Front thing is a bug deflector - somewhat common in USA, don’t really work to my knowledge. Mostly on trucks driven by old people. Also used to keep rock chips off front part of the hood.
16:25 Hexagon meaning: B = Type-1 single phase up to 250V C = Type-2 three phase up to 480V K = DC CCS ( 50-500V ) up to 250kW. L = DC CCS (200-920V) up to 450kW M = DC CHAdeMO (50-500V) up to 200kW N = DC CHAdeMO (200-920V) up to 368kW O = DC Type-2 (aka DC-mid) 50- 500V officially 70kW max
All the spoilers are very useful. Especially those for the windows. You can buy them as an aftermarket part on my side of the moon. If you're like me and hate the plastic smell. They are very good of stopping the rain from entering while the windows are not completely shut.
Been driving my T90 EV for 5000km now and im pleased with how it works. Cruise control is available as an option, at least in Sweden :) It's not supposed to take 80kW with DC as you say in the video. 70kW is maximum! I have a nice customized housing for dogs on my T90 and i drive around 300km per charge.
The #1 selling vehicle in Australia for many years has been this type of vehicle mainly in 4WD mode...usually the HiLux but every now and then the Ford Ranger gets involved (the only reason Ford still exists in Australia). There are many reasons why BEVs are not in Australia in any numbers but the lack of this type of vehicle especially for fleet sales (business commercial sales) is a big factor. Maybe put a couple of 200L drums of whatever in the back and the ride may improve. Can only imagine what will happen with the electrons being consumed when a few accessories are added especially a bull bar, proper side steps (sliders) and a decent rear tow hitch. Another good review...thanks.
Thanks for reviewing this pick-up/Double-cab. There are some faint similarities with the Amarok, Ranger on the back, and on the side as well. I like what i see, and i think this is just but a prototype of things to come
The way power decrease is very similar to the motor power curve generally, plus the fact that top speed is at 126kph, I guess the gear ratio is a lot higher than other EV. Which probably mean motor is running at inefficient power band (Again, just guess)
Thanks for your test. It's a pity that the first "real" e-pickup in Europe seems to be such a bad vehicle.... No cruise control, no automatic climate control, only 1,000kg towing capacity and no all-wheel drive.... With all wheel drive and 2,000kg towing capacity this pickup would at least be a good hunting vehicle for the price. If then automatic climate control, cruise control and a GPS are added, it will then also be suitable for everyday use. But probably then too expensive. Looking forward for the 1.000km Challange.
That is for fleet procuring. A product of tax saving measure. Not for avaerage consumer... Hence, it is crude and bare bone. Personaly, I need this. When I buying a pickup, Im after the bed. Not so much of towing cause I dont hunt. But I do haul soil and slumber for my back yard
@@林振华-t4vyeah it’s a pretty uninteresting vehicle to the majority but when it’s being offered at £100 a month on a lease, it will have many people choosing it purely due to the stupidly cheap cost of ownership
Thanks for the review. It’s not been received very well at all here in Australia, where it starts off at $93,000… the same vehicle in NZ starts at $80,000 from what I can gather. Either way, it’s very expensive for what it is.
Your expressions when listening to the audio tracks are hilarious. It's similar to the face I would pull if I took a whiff of bad cheese hahah! Love your videos, please keep it up
Test driven it in Norway, extremely shitty car, in my opinion atleast. Does not drive nice, charges dogslow, just a converted ICE truck and put a battery in it. Hope your testing the Ford F150 Lightning soon as well, as thatone is available in Norway as well.
‘Extremely shitty car’ - it’s a work truck, nothing more, nothing less. No-one buys this expecting car levels of comfort. A top spec US style pickup this is not.
