{"id":195,"date":"2008-09-04T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-08-12T19:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T19:01:47","slug":"green-van-hire-gets-easy-with-northgate-vehicle-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/195","title":{"rendered":"Green Van Hire Gets &#8216;Easy&#8217; with Northgate Vehicle Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions are undoubtedly the big issues of the moment for most van owners.<\/p>\n<p>While motorway warriors might already enjoy decent mpg figures, historically it has never been so easy for vans used on urban work to reduce their fuel consumption. Idling time &#8211; whether at traffic lights or in queues &#8211; wastes terrific amounts of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes-Benz ECO-Start system is designed to address this and one of the first vehicles to benefit from it is the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/166\" target=\"_self\">award-winning new Sprinter range<\/a>. ECO-Start is now being fitted as standard to all 4-cylinder, manual Sprinters and it has now made its way into the rental market, courtesy of leading van hire company Northgate Vehicle Hire.<\/p>\n<p>The Northgate name might not be familiar to you, but one of the companies they supply with hire vehicles is easyVan &#8211; and the new ECO-Start Sprinters are being trialled at three easyVan branch locations.<\/p>\n<p>The trial locations are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/southampton\">Southampton<\/a> &#8211; Delta Vehicle Hire<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/birmingham\">Birmingham<\/a> &#8211; Cartrux Vehicle Hire<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/bristol\">Bristol<\/a> &#8211; Bristol &amp; West Vehicle Hire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mercedes state that the ECO-Start system can reduce fuel consumption by up to 10% &#8211; but trials in Commercial Motor and Motor Transport magazines have produced far bigger savings &#8211; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtransport.com\/blogs\/big-lorry-blog\/2008\/09\/green-van-rental-what-better-w.html\" target=\"_blank\">up to 30%, according to BigLorryBlog<\/a> (penned by Commercial Motor editor Brian Weatherley).<\/p>\n<p>I expect that the ECO-Start system will be a big hit with fleet and rental buyers &#8211; once it proves its long-term reliability and van drivers get used to the idea of the engine stopping and starting on its own! If you&#8217;re keen to try one out, then get in touch with one of the Northgate branches listed above or head over to your nearest <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk\/content\/unitedkingdom\/mpc\/mpc_unitedkingdom_website\/en\/home_mpc\/van.flash.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes-Benz van dealer<\/a> for a test drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECO-Start equipped Mercedes Sprinters are now available at three easyVan locations &#8211; Southampton, Birmingham and Bristol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1954,161,96,400,18,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}