This funky delivery quadricycle is built by rally champions

It’s not just the glorious P25 Impreza restomod and the dune-bashing, Baja tackling Hunter that Prodrive is building these days. Turns out it’s also working on things that are a little more… practical.

This is the Evolv – an all-new ‘last mile electric quadricycle’ that comes after a collaboration between Prodrive Advanced Technology and Astheimer Design. As you might have guessed from the company names, it was penned by Astheimer and engineered by Prodrive.

But what actually is it? Well, it’s an L7e category electric quadricycle with a 20kWh battery and around 100 miles of range. It’s 3.24m long, just 1.45m wide and weighs 850kg, but it has 4m³ of load space. We’re told that’s double the volume of other L7e vehicles and puts it in a similar carrying class to mid-size vans. Not bad. In fact, 60 per cent of the Evolv’s total volume is empty space for carrying stuff.

Prodrive Advanced Technology and Astheimer Design have founded a new company to market the Evolv, and ‘ELM Mobility’ plans to put this little delivery van into production in the UK in 2028.

The van you see above is the first working demonstrator, and it’ll fit a 1.6m tall Euro pallet with a 300kg payload in the main load area accessed via the side doors. It’ll also fit a 1.2m tall Euro pallet with a 200kg payload into the secondary load area, which is accessed via the rear barn doors.

Plus, Prodrive engineered the Evolv to meet N1 (small van) passive safety crash standards rather than just the L7e standards. That means it should be safer for the centrally seated driver in an accident. Should an accident occur, the fared in headlights are less likely to be damaged and the body panels are modular so that they’re easily replaced.

Should be fairly nimble in town too – the Evolv’s turning circle is just 7.8m (a London taxi’s is 7.6m). Top speed is around 50mph, and it’ll charge from 20-80 per cent in less than two hours.

An optional pallet truck capable of lifting up to 300kg will be available to stow on board too, and prices could apparently start around the £25,000 mark.

Not quite as cool as the P25, then, but fairly interesting nonetheless.