Ford E-Transit Courier review

Make and model: Ford E-Transit Courier Limited
Description: Small electric panel van
Price range: £28,000 (before options)

Ford says: “The all-new E-Transit Courier is a clean-sheet, all-electric compact vehicle designed to bring enhanced connectivity and productivity to businesses.”
We say: The E-Transit Courier is an excellent small van which proves really easy to use in daily duties, so long as they don’t require the clocking up of too many miles.

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Introduction

Ford’s electrification of its LCV line-up has reached its smallest offering with the launch in 2025 of the E-Transit Courier – first EV version is based on the second generation of the Courier, which first appeared in 2023 with sharper styling and an updated design over the original launched in 2014.

The E-Transit Courier is not that much smaller than the Transit Connect – which you can’t buy in fully electric form – but it is a distinctly different vehicle. It’s made in Ford’s Romania plant, which also produces the Puma crossover, and the two models share a close relationship – under the van body is the chassis of the Puma, the Courier being Ford’s only van based on a car.

Who is this van aimed at?

The E-Transit Courier will appeal to any business needing a compact van, particularly in urban environments where being able to easily make one’s way through traffic-choked streets is essential. For last-mile delivery services it could prove a perfect fit, particularly as its capacity is a distinct improvement over its predecessor.

Who won’t like it?

Those who need a compact van but need to clock up several hundred miles a day will be less drawn to the E-Transit Courier, the vehicle’s limited range being rather restrictive.

What do you get for your money?

There are two trim levels available, dubbed Trend and Limited – the entry-level Leader grade of the traditional Courier is not offered to electric customers. Standard equipment is also generally more extensive than on petrol or diesel Couriers – all Trend variants for example get climate control, keyless entry and a natty light bar on the grille.

Limited variants gain powered door mirrors in the same colour as the body, upgraded seat upholstery, heating on the seats and steering wheel, more adjustment on the seats, automatic lights and wipers and 17-inch alloy wheels. 

All electric Couriers come with a 12-inch central touchscreen, which again is an improvement on the 8-inch version of the combustion-engined versions. Ford’s connectivity system, Sync 4 includes its own navigation if one doesn’t want to employ Google Maps or such like through the standard-fit Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone compatibility. Our Limited test vehicle also has a wireless phone charger.

Fleet managers will be pleased to hear all the connectivity needed to make use of the Ford digital fleet management system is built into the e-Transit Courier as standard, and they will be equally gratified that one aspect in which this model certainly scores is in its safety specification.

While the specific electric model has not been crash-tested by Euro NCAP, the Courier range went through the test in 2025 and came away with a top five-star rating – the testers commented on its “all-round excellent performance,” highlighting that almost all of the extensive safety specification comes as standard, and added that it “easily met” the criteria for a top rating.

That standard specification includes all the major ADAS electronic driver aids, parking sensors front and rear and a very useful reversing camera.  

Prices for the e-Transit Courier start at £27,000, which is around £6,600 more than the equivalent petrol Courier. The Limited version that we are testing starts at £28,000. Note that these prices do not include the Government’s plug-in van grant, which at the time of writing (December 2025) cuts £2,500 of the cost of a E-Transit Courier.

What can you get in it?

The first electric Courier benefits from the same improvements over the first-generation range as its combustion-engined siblings, crucially in its load space, with increased volume and payload.

In figures there are 2.9 cubic metres of volume available in the load bay, around 25% more than in the first-generation Courier. The loadspace measures 1.8 metres long with just over 1.2 metres of width and height.

The improved width between the wheelarches on the latest Courier allows it to accommodate two Europallets, so long as what is on them does not exceed the maximum payload – 698kg on the entry-level Trend version and 683kg on the Limited, due to its additional equipment. These figures are more than the combustion-engined Courier, though the electric model can only tow a braked trailer of up to 750kg.

