{"id":548,"date":"2009-01-06T15:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-01-14T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T09:43:48","slug":"ms-launch-electric-van-as-part-of-plan-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/548","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S Launch Electric Van As Part of &#8216;Plan A&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_556\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-556\" title=\"Marks &amp; Spencer Modec Electric Van\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/modec_ms-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Marks &amp; Spencer Modec Electric Van\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/modec_ms-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/modec_ms-sm-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marks &amp; Spencer Modec Electric Van<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bearing the slogan &#8220;This vehicle has switched to electric&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksandspencer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marks and Spencer&#8217;s<\/a> first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modeczev.com\/uk\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Modec<\/a> electric van is a clear statement of its intention to &#8216;green up&#8217; its (considerable) transport operations.<\/p>\n<p>The electric van, which has a range of 70 miles and a maximum speed of 50mph, will be used for urban deliveries in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/London\" target=\"_self\">London<\/a>. In addition to its near-silent, zero-emission operation, it offers a number of other benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No road tax<\/li>\n<li>No tachograph requirement<\/li>\n<li>No MOT<\/li>\n<li>No congestion charge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Modec went into operation in December 2008 and should single-handedly reduce M&amp;S&#8217; CO2 emissions by around nine tonnes per year. It forms part of the company&#8217;s Plan A climate change plan, which aims to make its operations greener. The overall goal is for the <a href=\"http:\/\/plana.marksandspencer.com\/index.php?action=PublicAboutPlanDetailDisplay&amp;pillar_id=1\" target=\"_blank\">company&#8217;s UK and Irish operations to become carbon-neutral by 2012<\/a> &#8211; an ambitious but impressive target.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine another element of the plan may be the increased use of teardrop-shaped, streamlined double-decker lorry trailers. Replacing the old box-shaped double deckers, these are reckoned to reduce fuel consumption by several percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks and Spencer&#8217;s first Modec electric van has gone on the road in London &#8211; part of the company&#8217;s plan to make their UK and Irish operations carbon neutral by 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[560,149,219,561,423,250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}