New Ford Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid - Answering Questions

[@mickeymouse1248]

Recieved my transit today....never driven anything like it before....I had many questions but you have answered them all. Thank you so much for taking the time and for making your video's. It is very appreciated!:)

[@VToldsMotoShow]

I'm glad to see that. Thank you for letting me know since I was hoping that the video would be useful. Now you've got yourself a really cool Transit!

[@LeLaidbackLauncher]

Seems like it would be perfect for Vanlife in the U.S. If you have solar panels on the roof, you can use the cars battery as backup for utilities in the van. Or the reverse could be true: when you produce excess electricity, you can reroute it to the car battery, extending range (esp if you can find a way to charge the car battery from solar panels while driving) Since you take many, longer stops (in potentially isolated areas without gas station) in Vanlife anyway, this would be very convenient.

[@danyminne9003]

Can you use the engine temperature to heat up the cabin?

[@danielwhite389]

What do I do if it won't change mode?

[@VToldsMotoShow]

Id' say - call the dealership.

[@irvingontiveros2798]

Hey hello, I need help, I have a 2008 Volvo s80 v8, what happens is that the driver's side wiring has been damaged, I have taken it to the authorized workshop and they don't know how to solve it,I do not really know what to do :(

[@VToldsMotoShow]

There are basically two ways, first it to give it to some technician that will check all the wires and charge you a lot for the time spent on it. Or simply order the Volvo dealership to replace the wiring. The question is, which presents less risk to you. It may be hard to decide based on pricing as checking the wires may solve it in 1 hour and it may just as well take days. First I'd ask dealership for pricing of replacing the whole wiring to get the reference point. I assume that you're sure that the problem that you're facing is around the wiring itself. Good luck!

[@tetatoto23]

I wish to delay starting the combustion engine. Can I add batteries to increase the distance travelled in 100% electric mode?

[@VToldsMotoShow]

Hi, I am almost entirely sure that replacing the battery with a larger one is not possible. Definitely not officially and not within Ford's official distribution. Perhaps one day there will be some remote "power banks" that you can have with you and charge the car from them. This is a good idea by the way.

[@tetatoto23]

@@VToldsMotoShow I would not like to replace the batteries if I would buy such a vehicule. I am wondering whether it is possible to add more batteries, because there is room enough inside the cargo space.

[@edokacej2603]

There are "powerbanks" for EV. But there is "but". Not sure -it looks so far nobody was thinking about inside vehicle connecting point. So now you only can stop/ park , connect powerbank from outside like you do from home or public charger, wait..... I don't think you can connect somehow powerbank and straight drive . Hopefully by time designers will use brain ... (If I am wrong -correct me)

[@abucklife]

What’s the expected mpg when using the engine only?

[@VToldsMotoShow]

There is no official data on it but my test shows that you should expect around 8 liters per 100 km - that's 29 mpg as far as I'm concerned. It didn't go up but as with any car - pushing it to the limit while driving on petrol can rise it significantly.

[@abbeymeadswindon]

What's the cost

[@VToldsMotoShow]

40-50 thousand Euros or around 40 thousand GBP starting price as I know.

[@missiontent111]

So using the petrol engine to do on- board charging will give you 27 miles of driving.

[@toyotaprius79]

1:10 I don't think that's entirely a fair or conclusive test, V-Told. In your second video you showed the car to accelerate on the battery exclusively, hence why the kW gauge showed ~85kW of power. There's a pretty powerful 1.0l 3 cylinder ecoboost on board to use for power and range extension. And as your man has said, the battery got hot after hard driving, you're supposed to drive with both petrol and electric outside of town usage. IMO, this is Ford's fault for not making a flexible-enough drive train. I worry that the 1.0l engine may drink too much fuel by driver who don't charge up their Transits. Around 9l/100km like you mentioned. If Ford fitted CCS charging, this won't be an issue on long journeys.

