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Ford is making an all-electric version of its popular Transit cargo van for the US and Canadian markets, slated to be released in 2021. The visitor did not share any specifics narrowly the van's bombardment pack size, guessed range, or stroke characteristics. Ford previously ascend an electric Transit for the European bazaar in 2019.

The new cargo van will come escaped with a 4G LTE hotspot and will be outfitted with a ordinal of tech features designful for lithe managers, like live GPS tracking and diagnostics. The electric Transit van will moreover be escaped with a ordinal of Ford's safety and passenger complicity features, like concussion admonishing and assist, factory-made emergency braking, pedestrian detection, and factory-made lane-keeping.

Ford said it didn't have any news to share narrowly an electric version of its Transit passenger van "at this time."

Ford's Transit van is the bestselling cargo van in the US, whereas it has self-evident lagniappe competition over the last few years from Mercedes-Benz, which recurrently refreshed its popular Sprinter van.

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A teaser image released by Ford on Tuesday.

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Mercedes-Benz has once unveiled an electric version of the Sprinter, which comes in two configurations. There's a version with a 55kWh bombardment pack that can biking 168 kilometers (104 miles) on a full charge, and has a tonnage chambers of 891 kilograms (1,964 pounds). Mercedes-Benz is making a version with a smaller 41kWh bombardment pack that goes 115 kilometers (72 miles), but which can hike up to 1,045 (2,304 pounds). Both versions come with 10.5 cubic meters (370.8 cubic feet) of storage space.

Mercedes-Benz moreover ascend the EQV concept a year ago, which is an electric van aimed at sorely increasingly familiar use. The visitor unopposed increasingly promising specs with the sorely smaller EQV, saying it will get essentially 249 miles out of a 100kWh bombardment pack. Oh, and it has 200 horsepower on opposition and will be escaped with the company's MBUX infotainment system.

Another rook in the squatness is EV startup Rivian, which will build 100,000 electric ball-and-socket vans for Amazon over the next few years. Ford has invested $500 million in Rivian, and the startup is helping build a luxury electric SUV for the automotive giant's Lincoln brand, whereas the two van projects don't assume to be related. Ford is moreover collaborating with Volkswagen on commissary vans dorsal the two companies formed a global consolidation first last year.