Very interesting truck, thanks for reviewing I was looking for something along these lines but the market has very few offers A note, the "infotainment" is somewhat similar to the one on the Dacia Spring, same for the gear selector and key "ignition". The Spring is also a budget SAIC product, might be a cost cutting measure. About the high speed limitation, could be another thing - current limitation in the inverter. If the car is targeted for low speed high weight, you'd design the powertrain motor with a high BEMF, which would unfortunately penalise the high speed where the field weakening requirements would take precedence over the drive current. The fw precedence is a safety feature on all cars and a must have, but usually we design EV powertrains for a given expected duty cycle, and this is just how it turned out for this one, imagine like the motor is wound in a "low gear". It'd be nice to load up the truck and move it along, if designed right it should do way better than on otherwise high speed efficient car
Would be cool if it was tested offroad and maybe loaded with weights, maybe you could borrow a pallet off bricks or cement/sand bags from some building store.
Very basic vehicle, appropriate for a work truck. Low cost, able to transport a crew of 5 to a work site and back. No need for cruise control or long range if used in an urban setting. A rural work truck would need both range and cruise. For trucks like this, it would be great if Bjørn would test how it drives, and how much the rear suspension sags, with a full load. Maybe do consumption and range with a full load as well.
The greatest weaknesses are the lack of AWD, the short Range, the price and the low trailer weight. The other drawbacks are not so severe findings, because a pick up truck is für short and medium distances. I would not go long distances with this truck. But as second car it’s too expensive.
No trailer hitch, no navigation, incredibly sparse equipment otherwise. Very clearly just the base model equipped with a battery and electric motors. The Maxus experience isn't really showing too much promise just yet.
It is available with a towbar, but can only tow 1000 kg max. Which would be fine for most of us on a normal passenger car, but not anywhere near good enough on a pickup.
@@dorsetengineering The other 2 aren't out yet, the Ram won't come out for some time in fact...........but yeah it's more about having something smaller, and also something simpler/cheaper.
@@godofdun Reading your original post again, I see now that you reference the smaller trucks. I think there is still an issue regarding the minimum weight for US trucks, so that they are actually categorised as a truck for the purposes of EPA fuel economy stuff. That might hinder the launch of the smaller truck in the US market. I believe for the rest of the world that we’ll see an electric Ranger/Amarok soon, built with the iD4 motor and battery.
@@dorsetengineering Are you referring to the implications of the "chicken tax"? That would certainly be an issue, yeah. They'd likely have to make them here, or at least do a final assembly workaround like Mercedes does with the sprinter van.
Wow, where do we start? So much needs to come from this category. SAIC is really missing a trick with restricting effectively FREE tech in cabin. These Pick-Ups really need to be 4WD though before they have arrived.
Japanese or Chinese mid-sized trucks are built for commercial or industrial purposes. High towing, payload, durability, low price. Comfort and tech are of low priority. It's unfair to expect them to match family car or suv on features, comfort or NVH.
A truly terrible EV Ute, These are for sale in Australia, but they only sell a 57kwh battery version called the eT60 which SAIC sells under the LDV brand instead of Maxus. The real kicker is the price, it's $92,000 before tax. Thats 624,000 Krone for the small battery version. It has virtually no amenities and has less equipment than a base level Toyota Hilux. The eT60/eT90 are just a joke.
Front thing is a bug deflector - somewhat common in USA, don’t really work to my knowledge. Mostly on trucks driven by old people. Also used to keep rock chips off front part of the hood.
16:25 Hexagon meaning:
B = Type-1 single phase up to 250V
C = Type-2 three phase up to 480V
K = DC CCS ( 50-500V ) up to 250kW.
L = DC CCS (200-920V) up to 450kW
M = DC CHAdeMO (50-500V) up to 200kW
N = DC CHAdeMO (200-920V) up to 368kW
O = DC Type-2 (aka DC-mid) 50- 500V officially 70kW max
0:27 The 'spoiler' is actually a bug deflector. The purpose is to deflect the wind in such a way that bugs don't hit your windshield.
All the spoilers are very useful. Especially those for the windows. You can buy them as an aftermarket part on my side of the moon. If you're like me and hate the plastic smell. They are very good of stopping the rain from entering while the windows are not completely shut.