Useful touches abound – the front seat folds flat and a door in the bulkhead opens to reveal a load-through facility which is a full seat width, so for example accommodating a ladder. Employ this and the maximum load length increases to just under 2.7 metres. The Limited also gets a three-pin plug socket in the loading bay.

There is also an extra storage area under the bonnet, where the traditional Transit Courier would site its engine. The ‘Frunk’ is most useful for storing charging cables and keeping them out of the load bay.

The Courier comes as standard with twin rear doors and a single sliding side door – a second side door can be specified as a £500 option. Not immediately obvious until you see it is the fact that the rear ones are of different sizes, that on the near-side being wider. You have to open it before the other one which actually is quite handy as you can access much of the load bay by opening only one rear door.  

What is the E-Transit Courier like inside?

The electric Courier looks very much like its combustion siblings on the outside but very different in its cabin, with a bespoke dash layout based around two digital screens.

The cabin has only two seats and therefore lots of space, particularly as there is no gear selector occupying the space between the two – the direction of progress is selected via a stalk on the steering wheel.

The seats are comfortable, though the adjustability in the driver’s seat is a little limited and taller occupants might find it a little cosy.

There are plenty of storage spaces dotted about the cabin, particularly in the centre which includes two handy cupholders, while the 12-inch touchscreen is high-mounted and easy to access and see. It includes a line of essential buttons at its base for such items as air conditioning and window clearing, while there are also physical buttons on the steering wheel.   

The driver gets their own digital display providing essential information such as speed and battery capacity (and therefore range) and this again is easy to read.

What’s under the bonnet?

Powertrain choices for the E-Transit Courier are simple because there is only one, a single electric motor mounted on the front axle and producing the equivalent of 136hp, fed by a 43kWh battery mounted under the load floor.

The official range of 181 miles pales against rivals, but limiting the battery size does enable that payload figure, impressive for a van of this size.

The e-Courier can accommodate 100kW DC fast charging, which will take the battery from 10 to 80% in 23 minutes. The not-huge battery means less time charging at home too.

What’s the Ford E-Transit Courier like to drive?

A week with the Ford E-Transit Courier showed it to be a thoroughly easy vehicle to live with, an LCV that really does drive like a car. A comfortable ride, precise steering with the feel one doesn’t necessarily expect of an EV, and performance that is perfectly adequate without the rocket-ship acceleration which again many EVs have, combine to make driving this van a pleasurable experience – using one for a daily workload would be fatigue free.

The one disappointment is that range figure – an official 181 miles typically means less than 150 in real-world use at a time when other electric LCVs are routinely knocking on the door of 200 miles between charges.

One can understand the dilemma for Ford – a bigger battery means more weight and therefore a lower payload. But battery technology is advancing rapidly and we would hope this would be an early target for the first facelift.

Still, a return journey from mid Wales to Luton, while perhaps not the obvious typical duty for the vehicle, gave us plenty of opportunity to check out its charging capabilities. Its rapid charging ability is impressive, your reviewer hardly having time to finish his Greggs sausage roll and latte before the app was telling him that the battery had reached 80%. 

The compact dimensions are a boon too; you may be able to get plenty in this van but it will still comfortably squeeze into car-sized spaces – multi-storey car parks for example.

Verdict

The Ford E-Transit Courier is a very good small electric van, ticking almost all the boxes in terms of quality, practicality and performance – in fact it’s distinctively superior to the petrol or diesel Courier in every aspect save price and range.

That range is the one significant drawback – well under 200 miles in today’s market seems a bit out-of-date already, rather restricting its appeal to any employer needing their vehicles to clock up a significant daily distance.

However on such duties as last-mile deliveries in urban environments it will easily provide a day’s work, and the rapid recharging is also a boon.

With the considerable backup of the Ford Pro productivity services, which include a specific suite of aids to smooth the path of businesses looking to go electric, the E-Transit Courier could provide a very good first experience of making the switch.    

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