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The What Van? Road Test: Ford E-Transit (2022)
Date: Monday, April 3, 2023
Ford is going electric and is doing so with its usual two-fisted marketing vigour. It argues that E-Transit – the What Van? Van of the Year for 2023 – comes at a sensible price, offers a more-than-respectable range, and can deliver plenty of power if that is what is required.
That power comes courtesy of an electric motor pumping out either 135kW/184hp or a heart-stopping 198kW/270hp. Top torque is 430Nm in both cases.
Also in E-Transit’s favour is the breadth of the range, which encompasses 25 variants of van, double-cab-in-van and chassis cab. Gross payload goes up to well over 1.7 tonnes on the van model, while gross weights run from 3.5 to 4.25 tonnes.
Two specification levels are up for grabs – Leader and the more-upmarket Trend. Both offer more kit than the equivalent diesel model says Ford.
Of considerable potential value to trades people who make use of power tools is the availability of ProPower Onboard. It delivers up to 2.3Kw and can also be used to drive ancillary equipment.
We got to grips with a 350 L3 H2 van in Trend trim fitted with the least-powerful of the two motors. Here’s how we got on.
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