Been driving my T90 EV for 5000km now and im pleased with how it works. Cruise control is available as an option, at least in Sweden :) It's not supposed to take 80kW with DC as you say in the video. 70kW is maximum! I have a nice customized housing for dogs on my T90 and i drive around 300km per charge.
is it 4wd
2WD @@---rb7ug
@@---rb7ugthey are not
The #1 selling vehicle in Australia for many years has been this type of vehicle mainly in 4WD mode...usually the HiLux but every now and then the Ford Ranger gets involved (the only reason Ford still exists in Australia). There are many reasons why BEVs are not in Australia in any numbers but the lack of this type of vehicle especially for fleet sales (business commercial sales) is a big factor. Maybe put a couple of 200L drums of whatever in the back and the ride may improve. Can only imagine what will happen with the electrons being consumed when a few accessories are added especially a bull bar, proper side steps (sliders) and a decent rear tow hitch. Another good review...thanks.
"I'm not a pick up guy, I just pick up girls... AAAHAAHAHA, shit, ok." 🤣
The "spoilers" are stone chip protectors (front) and weathershields (windows) so you can let air in but not rain in, in "weather".
17:35 power meter is maybe a torque meter -> in an electric motor torque goes down at higher speeds and in field weakening range
YES, ALL electric motors suffers from BACK-EMF, spin faster, heat goes up, power drops off🤣
When I tow a open trailer with my EV6 the consuption is way higher than I cover it. For that, Tesla thumbs up for the slopeing cover of the Cybrtruck.
Thanks for reviewing this pick-up/Double-cab. There are some faint similarities with the Amarok, Ranger on the back, and on the side as well. I like what i see, and i think this is just but a prototype of things to come
"Just wanna twist that shieet!" Pure Bjorn
The way power decrease is very similar to the motor power curve generally, plus the fact that top speed is at 126kph, I guess the gear ratio is a lot higher than other EV. Which probably mean motor is running at inefficient power band (Again, just guess)
Thanks for your test.
It's a pity that the first "real" e-pickup in Europe seems to be such a bad vehicle....
No cruise control, no automatic climate control, only 1,000kg towing capacity and no all-wheel drive....
With all wheel drive and 2,000kg towing capacity this pickup would at least be a good hunting vehicle for the price.
If then automatic climate control, cruise control and a GPS are added, it will then also be suitable for everyday use.
But probably then too expensive.
Looking forward for the 1.000km Challange.
Maxus will launch a Pick-up that check your boxes during 2024. It's called Maxus GST but will be launched with the name Interstellar.
@@robinsvensson3142 Very nice. Thank you for the Info!
That is for fleet procuring. A product of tax saving measure. Not for avaerage consumer... Hence, it is crude and bare bone. Personaly, I need this. When I buying a pickup, Im after the bed. Not so much of towing cause I dont hunt. But I do haul soil and slumber for my back yard
The first passenger cars were this bad at the start, too :)
@@林振华-t4vyeah it’s a pretty uninteresting vehicle to the majority but when it’s being offered at £100 a month on a lease, it will have many people choosing it purely due to the stupidly cheap cost of ownership
Thanks for the review. It’s not been received very well at all here in Australia, where it starts off at $93,000… the same vehicle in NZ starts at $80,000 from what I can gather. Either way, it’s very expensive for what it is.
Your expressions when listening to the audio tracks are hilarious. It's similar to the face I would pull if I took a whiff of bad cheese hahah! Love your videos, please keep it up
18.6 kWh/100 km is obviously the maximum consumption (c-max) value the software can compute. 😂
It's to avoid buffer overflow. Maybe they should have used 16 bit integers :P
@@bjornnyland That beast is so thirsty the devs should have used unsigned long for the consumption variable
Test driven it in Norway, extremely shitty car, in my opinion atleast. Does not drive nice, charges dogslow, just a converted ICE truck and put a battery in it. Hope your testing the Ford F150 Lightning soon as well, as thatone is available in Norway as well.
