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The range is for “low-roof cargo van variant”. I’d like to know if that’s empty or loaded, and under what EPA test conditions. City, highway, or combined????

Originally Posted by Ford

E-Transit is a smart workhorse for U.S. cities designed with insight from 30 million miles of customer telematics data to deliver the right amount of range based on fleet needs – at a price that makes it easy to switch to electric. With a usable battery capacity of 67 kilowatt-hours, E-Transit will deliver an estimated range of 126 miles in the low-roof cargo van variant. The E-Transit has a starting MSRP under $45,000 for U.S. fleet customers – and comes backed with an eight-year, 100,000-mile electric vehicle component warranty5.

It would seem that keeping cost low enough to compete with gas Transit was a high priority. If they doubled battery capacity by adding another 67 kWh, it would add about 1,000 pounds of weight, but perhaps as much as $20,000 extra in cost above the $45,000. That would make it very difficult for businesses to justify.