WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

This month: the e-Berlingo’s slightly titchy battery

Sam Burnett Someone at Stellantis seems to have made the policy decision to cap battery sizes at 50kWh across the board – take a look, that’s as big as you get with the firm’s EVs. Presumably there’s a spreadsheet that’s balancing the optimum trade-off between usable range and the weight of lugging the things around. And I don’t mind a smaller range myself, especially in a smaller car and especially if it makes for a more efficient drive. Driving on your own is one thing, but as you start to load a car with passengers and stuff it has an obvious impact on your mileage. The Berlingo is a comfortable, practical family car that positively invites you to fill it up, and its whole remit is to make life that…

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