Toyota Proace City Electric L1H1

Toyota Proace City Electric Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, Electric 50kWh Auto

The Toyota Proace City Electric Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, Electric 50kWh Auto has 206.92 miles of official range, a 759kg payload and 100kW rapid charging. List price £30,628.33 excluding VAT.

Electric · small van · L1 H1 · on sale

Last verified 16 October 2026Download spec sheet (PDF)

Dimensions

Load length (at floor)	1,817 mm^[1]
Load width (maximum)	1,630 mm^[2]
Load height (maximum)	1,200 mm^[2]
Overall length	4,403 mm^[3]
Overall height	1,880 mm^[3]

Price

List price (excluding VAT)	£30,628^[4]
Zero emission van grant	Eligible^[5]

Battery and range

Usable battery	Not yet verified
Gross battery	50 kWh^[2]
Official range	206.92 miles^[6] (WLTP)
Energy use	0.3 kWh/mile (WLTP)^[2]
Test cycle	WLTP^[6]

Load

Gross vehicle weight	2,450 kg^[2]
Payload	759 kg^[2]
Load volume	3.8 m³^[2]
Towing capacity (braked)	750 kg^[2]

Charging

AC charging (max)	11 kW^[2]
DC rapid charging (peak)	100 kW^[7]
Rapid charge time	Rapid Charging 10-80%: 30 mins (approx)^[6]

Ownership

Warranty	Up to 10 years/100,000 miles Toyota Warranty: 3-year manufacturer warranty plus a further 12 months/10,000 miles with each qualifying main dealer service^[8]

Toyota Proace City Electric L1H1 price changes

Toyota cut the list price of the Proace City Electric Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, Electric 50kWh Auto by £479 to £30,628 excluding VAT in the price list THRIVE recorded on 13 October 2026.

Date	Was	Now	Change	Source
13 October 2026 (recorded)	£31,108	£30,628	-£479	Toyota GB

List prices excluding VAT, from the manufacturer's own UK price lists. A date marked "recorded" is the day THRIVE took in a new price list that carried no date of its own.

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Other Toyota Proace City versions

Version	Fuel	Payload	Range / economy	Price ex VAT
Toyota Proace City L1H1 diesel	Diesel	990 kg	52.3 mpg	£24,753
Toyota Proace City L2H1 diesel	Diesel	936 kg	51.3 mpg	£25,378
Toyota Proace City Electric L2H1	Electric	681 kg	204.43 miles	£31,253

Every length, roof and fuel side by side, with a configurator, on the Toyota Proace City page.

Electric or diesel?

How the Toyota Proace City Electric Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, Electric 50kWh Auto compares with Toyota Proace City Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, 1.5 Diesel (100hp) Manual, the same body with the other powertrain, for a typical working day.

Miles a day: 100

Overnight chargingAt a depotAt the driver's homePublic chargers only

Electric could work: check the points below

Range. 100 miles a day sits comfortably inside a planning range of about 145 miles, so an overnight charge covers the day.
Payload. The electric version carries 231kg less (759kg against 990kg).
Towing. Braked towing: 750kg electric, 1,000kg diesel.
Energy. Charging at a small-business depot costs about 10p a mile against 14.4p for diesel: roughly £1,100 a year less at 25,000 miles.
Price. The electric version lists for £3,375 more after the £2,500 zero emission van and truck grant, which the energy saving covers in about 3.1 years.

When the diesel is the more practical choice

Loads that use the last 231kg of the diesel's payload.
Towing more than 750kg.

How this is worked out

Planning range is 70% of the official 206.92-mile WLTP figure, allowing for winter weather and a full load.
Energy use 0.35 kWh a mile: THRIVE's typical figure for an electric van (this van's usable battery is not verified).
Diesel 165.48p a litre excluding VAT (DESNZ, week of 2 November 2026); the Toyota Proace City Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, 1.5 Diesel (100hp) Manual's official 52.3mpg.
Electricity: 28.59p/kWh at a small-business depot (DESNZ, excluding VAT), 26.32p at home as the driver pays (Ofgem price cap), 65.83p on public rapid chargers (Zapmap, excluding VAT).
250 working days a year. List prices exclude VAT and options; running costs exclude servicing, insurance, tax and residual values.

Indicative only: a guide to whether electric is worth a closer look, not a quote. For whole-fleet costs see fleet charging costs and van break-even.

Electric and diesel compared: L1 H1

	Electric (this van)	Diesel
Spec	Toyota Proace City Electric Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, Electric 50kWh Auto	Toyota Proace City Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, 1.5 Diesel (100hp) Manual
List price (ex VAT)	£30,628	£24,753
Payload	759 kg	990 kg
Load volume	3.8 m³	3.8 m³
Range / economy	206.92 miles	52.3 mpg
Towing (braked)	750 kg	1,000 kg

Both at a typical fleet specification, from each manufacturer's UK price list; sources are on each van's page. For running costs per mile, see the Fleet Cost Index and van break-even.