‘Extremely shitty car’ - it’s a work truck, nothing more, nothing less. No-one buys this expecting car levels of comfort. A top spec US style pickup this is not.
Very interesting truck, thanks for reviewing I was looking for something along these lines but the market has very few offers
A note, the "infotainment" is somewhat similar to the one on the Dacia Spring, same for the gear selector and key "ignition". The Spring is also a budget SAIC product, might be a cost cutting measure.
About the high speed limitation, could be another thing - current limitation in the inverter. If the car is targeted for low speed high weight, you'd design the powertrain motor with a high BEMF, which would unfortunately penalise the high speed where the field weakening requirements would take precedence over the drive current. The fw precedence is a safety feature on all cars and a must have, but usually we design EV powertrains for a given expected duty cycle, and this is just how it turned out for this one, imagine like the motor is wound in a "low gear". It'd be nice to load up the truck and move it along, if designed right it should do way better than on otherwise high speed efficient car
Spring is built by Dongfeng, not SAIC.
@@EVsBeyond It is, thanks for correcting
The "spoilers" across the windows are called monsoons - they useful for diverting water away when the window is wound down
Can’t accuse the sound system of have too much base or mid range, as it has neither.
Would be cool if it was tested offroad and maybe loaded with weights, maybe you could borrow a pallet off bricks or cement/sand bags from some building store.
I see you Bjorn, reviewing a pick up truck to prepare for Cybertruck 😂
Cybertruck never comes to europe anyway.
wait what? it doesnt? why?@@RoteLars
Thank you. I had a good laugh! 🤣
Very basic vehicle, appropriate for a work truck. Low cost, able to transport a crew of 5 to a work site and back. No need for cruise control or long range if used in an urban setting. A rural work truck would need both range and cruise. For trucks like this, it would be great if Bjørn would test how it drives, and how much the rear suspension sags, with a full load. Maybe do consumption and range with a full load as well.
Please tell me this is a prototype.
It's feature packed and luxurious in comparison to hilux or lc79
Can you do 0mile test?
You should redo the test with tonneau cover over the truck bed because that has a significant impact on consumption.
I just get what I get in the press car.
What about testing if tailgate open vs. tailgate closed has an impact?
Range is good for ICE pickup conversion with low quality motor and low effort engineering
The greatest weaknesses are the lack of AWD, the short Range, the price and the low trailer weight. The other drawbacks are not so severe findings, because a pick up truck is für short and medium distances. I would not go long distances with this truck. But as second car it’s too expensive.
No trailer hitch, no navigation, incredibly sparse equipment otherwise. Very clearly just the base model equipped with a battery and electric motors.
The Maxus experience isn't really showing too much promise just yet.
A pure work truck would def need a trailer hitch, other than that the equipment is just fine.
As Bjørn mentioned, you can have a tow hitch on it, just this particular car didn't have it. Only 1000kg, though.
No trailer hitch on a truck. Is this a prototype?
It is available with a towbar, but can only tow 1000 kg max. Which would be fine for most of us on a normal passenger car, but not anywhere near good enough on a pickup.
@rolfadlergjerdsj1572 1000 kg is a bad joke for a ute. The M3 SR+ with RWD also has 1000 kg and it's just a passenger car
@@simonm1447 yeah, my point exactly.
Usually tow hitch is optional equipment you pay extra for
Sadly, Maxus does not really understand the buyer segment for pickups. No 4WD and only 1000kg trailer capacity excludes most pickup buyers.
Kudos to the old-school handbrake. Unfortunately charging port location. It will take two places for fast charging.
I dont know what im looking at. But I LIKE IT!
Tons of Ranger/Colorado/Tacoma vibes here. Something like this (although not from a Chinese automaker due to politics) would sell well here in the US.
You guys are already blessed with electric offerings from the big three…. Or is the f150 too big and you want something smaller?
@@dorsetengineering The other 2 aren't out yet, the Ram won't come out for some time in fact...........but yeah it's more about having something smaller, and also something simpler/cheaper.
