{"id":4112,"date":"2012-12-19T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T11:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T11:26:46","slug":"van-innovation-fuels-savings-for-lenham-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4112","title":{"rendered":"Van Innovation Fuels Savings For Lenham Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

With fuel prices looking likely to remain at record highs, it’s no surprise that forward-looking transport companies are increasingly keen to try out new technologies that promise to deliver significant fuel savings.<\/p>\n

One such company is Lenham Storage<\/a>, which has more than 260 vehicles based at its depots in Maidstone<\/a> and Andover<\/a>. The company operates across the weight range, from 3.5t to 44t and is keen to save fuel and cut emissions wherever possible.<\/p>\n

One of its latest trials is of this Mercedes-Benz Sprinter luton<\/a>, which has an aerodynamic Bevan ICON<\/a> Luton body.<\/p>\n

\"Lenham

Lenham Storage's Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Luton with Bevan ICON body<\/p><\/div>\n

This futuristic body continues to provide a payload of more than 1,200kg but offers the potential for “significantly improved fuel economy”, according to the manufacturer.<\/p>\n

Lenham Storage Managing Director Keith Abrehart agrees, commenting:<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally we operate a Sprinter fitted with a futuristic aerodynamic Bevan ICON Luton body; this too is showing valuable savings over and above a traditional bodied vehicle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Higher up the weight range, Lenham is trialling the first 12-tonne Atego Hybrid in the UK and after twelve months’ use, the firm is seeing fuel savings of around 15%, with CO2 savings to match — an impressive outcome that shows the benefits of hybrid drivetrains in urban environments; the Atego normally operates in central London.<\/p>\n

Lenham is also trialling 14.6m and 15.65m tri-axle trailers with rear steer as part of the Department for Transport’s Longer Semi-Trailers trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lenham Storage is using an innovative Bevan ICON luton van body to cut fuel costs on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van — one of a range of cutting edge vehicles the company is trialling to cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1632,1631,126,96,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112"}],"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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}