{"id":4189,"date":"2013-01-28T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T16:23:23","slug":"nissan-e-nv200-gets-rave-reviews-at-test-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4189","title":{"rendered":"Nissan e-NV200 Gets Rave Reviews At Test Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nissan e-NV200 electric van<\/p><\/div>\n

Fleet van operators are jostling to place orders for the Nissan e-NV200 electric van, according to Nissan, who recently ran a two-day demonstration event to promote the van, which is due to go on sale in 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nissan has received extremely positive feedback from the fleet industry on its new e-NV200 electric van when it was showcased in late 2012.<\/p>\n

Five leasing companies, six major fleet operators and three used value guides visited Nissan\u2019s Barcelona production facility and drove the new e-NV200, a diesel NV200 and the LEAF.<\/p>\n

The group met the e-NV200 development team and were able to give their thoughts on all aspects of the vehicle, including how they envisage it fitting into a fleet strategy.\u00a0 Nissan also shared its overall EV vision including product creation, development and future EV plans.<\/p>\n

All delegates reacted positively to the 100% electric van\u2019s driving and performance characteristics with many keen to put the vehicle into immediate use.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’ve long thought<\/a> that electric vans make far more sense than electric cars — with vans, you know exactly how far and over what route they will travel each day and you can plan to have them recharged in an off-road base each night.<\/p>\n

Nissan’s findings certainly seem to suggest that this might be true:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were blown away with the response and we already have leasing companies and fleet operators who want to trial the vehicle, and some who want to order a fleet of vehicles for urban delivery use,\u201d explained Matthew Dale, Nissan\u2019s national LCV sales manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter driving the vehicle on the two day trip they could immediately see the business benefit of running electric vans across specific parts of a fleet. Commercial vehicles are working tools and our guests recognised both the savings in fuel costs and reduced emissions offered by the e-NV200,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a residual value perspective the used guides could see a definite role to play for the e-NV200 and that used prices should be strong based on the vehicle\u2019s practicality and whole life costs, which will give it a second and third life in the used market.<\/p>\n

\u201cResidual values are key to the success of any commercial vehicle so we were pleased to hear some very positive initial comments from the used vehicle experts,\u201d said Dale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Barcelona trip follows successful trials with major fleets such as British Gas<\/a>, FedEx<\/a> and the Japan Post Service in 2011 and 2012 as Nissan prepares the e-NV200 for mainstream production. The e-NV200 is expected to go on sale in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nissan says that fleet operators are showing strong interest in its forthcoming e-NV200 electric vans, after running a series of successful fleet trials and test days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[249,492,1646,1647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189"}],"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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}