Dacia Spring Cargo van weights

Can a compact SUV really cut it as a van? We're about to find out as we look at the complete Dacia Spring Cargo van weights including its payload and kerbweight.

The Dacia Spring Cargo is one of the cutest small electric vans you'll find on the market, but small doesn't tend to equal big payload or useful carrying capacity.

While it might put up a pretty decent show when you look at the Dacia Spring Cargo dimensions guide, does it offer the same bang for your buck when it comes to weight?

One thing that's for certain is that it's so little the kerbweight will really surprise you.

Dacia Spring Cargo weights overview

It might seem like an unusual choice to turn an affordable SUV into a van, but we think there's method in Dacia's madness. That's because the cheap and cheerful interior of the Spring Cargo lends itself nicely to a little city runabout.

The Spring Cargo would make an ideal package delivery car for a self employed courier, but it's not always going to be delivering secondhand clothes from Vinted, there might be the odd occasion where you've ordered some paving slabs and the poor old local courier finds themselves the unwitting delivery method. The big question then is can the Spring Cargo take the strain?

Dacia Spring Cargo kerb weight

Here's the big surprise we were talking about, because this one schocked us. That's because not many cars weigh in at under one tonne. We're really struggling to think of anything in the last two decades that isn't a hand built, lightweight sports car, or a utterly mad quadricycle like the Citroen Ami Cargo.

The Spring Cargo Electric has an utterly suprising kerb weight of just 938kg. That's less than the amount you can legally carry in the back of a pick-up truck and less than half what you'll get if you were to buy a high payload van over 3.5 tonnes.

Dacia Spring Cargo Electric gross vehicle weight

With such a tiny overall weight it's not going to have been plated particulalry high, so you'd be right in thinking that the Spring Cargo Electric's GVW or gross vehicle weight will be really low.

In fact, the Spring Cargo Electric is plated as a 1.3-tonne van, with a total gross of 1,315kg.

Dacia Spring Cargo Electric payload

Which such a low gross vehicle weight, you've guessed it, there's not a lot of payload either.

The Dacia Spring Cargo gets an overall payload of just 370kg. However, for the sort of work it's likely to do that's actually probably more than sufficient.

We're thinking you'd comfortably be able to pack this thing with packages long before the back axle starts to sag and you get anywhere near its maximum payload capacity.

Axle weights

It's important to note that a small little van like the Dacia Spring Electric could easily be overloaded if you weren't careful.

The rear axle in particular is only rated to 411kg. That means that if you were to put the entire 370kg behind the rear axle (right on the boot lid, I don't know maybe you've visited the local church roof to generously dispose of it) then you'd likely be overloaded.

In reality, you're probably not going to have any problems, and the front axle weight is much higher at 527kg.