Chinese electric van brand Farizon has unveiled the largest version of its Farizon SV at the 2025 CV Show. The new L3/H3 variant underlines the vehicle’s strategy to straddle the medium van and large van sectors, and completes the line-up of five body variants available on this model. At the same time, it has confirmed that the AA will act as its aftersales partner, providing customers with 200 service centre locations and giving them access to 100 mobile service vans.
The Farizon SV is one of several new purpose-built electric vans at the CV Show, which has also seen the UK debuts of the Kia PV5 and the full selection of new electric Renault and Flexis vans. You can already read our Farizon SV review, however, and find out how we think it compares to the likes of the Ford E-Transit Custom to the Renault Master E-Tech. That last being the 2025 Parkers Van of the Year.
The Farizon SV is imported by Jameel Motors, an automotive distribution business that’s also new to the UK – though successful in a number of other global markets. With SV apparently standing for SuperVan, should the establishment be worried? Speaking at the CV Show, UK head of marketing and sales operations for Jameel Motors, Kate McLaren, said they were ‘confident it will become a leading brand.’
Why should I care about the Farizon SV?
This is a ground-up electric van design – something that’s still relatively unusual. But not only that, it also incorporates drive-by-wire technology. Combining these two elements should result in maximised efficiency. As such, Farizon says it’s developed ‘the world’s most advanced eLCV platform’, labelled GXAM.
Farizon also says the SV has been designed and engineered specifically for Europe (although it is also sold in China). And though it looks a bit funny, Farizon claims an impressive 0.29 coefficient of drag – even high-tech modern rivals such as the latest Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (0.32Cd) and Volkswagen Crafter (0.33Cd) can’t match that – helping it to cut through the air more easily.
Meanwhile, the ‘cell-to-pack’ battery design is so well incorporated into the structure that the loading floor is just over half a metre from the ground. This reduces step-in height and increases cargo space by 16% compared with a conventional design.
At the same time, the drive-by-wire system – more commonly found in high-end cars, this reduces the need for a mechanical link between some components – is said to increase driving range by 5%, reduce stopping distance by 10%, and make the van feel more agile thanks to its greater steering response. Energy recuperation is stronger, too.
All told, the various weight-saving measures – including the drive-by-wire as well as the aluminium and steel construction – reduce overall bulk by 8%.
What’s the driving range of the Farizon SV?
There are three battery pack options: 67kWh, 83kWh and 106kWh. The first two are available in the L1 and L2 body length variants, with the L3 model available with the latter pairing. Maximum driving range is 247 miles per charge according to WLTP figures; in urban-only driving, this could go up to as much as 342 miles, but take both distances with a pinch of salt.
It’s the suggestion that differing battery chemistry could be offered for different duty cycles – short-hop/ stop-start operators versus the requirements of longer-distance, for example – that would really be innovative here. As ever, an eight-year battery warranty is offered, regardless.
How big and practical is it?
In addition to the low loading floor, the Farizon SV also offers the prospect of a panel van body design that doesn’t require a B-pillar.
This creates a vast side opening between the sliding door and the front passenger door, something no other vanmaker has yet been able to offer in the UK. (There are some left-hand drive vehicles in Europe that have a similar feature.) How useful it will be when a hard bulkhead is also required is another matter, but it’s an interesting detail that may appeal to some trades and converters.
The body sizing runs from the smallest L1/H1 version – which is just 1.98m tall – to the largest L3/H3 variant. Load capacity starts at 6.9 cubic metres and goes up to 13.0 cubic metres. The first figure is slightly larger than an L2/H1 Transit Custom while the latter figure matches the mid-sized Master E-Tech. L1/H2, L2/H1 and L2/H2 models are also offered.
All Farizon SV models have a 3.5-tonne gross vehicle weight, making them available to all drivers without the need to jump through any 4.25-tonne electric van derogation hoops. Given this, payload ratings from 1,035kg to 1,350kg are rather impressive – even the biggest version with the largest battery can carry over a tonne.
All can tow up to 2.0 tonnes.
What’s the cabin like?
In the manner of many modern vehicles, the instrument cluster is a simple digital screen, with a larger one in the centre of the cabin providing infotainment functions.
A number of physical controls – including for the air-conditioning – have been retained, however. Something we’re very pleased to see as these should make the van easier to operate on the move.
Where does the Farizon brand come from?
Farizon was established in 2016 as the ‘new energy’ commercial vehicle business of Geely Auto, with Helen McLaren keen to stress that it is ‘not a start-up’. Geely is China’s largest privately owned automotive group, and includes Volvo, Lotus and LEVC among its other brands.
This is a vast, well-funded and very ambitious company, and Carroll says ‘Farizon is in it for the long-haul.’ It will take some time to get going, of course, but the brand wants to be among the leaders of the UK’s electric van market ‘by the end of the decade.’
Supporting this, distributor Jameel Motors is in the process of setting up a traditional franchise dealer network for the Farizon in the UK, though direct fleet sales and its own flagship dealer site in the London area are also on the cards. The goal is a ‘national and consistent level of service from day one.’
At the CV Show it confirmed the AA as the service, maintenance, repair and roadside assistance partner for the Farizon SV, and promised 24-hour parts delivery via DHL. DHL is also providing the parts warehousing, which we’re assured already has substantial stock of everything from ‘wing mirrors to entire batteries’.
The launch of Farizon is also the launch of Jameel Motors in Britain, which is specifically setting up here to import and sell Farizon models. Jameel has lots of relevant new market entry experience; it currently works with 20 brands across eight countries, and has its own ambitions to expand significantly in Europe.
What will the Farizon SV cost?
Prices start at £53,000 plus VAT. Which is quite a lot for a no-name van, even an electric one. Farizon says you get around £3,000’s worth of standard kit over and above equivalent rival models. And being an electric van, you will be able to get a discount via the Plug-in Van Grant.
The SV is covered by a four-year / 120,000-mile warranty on the van body, with the electric drivetrain and batteries covered for eight years / 160,000 miles.
Basic specification includes all the relevant Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) now required by European law. Farizon says it has carried out vigorous crash-testing, too, something that missing B-pillar surely makes rather interesting.
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