ON TEST: MAXUS eDELIVER 3
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Maxus delivers the goods with a genuine all-electric contender Andrew Walker gets to grips with the all-electric Maxus eDeliver 3 – and it’s got plenty to shout about Thanks to Covid-19, you may have missed the news that LDV changed its name in April 2020 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 is 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 in with electric powertrains, as the larger LDV EV80 confirms. From launch, customers can select either a SWB panel van or LWB version as a chassis cab, paired with the more powerful battery. Talking of which, there are two battery packs to choose from. A 35kWh battery, offering a city
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range of 141 miles and a combined range of 99 miles, and the larger 52.5kWh 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 to 80 per
cent of range, while using the most common Type 2 AC charger with the 35kWh battery will take six hours; on the 52.5kWh battery this increases to eight hours. Continued on page 26
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