{"id":11541,"date":"2019-03-15T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:30:31","slug":"europcar-aims-high-with-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/11541","title":{"rendered":"Europcar van fleet update adds electric power and luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/citroen-berlingo-ev-l2-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Citroen Berlingo L2 electric van\" class=\"wp-image-9690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/citroen-berlingo-ev-l2-1-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/citroen-berlingo-ev-l2-1-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/citroen-berlingo-ev-l2-1-sm-624x417.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/citroen-berlingo-ev-l2-1-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>The Citroen Berlingo electric van in L2 (long) wheelbase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know that once in a while, I&#8217;m actually right about something. Back in July last year I predicted that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/11285\">van hire companies may soon need electric van fleets<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward eight months, and I&#8217;ve just learned that Europcar has started buying Citroen Berlingo Electric vans for use in urban areas, especially London Congestion Charging zone. When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/11531\">London Ultra-Low Emissions Zone comes into force in April 2019<\/a>, electric vans will qualify for a 100% discount. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside this change, the company has also ordered 100 new Citroen Berlingo vans in Enterprise specification. This high-end spec includes the kind of equipment list that&#8217;s more usually found on cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standard spec for the Berlingo Enterprise includes air conditioning, rear parking sensors, cruise control, speed limiter, automatic electronic parking brake, alarm, one-touch electric windows, heated and electrically-operated folding door mirrors, front fog lights with cornering function and tyre pressure monitoring.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europcar says that private rental customers increasingly expect the comfort and convenience features of a modern car. Meanwhile business customers, who increasingly use rental vans for long periods, want to ensure that their drivers are well-supported and able to do their job comfortably and efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europcar goes electric with the Citroen Berling Electric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[2175,63,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}