That is the Toyota Proace Max. It’s an all-electric industrial car that simply went on sale in Europe because the Japanese firm’s first heavy-duty van within the area. Out there with a 110-kilowatt-hour battery and a single, front-mounted electrical motor that’s good for 200 kilowatts of energy, the Proace Max has a WLTP-rated vary of 260 miles.
If all of this sounds acquainted, you’re not flawed.
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Toyota would not make electrical vans for the European market, nevertheless it wants them to achieve tightening common carbon dioxide emissions limits that go into impact within the EU subsequent yr. Here is the place Stellantis enters the dialog, with its Fiat Ducato electrical van, higher referred to as the Ram ProMaster EV in america.
That’s as a result of this new electrical industrial car is definitely a Fiat Ducato beneath that Toyota badge. Or a Ram ProMaster, for that matter. They’re all similar apart from the logos and perhaps some plastic bits right here and there. Sorry, Toyota followers who had been hoping for a Japanese-made EV.
The Proace Max joins the equally badge-engineered Proace in Europe, which relies on the Citroen Jumpy, one other Stellantis product. Right here, the story will get a bit extra attention-grabbing and complicated as a result of the auto large may really convey this smaller industrial electrical car to america beneath the ProMaster Metropolis moniker–to not be confused with the even smaller Toyota Proace Metropolis, which is a Citroen Berlingo beneath. If small vans are your factor, you’ll find out extra on this devoted article.
Getting again to the Toyota Proace Max, its battery might be fast-charged at 150 kW, enabling a top-up to 80% state of cost in 55 minutes, in accordance with its maker. On the AC entrance, the van comes as commonplace with an 11 kW on-board charger.
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With a beginning worth of £60,180 (roughly $77,000 at present change charges) in the UK, the electrical Proace Max is offered both as a chassis cab or a panel van. There’s additionally a diesel model on provide which is cheaper and might be specced as a dropside, tipper and platform cab along with the panel van and chassis cab physique types.
Inside, there’s a 10-inch touchscreen for the infotainment system, a digital instrument cluster, computerized air con, computerized headlights with computerized excessive beam, a reversing digital camera and rear parking sensors. That’s exactly what the Fiat Ducato and Ram ProMaster EVs include from the manufacturing unit.