We’ve driven Ford’s other electric workhorse: the 2022 E-Transit

Three Ford transits of different roof heights parked next to each other. One is silver, one is red, one is blue.

SONOMA, Calif. —The US commercial pickup market is often dominated by the many variations of Ford’s F-series. But since 2014, Ford has had an alternative for commercial drivers who prefer something more van-like. That’s when the company started building Transit vans in Kansas City, Missouri. Since then, Ford has built a million of them.

Now, Ford has created an electric version of the Transit—or rather I should say versions, since the E-Transit comes in eight different body styles, just like its dinosaur-powered predecessor. In fact, the ladder chassis is identical, which means that the E-Transit is entirely compatible with the vast ecosystem associated with upfitters out there. Ford says in order to think beyond last-mile delivery vans, which only account for 10 percent of the commercial van market—a not-so subtle dig at startup rivals , perhaps.

From this distance, you'd be hard-pressed to see the E-Transit from some other Transit, and that method any upfitter know what for do with it.

From this distance, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the E-Transit from any other Transit, and that means any upfitter will know what to do with it. (credit: Ford)

And Ford’s not just here to sell your business an electric van, either. The company has come up with the whole plug-and-play telematics solution which will manage not just E-Transits but any other vehicles, electric or internal combustion, Ford or otherwise.

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