{"id":6217,"date":"2014-05-22T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:58:03","slug":"nissan-e-nv200-electric-van-prices-go-head-to-head-with-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6217","title":{"rendered":"Nissan e-NV200 electric van prices go head-to-head with diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NissanNissan has announced pricing details for its e-NV200 electric van, which\u00a0will be available from July in the UK. As I’ve written before, I believe this vehicle could be the tipping point for electric vans<\/a>, and\u00a0indeed British Gas has already ordered 100\u00a0e-NV200 vans<\/a> following its extended winter trial of the model.<\/p>\n

Prices have been set to start from just \u00a313,393, after the \u00a38,000 government plug-in van grant has been subtracted — meaning that the cost to buyers will be almost exactly the same as a standard diesel-powered van, such as the new Ford Transit Courier, which starts at \u00a313,350.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that\u00a0this price applies to the ‘Flex’ purchase option, which means that you buy the vehicle, but lease the batteries, which\u00a0cost from \u00a361 per month. An outright purchase option for van and batteries is also available, and this\u00a0puts the\u00a0van’s starting price at \u00a316,562, again\u00a0after the government plug-in grant has been subtracted.<\/p>\n

Nissan claims that electricity costs will be just 2p per mile, whereas a similar diesel-powered van will cost\u00a012p – 14p per mile in fuel, meaning that the fuel savings from switching to electric are considerable — as long as you don’t need to exceed the e-NV200’s claimed 100-mile range, and have the facilities available to recharge it every night.<\/p>\n

Although the additional cost of the batteries — whether leased or purchased — has to be factored into total cost of ownership calculations, so too does the van’s\u00a0zero-rating for road tax and London Congestion Charge exemption, and in my view, it looks very competitively priced.<\/p>\n

The e-NV200 will initially be offered in two trim levels, Acenta and Tekna, and two body styles — a panel van, and a five-seat combi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nissan has announced launch prices for the e-NV200 electric van. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[1668,492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217"}],"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=6217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6217\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}