So, out of sheer curiosity, I thought I’d get around to trying Citroën ë-SpaceTourer Business Edition M 50kWh, and not just because it’s got a very long name with a random accent on the e, which means it should be pronounced “eh”, like the e in “bet”. Which is correct in Citroën, but not in ë-SpaceTourer, so I can’t be bothered with it. It’s like those Gü puddings, I reckon, or Häagen-Dazs ice cream, a purely marketing thing, and I’m not having it. So it’s e-SpaceTourer.
Anyway, I was bumbling around in this all-electric (not all-ëlectric) battery-powered nine-seater multi-purpose vehicle, pretending to be a real man in charge of a commercial vehicle, and my mind eventually turned to what the “target demographic” for the e-SpaceTourer might be. Who, in other words, needs a version of a van with nine seats with a range of about 135 to 196 miles (round town)? That’s according to the official WLTP figures, by the way: the excellent ev-database.org puts it as low as 95 miles in cold weather on the highway, but 165 miles on a nice warm summer’s day – such things make a difference in all-battery vehicles.