[@VToldsMotoShow]

To be honest, I am assuming that what I've been told about no difference in performance is in place and that's why I didn't bother to try to measure acceleration times in different modes. Driving on petrol only may make it drink around 9 liters if driven hard or only on a highway and with load. I think so at least. It's still not terrible for a big van though. Anyway, thanks for input!

[@ЕвгенийЧуприна-ч2щ]

❤️🤝

[@pollms]

What will be the starting price? Aprox

[@VToldsMotoShow]

The starting price in the UK for the Transit van should be around 40k pounds. That would be around 50k Euros.

[@tetatoto23]

I thought the reading speed was x2 ...

[@VToldsMotoShow]

Good feedback, thanks - will slow down from now on.

[@RonRPL]

It can not go faster than 120 km/h, it can not tow trailers, it is limited to L1H1... :/ There is still some things to be solved before electric cars will replace petrol or diesel cars...

[@VToldsMotoShow]

This is an especially weird creature.

[@RonRPL]

@@VToldsMotoShow In other video presenter called it a "test ballon" ;-) Ford will check how will this kind of vehicles sell.

[@timogronroos4642]

FYI: There's no electric engine, it's an electric motor

[@VToldsMotoShow]

Merriam-Webster doesn't agree with that opinion: www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engine Perhaps you meant a "hybrid" which is a common mistake as there's no "hybrid engine" but a "hybrid powertrain".

[@PaganiniPagani]

Panie to je sie psuje szfagier tego nie umie 🤣

[@debendragurung3033]

It's a series hybrid. It's the same shit..

[@bartitdi8152]

Ja nie panimaju nagraj po polsku.

[@VToldsMotoShow]

Wystarczy kliknąć w filmie "napisy", później na ikonkę z ustawieniami bardziej na prawo i tu kliknąć "napisy", a dalej aby KZbin wygenerował je automatycznie po polsku.

[@bartitdi8152]

V-Told dzięki Witoldzie

[@VToldsMotoShow]

Jestem do usług!

[@RonRPL]

To się ucz języków, głąbie.

[@roar40s]

I have a question. If the batteries cannot be recycled in order to make them safe, isn't all this electric driving nothing but virtue signalling?

[@VToldsMotoShow]

This topic is not being touched by many as we still don’t know how recycling and the whole management after using the batteries is and will be handled. All these cars are still so new that this process hasn’t really been pushed on a large scale. It’s a good topic overall and I’d love to know the long term plans too. I believe that with the development of technology, there will be better and better and more efficient ways of recycling the batteries.

[@toyotaprius79]

@@VToldsMotoShow It doesn't take long to find out what the formal process of recovering batteries is. I'm afraid Lensvelt is just spouting common fodder facebook-internet rumors. I've heard of the same baseless questions since 2010. They haven't changed. Electric cars have evolved almost unrecognizably since 2010. Lithium ion and indeed all batteries can have their materials recycled, but in real world practice, when a battery is 15 years old and "unsuitable for vehicle purpose", a whole propulsion battery can still be valuable and not a single person with half a brain will throw away a high voltage battery weighing +230kg into a landfill. In fact, a capacity degraded battery will only have at most 1/8 of its modules or cells being tired, damaged, or most often out of voltage balance (easily refurbished). A battery of hundreds to thousands of cells behaves like an army; it marches as fast as its slowest solider. We (Lensvelt) have to be honest with ourselves of how electric vehicles are built and how they work. It makes no sense to worry that batteries will be put in landfill or not reclaimed, because of the fact that batteries are still very valuable and the OEM manufacturer like Toyota, Nissan, Renault or BMW routinely reclaim them for static battery storage. In fact, it's becoming a trend of batteries being bought separately from crashed cars. Whenever there's a totalled and written off Tesla Model S or X, it's very common to see them bought for over $50,000 because their battery and motors are so valuable to reuse for car conversions, EV upgrades and home solar storage.