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Britain’s best selling vehicle isn’t a hatchback or an SUV - it’s this – the Ford Transit Custom. It’s such a common site on the road that they are like lamp posts. You don’t even notice they are there. But they are getting on with the job of transporting plumbers and plasterers and … police people all over the UK.

So for this van to go electric is big news.
Like the standard Custom, it looks great – the only real hints that this is an electric van are a blanked-off grille, discreet charging port in the bumper and e-Transit badging to the rear. Yet beneath the skin, it’s very different to a piston-powered Transit Custom. For a start it’s rear-drive instead of front, with an underslung battery pack and rear-mounted electric motor.

There’s a choice of three power outputs – 135 or 217PS in the two volume trims and 285PS in the Ford e-Transit MS-RT, which is the rally-inspired performance option. All versions come with a 64kWh battery pack, offering a maximum of 209 miles range on the official WLTP cycle. That sounds a bit small compared to rivals like the VW ID.Buzz and Vauxhall Vivaro.

Charging times are generally in-line with rivals– using a 125kW rapid charger will get you from 10-80% in about 40 minutes.

Total payload is 239kg less than diesel models at 1088kg and there is a choice of body options - panel van, double-cab with six passenger seats, a Kombi with up to eight seats or a Multicab with a two-seat second row and staggered bulkhead, allowing longer loads on one side. There are also two wheelbases: standard L1 or extended L2, with one roof height – H1, which at under two metres in height will fit in a standard domestic garage.

In L1 form, it offers 5.8 cubic metres of cargo space, with an extra cubic metre in longer wheelbase L2 layout.
To discover more, join Nicola as she puts the E-Transit Custom through its paces. Is this the best electric van on the market? Let us know in the comments below.

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