this bloke needs to charge his van at home even if he only gets 4 hrs at cheap rate tough luck, there is no way I would be charging anyone's EV the money he saves on road tax can pay to charge it, EV's are doomed musk has just laid off 10% of his world workforce as everyone is realising EV is not the way, this van will be no good fully laden. I made that mistake by having a mobile car dent repairer come to my house to sort out rear bumper as some clown ran into me, he quoted 250 quid but then on arrival I had to supply electricity for his tools curing heater etc I had the same price from a proper body shop and no extra costs. I wish I had this blokes e mail I would write and tell him what I think of him !!!!!

So you buy an electric van to help meet net zero from a country that is the most polluting in the world

Disappointed in SB even touting Chinese brands as the solution. If we are to go electric vehicle way, which btw I don't want, then we need to make sure they're at least designed and built in the UK. Or just watch the industry and British jobs disappear. Isn't there enough examples of the decimation of the UK steel, electronics, clothing, micro chip etc.. industries just walking right out of the door to warn us to not even talk about foreign brands. Just STOP IT.

If you got a set amount of cash to buy transport with to trade, which is a better decision for risk and money running ? Personally also I think what Khan has done in London taxing poorer road users that money to get about is utterly disgusting by the way. Then he has the nerve to call himself Labour.

Ev - big con . nothing is cheap. Give me petrol all day

Keep supporting the CCP!

More eco BS

150 miles!! Does it come with peddles! Not for me🫤

Looks like Roger has given up on the heat pump push now hes on the electric van scam push. What will Roger be attaching his flag to next week ?