{"id":5278,"date":"2013-09-18T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2013-09-18T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:43:03","slug":"nissan-e-nv200-is-a-hit-in-londons-square-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5278","title":{"rendered":"Nissan e-NV200 Is A Hit In London’s Square Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nissan e-NV200 on trial with the City of London Corporation. The e-NV200 is due to be launched in 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n

The City of London Corporation is the ‘local council’ for the square mile — London’s financial district, which has just 9,000 residents, but has 350,000 daily commuters and nine million annual visitors.<\/p>\n

The dense, congested, urban environment in which the Corporation’s vehicles operate should be ideal for electric power, and two trials this year have confirmed this.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year the City of London Corporation took part in a successful trial of the Nissan LEAF electric car, and it’s just completed a week-long trial of Nissan’s electric van, the e-NV200.<\/p>\n

The Corporation<\/a> found that the van could complete a typical daily usage cycle on one charge and received positive feedback from all of the drivers who tried the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Using an all-electric vehicle means zero CO2 emissions at the point of use, and the cost of charging an electric vehicle is significantly lower than the equivalent cost of diesel.<\/p>\n

The London trial is just one of several trials that Nissan has undertaken with the e-NV200, all of which have been successful<\/a>. The van is due to be launched next year, and I expect it to be one of the first commercially successful electric vans.<\/p>\n

Through its extensive trial programme, Nissan has provided key commercial users with a thorough understanding<\/a> of how the van can be used, and assuming it is sufficiently affordable, I expect demand to be strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of London Corporation is the latest commercial vehicle user to have taken part in a successful trial of Nissan’s e-NV200 electric van, which is due to be launched in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[1695,492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278"}],"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=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}