In Europe, vans are essentially what pickup trucks are in the USA. We even had a period with double-cabin trucks with smallish cargo space that were used as private cars, before the SUV/CUV craze made
are the top of the van market. The smallest is the Citan, a rebranded Renault Kangoo with some Mercedes bling-bling. The middle sized van is the Vito, and the big van is the Sprinter. Vito and Sprinter are real Mercedes-Benz vehicles, with the quality associated with the name.
The extra length adds 35 kg to the mass of the vehicle and €955 to its price, making the allowable load 35 kg smaller. But still, the eVito is the Vito with the biggest allowable load — 867kg /832 kg. Looking for the smallest battery that can get the job done is logical — cheap LFP batteries for commercial vehicles are shown at shows like IAA Transport in Hannover, but are not for current vehicles. Using a motor that is too small does not make sense. The performance penalty of the weak motor is far bigger than the price penalty of an adequate motor, say a 120 kW motor.
But this is where praise stops. As the Mercedes representative said, it is just another powertrain. I did not fully realize what that implied.
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