Liberty Electric Cars shows the Deliver prototype
Liberty Electric Cars has been working on a new electric van prototype called Deliver and they think it has the potential to revolutionize the light-commercial vehicle market.
The Deliver project was co-funded by the European Commission’s Green Vehicles Initiative and was started back in 2011 with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of LCVs in urban areas by up to forty percent.
The first fully-functioning Deliver prototype has just been displayed for the first time at this week’s FISITA World Automotive Congress in the Netherlands. The prototype has a pair of in-wheel electric motors on the rear axle, each of them capable of producing 57kW of power and 42Nm of torque.
According to the company, the Deliver’s minimum driving range of 100km and a top speed of 100km/h thus making its very well suited for intra-urban application – things like postal, supermarket or city council service operations.
The Deliver features a gross vehicle weight of 2200kg and capable of a payload of 700kg, claiming an 18 percent greater cargo-carrying capacity when compared with production vans of a similar wheelbase.
The Deliver has been tested rather extensively at RWTH Aachen University’s new testing ground in order to analyze its energy efficiency, dynamic and static structural performance, active and passive safety, ergonomics and range.
The project was coordinated by the RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Automotive Engineering and comprises the know-how of ten European partners, including Fiat, Volkswagen and Micheling amongst them.
This is a very interesting approach from the European Commission to battle climate change and it’s great to see the administration making a proactive effort towards this goal.
And since we mentione a proactive approach from administrations to battle climate change it appears that the newly elected mayor of Paris has proposed a new mobility plan that would see the speed limit of pretty much all the city’s streets reduced to 30km/h. That’s one way of solving the issue.