@@godofdun Reading your original post again, I see now that you reference the smaller trucks. I think there is still an issue regarding the minimum weight for US trucks, so that they are actually categorised as a truck for the purposes of EPA fuel economy stuff. That might hinder the launch of the smaller truck in the US market. I believe for the rest of the world that we’ll see an electric Ranger/Amarok soon, built with the iD4 motor and battery.
@@dorsetengineering Are you referring to the implications of the "chicken tax"? That would certainly be an issue, yeah. They'd likely have to make them here, or at least do a final assembly workaround like Mercedes does with the sprinter van.
@@godofdun nope, referring to the CAFE stuff th-cam.com/video/azI3nqrHEXM/w-d-xo.html
I wonder how big the venn diagram is of people who "want a pickup truck" and "want their car to be an EV"
Big in small countries, small in big countries
This is an ICE truck that was converted to an EV. 16.36 you still see the gas cap holder just above the letters "C K". 🇨🇦
16:36
Wow, where do we start? So much needs to come from this category. SAIC is really missing a trick with restricting effectively FREE tech in cabin. These Pick-Ups really need to be 4WD though before they have arrived.
The truck in its domestic market is mainly for worker hoping between construction site. It does need awd.
3:14 I honestly still think this is the best way to start a car.
Some people will always be stuck in the past.
PI.
@@bjornnyland I'm not one of them.
Hi Bjorn will you also review the MIFA 9 - Holy Guacamoly
I need for towing GEMINI next Generation house segments 3500 kg towing.
I'm surprised there's no cruise control
That's not a spoiler, it's a bug deflector for the good
Like Xpeng did copy the Tesla instrument cluster, Maxxus did copy VW? 😅
I realy like it
To review this type of vehicle is not so important for Europe but in many other parts of the world they are the most sold type of vehicles.
That's why I also made a Thai video.
Enjoy your Thai vodeos... keep my language skills tuned.
Very important in the UK where the 1000kg pickup has favourable business tax rules
BYD will make proper small truck I suppose.
Come on Bj0rn it's a pickup truck (I had L200 & Hilux in the past) 🤣
New test! How many pizzas can carry?!? On the back seats!
At first I thought this is a Toyota Tundra!
EH must be Electric History?
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At the left of car scanner it's SOC on the right SOH.
But the SoH fluctuates between 100 and 90 depending on SoC...
@@bjornnyland SoH is state of health. If it's a new truck 90% is very concerning. It's battery degradation.
And 186 Wh/km in display is not less concerning 🤣
@@bjornnyland I feel not so healthy when my battery is empty too 😄
All BEV, 90 Kph. speed much better for range, cost per mile.
What's the last song of the sound test @ 12:30 ?
I have same sits in my suzuki vitara
This car must be a joke ?
Japanese or Chinese mid-sized trucks are built for commercial or industrial purposes. High towing, payload, durability, low price. Comfort and tech are of low priority.
It's unfair to expect them to match family car or suv on features, comfort or NVH.
Looks like Ford and Volkswagen did a Corporation 😂
Any Power Rangers Fans here? 😂
The window spoilers are for cigarette smokers so they can smoke in the rain.
Not good truck, was hoping wait for China electric in USA, SAIC needs to do better, like they do with MG brand.
ตลาดไทยถ้าจะเอามาขาย mg คงคิดหนัก
I am a blind subscriber could some other viewer fill me in on the range he was achieving?
Thanks
331 kilometres at 90 kilometres per hour
220 kilometres at 120 kilometres per hour
@@piscario75 thanks
Not a vehicle for me.
Well, even the ugly children are loved by their mothers ... 😀
In German you say „ein Chinakracher“.
A truly terrible EV Ute,
These are for sale in Australia, but they only sell a 57kwh battery version called the eT60 which SAIC sells under the LDV brand instead of Maxus.
The real kicker is the price, it's $92,000 before tax. Thats 624,000 Krone for the small battery version.
It has virtually no amenities and has less equipment than a base level Toyota Hilux.
The eT60/eT90 are just a joke.
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