Space filler
The European car market may soon be home to an electric MPV. We are talking about the LEVC L380: a space giant from an already well-known manufacturer!
Volvo’s Chinese parent company Geely has a huge brand portfolio. In addition to Volvo, Lynk & Co, Zeekr and Lotus, it also has unknown brands such as Geometry and Radar under its wing. London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) is also part of Geely’s brand base. You probably know LEVC from the TX, also supplied in the Netherlands: the modern interpretation of the London taxis of yesteryear. LEVC wants to transform itself into an electric volume brand and at the end of last year it released the first photos of a gigantic electric MPV into the world. The space giant, initially called Xspace but now called L380, will first be launched in China, but will probably also have European asphalt under its electrically driven wheels.
The LEVC L380 was initially called Xspace.
LEVC itself already indicated that the L380 will be launched in China this year and that it will also come to ‘other international markets’ later. AutoWeek has indications that the LEVC L380 will also be delivered in Europe. From the database of the European patent office, AutoWeek has unearthed an extensive set of brand new patent drawings of the model published on May 15. We are not much wiser from the images themselves, as the appearance of the L380 was already known.
The LEVC L380 is a 5.32-metre electric MPV that comes in six- and eight-seater configurations. The space giant has a wheelbase of 3.19 meters, weighs approximately 2,800 kilos and is available with a 73 kWh LFP battery and with 102 kWh and 120 kWh NMC batteries. The electric range of the largest variant should be about 600 kilometers. It is striking for an electric model from a Geely brand that the L380 will not be placed on a platform that you are already familiar with from one or more models of the Geely brands. Unlike electric MPVs such as the Volvo EM90 and the Zeekr 009, it is not on the SEA1 platform, but on LEVC’s own new ‘Space Oriented Architecture’ basis, a piece of modular hardware with the somewhat unfortunate abbreviation SOA in the Netherlands.
Do you see room in the Netherlands for an electric colossus like this? Why or why not?
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl