{"id":2393,"date":"2011-09-30T06:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2011-09-25T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:04:30","slug":"electric-cargo-scooters-offer-novel-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2393","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cargo Scooters Offer Novel Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a type of electric goods vehicle that I haven&#8217;t seen before &#8211; the electric cargo scooter:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2394\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2394\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2394\" title=\"GOVEC GO! T Series Electric Scooter with cargo box\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/govec_t-series_elec-scooter-sm.jpg\" alt=\"GOVEC GO! T Series Electric Scooter with cargo box\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/govec_t-series_elec-scooter-sm.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/govec_t-series_elec-scooter-sm-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOVEC GO! T Series Electric Cargo Scooter - the ultimate pizza delivery machine?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If the manic buzzing of scooter engines characterises your business delivery vehicles, then why not consider something a little more refined, cheaper to run, and much less polluting?<\/p>\n<p>German company GOVECS&#8217; new range electric scooters offer speeds of up to 80km\/h (50mph) and a range of up to 100km (62 miles) &#8211; enough for the vast majority of urban delivery applications. The scooters&#8217; integral cargo boxes means that goods or packets to be delivered can be kept safe, secure, dry, and away from prying eyes &#8211; ideal for postal work, urban couriers, pizza deliveries and much more.<\/p>\n<p>GOVECS say that loads of up to 175kg (including the driver) are possible and box capacities up to 170 litres are offered &#8211; plus the ability to mount existing boxes. GOVECS&#8217; top of the range T Series model even has regenerative braking to extend battery life.<\/p>\n<p>All models can be charged to 85% battery capacity in two hours from a standard 13A household socket, using the integrated charger that&#8217;s built in to each scooter.<\/p>\n<p>GOVECS GO! T Series scooters will be available to order from 1st October and will cost from \u20ac4445 (approx. \u00a33850) each.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will be before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">van rental<\/a> companies start offering electric van hire?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govecs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.govecs.com<\/a> for more information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cargo scooters make perfect sense for low-volume urban delivery applications. GOVECS&#8217; new GO! T Series electric scooters look very promising indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[1148,1147,249,1149,1146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393"}],"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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}