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Electric vs. Diesel: Opel Vivaro-e vs. MB Vito CDI - it's time!
The biggest surprise of this very first comparison between today's and tomorrow's propulsion technology occurs on the scale: The recently thoroughly renewed Mercedes Vito 119 CDI "long" version goes off the scales at 2,775 kilograms. Shortly thereafter, the Opel Vivaro-e, also in the medium-length version, which has the large 75 kWh battery: at 2,815 kilograms. Excuse me?! An electrically driven transporter with a full-size energy storage under the cargo area weighs hardly more than a conventionally driven diesel van? Either the Vito is very heavy or the Vivaro-e is generally very light. Probably both are true.
After all, the Swabian compact van, which is not fundamentally known as a lightweight, did not become any lighter with the facelift. Especially not as a rear-wheel drive model, which is about 50 kilos heavier. Here, the front-wheel drive version with Renault's drive package might be the better, or at least slightly lighter, choice. After all, the Vito now has to carry not only the diesel tank but also a larger AdBlue tank with a usable 25 liters, as well as a lot of exhaust cleaning technology that aims to expel pollutants from the new 2.0-liter CDI engine OM654.
The Chemical Factory Carries Weight
It's not entirely wrong to speak of a veritable "chemical factory" being necessary to make a modern diesel truly low-emission. The next stage, Euro 7, is already looming on the horizon and will likely make hybridization respectively indispensable to further reduce CO2 emissions, i.e., consumption. Of course, diesel will never be emission-free and, in principle, it cannot be. One should not harbour too much hope for synfuels, synthetic fuels, either: The production is too energy-intensive, and the price would be too expensive.
Biggest Advantage: The Electric Vehicle Can Be Operated Climate-Neutrally
Which brings us to the greatest and ultimately decisive advantage of the electric drive in regard to the goal of climate neutrality in transportation: It can be operated emission-free, unlike diesel. The prerequisite is, of course, that one charges using green electricity. To be fair, even Daimler was already ahead of Opel with the electric variant eVito, albeit in homeopathic quantities and more in the style of an extended field trial. Now both models are fully electric and available "in real series" from dealers.
Price Question: The Premium Makes It All Work
However, the Opel starts at a fighting price of 35,650 euros net, while the eVito (incidentally, like the VW ABT e-Transporter T6.1.) starts at 44,990 euros, with a significantly smaller 41 kWh battery, while the base model Vivaro-e already has a 50-kWh storage (45 kWh net). The tested version rolled out with the "long-distance ready" 75-kWh storage (70 kWh net), which adds an extra 5,000 euros net and should be well-considered, especially for CEP services with city-radius. Finally, a 100-kW CCS-DC fast charger is standard, which can bring the 50-kWh storage back to 80 percent capacity within half an hour during a break.
Read the complete comparison with all results and measurements in the next issue of VM, the sister magazine LOGISTRA and our newspaper Transport!
Translated automatically from German.
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