{"id":6943,"date":"2014-12-18T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2014-12-18T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:10:02","slug":"nissan-e-nv200-combi-scores-early-success-with-cornish-taxi-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6943","title":{"rendered":"Nissan e-NV200 Combi scores early success with Cornish taxi firm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C&C Taxis Nissan e-NV200 Combi<\/p><\/div>\n

More evidence — if more evidence is needed — that electric\u00a0cars, vans and minibuses are already commercially viable for business use, where usage patterns\u00a0are\u00a0highly\u00a0predictable.<\/p>\n

A Cornish taxi firm, C&C Taxis of St Austell, has just added a Nissan e-NV200 Combi minibus\/people carrier electric vehicle to its taxi fleet, which already\u00a0includes six electric Nissan LEAF cars.<\/p>\n

The five-seater Combi \u2013 Next Green Car\u2019s LCV of the Year \u2013 has since clocked up more than 1,000 miles across the Duchy.<\/p>\n

Already C&C\u2019s fleet manager, Mark Richards, is sure the company\u2019s onto another winner, calculating that, just like each LEAF on the fleet, the e-NV200 Combi will save \u00a310,000 in fuel bills per year.<\/p>\n

The additional versatility and practicality the e-NV200 Combi provides has convinced him to commit to a long-term strategy of phasing out the company\u2019s remaining diesel vehicles and replacing them all with EVs.Mark said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had such great success with our LEAFs we decided we were going to buy an e-NV200 the minute we learnt it was going to be launched.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have one, we\u2019re absolutely delighted with it. It does everything the LEAF does but is much bigger and offers more space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll definitely be ordering more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Priced from \u00a317,855 (including the \u00a35,000 Government Plug-in Car Grant), the e-NV200 Combi is capable of covering 106 miles on a single charge and can be charged from zero to 80% full in as little as 30 minutes and offers near purchase price parity with diesel models, as I’ve written before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although electric vehicles are unlikely to make it into mainstream daily van and minibus rental fleets anytime soon, due to their range and charging restrictions, I’m pretty sure that we’ll be seeing more businesses adopt electric vans and people carriers like the e-NV200\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Cornish taxi firm is now operating 7 Nissan electric vehicles and plans to phase out its remaining diesel vehicles to go all-electric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1891],"tags":[1154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943"}],"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=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6945,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}