 |
| The Deliver |
BRITISH company
Liberty Electric Cars (LEC) recently demonstrated its full electric panelvan
concept in Maastricht.
Dubbed the Deliver,
the 2,2 ton vehicle can carry a payload of 700 kg. The concept deploys the
latest electric vehicle technologies with in-wheel motors that has two-speed
transmission. The battery pack has 80 prismatic Li-NMC cells to increase energy
efficiency and total range.
The cabin has a wide
opening without a B-pillar on the kerb side to facilate loading.
The van was tested at
the Aldenhoven Testing Center and can travel 100 km at 100 km/h.
The project, which is
co-funded by the European Commission as part of the European Green Vehicles
Initiative and gathered ten partners in consortium from seven countries. In a
statement, LEC said “the Deliver represents an attractive proposition for light
commercial vehicles with urban and intra urban applications such as postal,
parcel, supermarket and city council service operations”.
