Thanks for the honest feedback, I purchased my 2016 T6 back in 2019 its a diesel and have no intention on going electric.

Thanks for sharing this honest and real life experience of electric vans and weak charging infrastructure.

A good honest report 👍

Fair play to you buddy! I’d go electric but you’re right, the infrastructure just isn’t there and with the batteries are at this point the range is restrictive and costly as you point out. Thanks to you for your advice!

If it is subsidised its just paying for it twice the government's use your money for subsidies then you pay again at the charge station, thank you for an honest review

Great video thank you, Interested to see how the ID cargo would stand up to everyday use

You could fit the home charger run the cable from the board to where you want the charging point , get a sparks to wire it up when you move take the charger and cable with you , should be no more then half a days work for the sparky

Thanks for such an honest review on electric vans a lot of people won’t admit that they should have waited a bit longer and we are not saving the environment as much as everyone thing when u consider the way they mine the batteries fair play again

maybe you should have bought one with a decent range that isnt overpriced by 10 grand, plenty of vans out there with 200 mile range that start at 30 grand brand new.

Unfortunately you picked a van with a very low range!! Vans like Citroen eDispatch, Vauxhall Vivaro e, Toyota Proace and Peugeot eExpert can do around 200 miles….Why did you not go for one of those? Your situation will improve a lot when you get your home charger, though. Do you not have a granny 3 pin cable to use at home while you’re waiting?

Totally agree our local Council turn them off at Christmas time and they are still off I’m going to go back to a diesel

Iv got one coming in the next couple of weeks, i think this van is designed for a very limited market, i should be ok as i do local deliveries round Brighton and very rarely do more than 50 miles and have a home charger and a cheap electric tariff to charge between 12-4am when its cheap

I can understand electric cars for office workers going to same place everyday but it just wont work for tradesmen if you do 4 5 jobs in a day it will need charging. If you forgot to charge one night have to cancel jobs to wait for it to charge.

The problem is range and the transporter is as van man talks angle towards a very particular use case. Look in to the iD buzz cargo which should have 300 miles plus. I for one would love to have an electric transporter with comparable range to the diesel so I could do a camper conversion. To me bother the e crafter and e transporter are not attractive to me because of the lack of range. Add to that the degradation of the battery over time and it becomes even more unappealing. Hopefully Tesla will open there network soon like they are trialing in Holland and there will be more charge points, but a home charger is a must. Get a good EV friendly tariff and you’ll save loads of cash. Good luck anyway! You could always trade in the car for an ID buzz cargo if you need more range?

I have a 150 BHP t6.1 and I get around 60MPG in the summer at 60MPH, late 40s early 50s around town in the summer and mid to late 40s in the winter. It’s an insanely efficient van and practically as cheap to run as a decent car. Electricity prices have hiked, raw materials are really expensive and this decline in EVs and battery pack costs everyone banged on about really isn’t happening right now due to the shortages of everything, and will take a good 5-7 years to catch up with itself. I love the idea of an electric car and van, but the world clearly isn’t ready for them for the average consumer.

The current electric Transporter looks pretty but it’s a third-party conversion, and was never designed to be an electric vehicle. It’s basically a stopgap that VW released just so they could say they made an electric van. Works ok for short trips around town, if you can charge back at base every night, but that’s about all. The Vauxhall / Peugeot/ Citroen vans are the only game in town currently (200 mile range, 100kW charging) and with one of those and overnight charging at home your experience would be totally different. The other van manufacturers really need to get cracking on proper electric vans asap - it’s like they’re still making mobile phones from the late 90s while everyone else has iPhones. The only other thing I’d say is, if you must charge the Transporter while on the road, find a 50kW charger where electricity is much cheaper. You’ll always pay a big premium at 150kW chargers (almost twice as much), and the Transporter is limited to 50kW so won’t charge any faster.

Correct in every aspect, bloody ridiculous....I'm waiting for my Honda CR-V HYBRID to be built and delivered....so why you may well ask! First...Atkinson System Petrol Engine connected to a small regenerative Battery, obviously the way forward will be Hydrogen, (in the next 30+ Years!!). Second...*Good one this*....Local wealthy Farmer purchased 2 EV's around 6/7 Years ago, one for his Wife, one for Himself. Went to same Dealership to purchase 2 Replacements, SAME MANUFACTURER, and was advised that due to the age of the first purchases both Cars would need to have the Batteries TOTALLY replaced before they could put them on their Forecourt to resell, needless to confirm both Cars were worth NOTHING to the Dealership in Resale value, hence NO residual value to p/x for new vehicles. CONCLUSION...Farmer went back to his Acres, informed our Local Fire Brigade, took BOTH Cars into the centre of one of the Larger fields and set light to them. I must add that the Farmer, being an Environmentalist, made arrangements for what was left of the Cars to be Professionally removed from his Field. To add "insult to injury" this particular wealthy Farmer has his own very efficient WIND TURBINES....Needless to confirm both He and his Wife, (and extended Families), are in the process of purchasing NEW Petrol Hybrid Vehicles...STAY SAFE..above all STAY CALM, Friend.,,G.A.R.

How long do you have to wait for it to charge?

Hi just come across this video Just wondered how your getting on with the van I have 2 and have a had issues from the start , currently both only charge to 43mile range max

I just got mine 2 days ago still waiting for the home charger to be installed, you are right we arent there yet. Vw say 82 mile range, mine on a full charge says 59 is that right?

So do you get any we’re near the 80 miles on a charge

If you work your hourly rate in to the waiting time to charge it’s not that good.

And don't forget cold weather affects these batteries drasticly you can lose 25 to 35% works same as a car battery they die in cold weather

There are literally thousands of chargers across England and shedloads in and around Manchester. What are you talking about?

Give it back.. or get a diesel generator and throw it in the back👍

Yep going green means vw and the rest of them are making a fortune, forget that shite

5 min to fill with diesel or an hour to charge,losing money on the job.

It beggars the question...why on earth did you buy one???

Stay with the diesel transporter better van

Worse thing I’ve bought in my life! How many of us have researched adding range to the van?! Lol

Who the hell has time to wait at the charge station for an hour every day? What a load of shit.

Everything will go to hydrogen in the end. Around 50% of an EV is built with oil based products anyway

Not going to happen in my life time, its just to make tree huggers happy. Xmas time they moan of possible power shortage with tree lights on

Going electric will never happen,

Government con

Spend most of your life on a charger no thanks I will stick to petrol

The van is rubbish i had one for 3 months the max mile i could get was 45 to 50 shit

80 miles ffs.....useless...