Alternatives worth considering

Direct competitorKia PV5 Cargo Essential 51.5kWh L1/H1 3Dr 2-Seat£3,273 cheaper, 27.919999999999987 miles less official range.
Direct competitorRenault Kangoo Van E-Tech LL21 E-Tech Advance RC Panel Van MY26.5£778 cheaper, 0.4m³ more load space, 35.91999999999999 miles less official range.
Combustion alternativeVolkswagen Caddy Cargo Maxi C20 Maxi Commerce 2.0 TDI 102PS 6-speed manualDiesel, 49.6mpg official, £3,108 cheaper.
Direct competitorCitroën ë-Berlingo Van Panel Van XL Electric 136hp Automatic Enterprise-Plus£723 cheaper, 68kg less payload.

Chosen from published small vans in the THRIVE database with a similar load area; reasons compare verified figures only.

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Sources

8 documents: Toyota UK, Toyota (GB) PLC, Toyota GB

Toyota UK, retrieved 5 October 2026. Supports: load length (at floor). Official toyota.co.uk Proace City model page, key-figures panel (undated, live 5 Oct 2026). Toyota 'Compact' = L1, 'Medium' = L2 (configurator: 'Icon ... Ply Lining' L1H1VP_5D / 'Icon L2 ... Ply Lining' L2H1VP_5D). Label is 'Load Length without Smart Cargo' with no floor/height qualifier (single unlabelled load length, used per brief); the brochure (Oct 2024) p12 '2-3 SEATS (Load capacity & deck length)' plan views and p18 'Deck Length (mm) 1817 2167', and Toyota's configurator data ('Deck Length (mm)'), give the same. Electric coverage, rule 4(c): the panel gives separate 'Max Payload (Electric)' and 'Max Payload (Diesel)' rows, so its unlabelled load-length rows apply to both.
Toyota (GB) PLC, retrieved 16 October 2026. Supports: load width (maximum), load height (maximum), gross battery, energy use, gross vehicle weight, payload, load volume, towing capacity (braked), ac charging (max). Toyota Proace City Technical Specifications (media.toyota.co.uk 250310), p2 LOAD AREA DIMENSIONS, one figure for L1 and L2, all powertrains; labelled maximum.
Toyota UK, retrieved 5 October 2026. Supports: overall length, overall height. Cited document is Toyota's configurator feed (texus.toyota-europe.com, GB/en) that toyota.co.uk's Proace City specifications page reads: GetTechnicalSpecifications for car 3b538534 = 'Icon 55kWh Ply Lining' (L1H1VP_5D, Fuel Type Electric, per getCarModel for token e67c40fb), specific to the electric van (rule 4b). Feed cited because no electric-qualifying document carries 4403: the brochure's p18 exterior table has no electric heading or rows; its p12 table (which does have EV payload rows) says 4401. Electric-qualifying sources tie 4401 v 4403 and the figure stated for the exact named version is 4403; across all Toyota sources 4403 is also the majority. NOTE: the configurator lists the current UK electric as 55kWh; our van name says 50kWh (brochure-era battery); same body.
Toyota GB, retrieved 13 October 2026. Supports: list price (excluding vat).
GOV.UK, retrieved 21 September 2026. Supports: zero emission van grant. Listed under the 'Small vans' plug-in van grant eligible-vehicles list, retrieved 2026-09-21.
Toyota (GB) PLC, retrieved 16 October 2026. Supports: official range, test cycle, rapid charge time. toyota.co.uk Proace City Electric page (the quote already on file); stored 207 was rounded when range was a whole-number column.
Toyota UK, retrieved 21 September 2026. Supports: dc rapid charging (peak). From a 2022 UK press kit; no newer Toyota UK document restates the DC peak kW figure explicitly, but the current live configurator (30 mins, 10-80%) corroborates the same charging speed, so the 100kW peak was treated as still current.
Toyota UK, retrieved 21 September 2026. Supports: warranty. This is Toyota's standard UK warranty programme (Toyota Relax), applicable range-wide and not model-year specific.

About these figures

Specifications verified: 16 October 2026, against the manufacturer documents listed under Sources.
Latest source added: 16 October 2026, the last time a figure on this page was added or corrected.

Specifications vary by trim, engine, battery, length and roof height; these are for the Toyota Proace City Electric Icon Ply Lining, Compact Panel Van, Electric 50kWh Auto as named, a typical fleet specification. Range is the official WLTP combined figure; real-world range in winter or fully loaded will be lower. Check the manufacturer's current price list before ordering. If a figure here has changed, tell us on our corrections page.