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This is exciting — in fact I can’t\u00a0find words to describe how big the opportunity is in the UK van market for electric vans.<\/p>\nThis is exciting — in fact I can’t\u00a0find words to describe how big the opportunity is in the UK van market for electric vans.<\/p>\n
Yet another (small) example crossed my desk this week, in the form of a press release detailing how a Lancashire dairy is saving \u00a3900 per month in fuel bills\u00a0on just four vans, thanks to making the switch to all-electric Nissan e-NV200s.<\/p>\n
Although you might think I’m being funny —\u00a0after all, milkmen\u00a0were using electric milk floats before I was born — I’m not. Milkmen don’t use electric milk floats anymore — they use diesel vans.<\/p>\n
The milkmen at Grimshaw Lane Dairy, in Ormskirk, cover around 50 miles a day\u00a0—\u00a0a similar mileage to a great many fleet vans (think Royal Mail, utility meter readers, urban delivery vehicles).<\/p>\n
Such a usage cycle is perfect for electric power, and switching back to electric is not only\u00a0environmentally friendly, but it is proving to be cost efficient, too, now that a suitable\u00a0mass produced electric van is available to the UK market.<\/p>\n
Grimshaw Lane Dairy in Ormskirk has taken delivery of four e-NV200 vans from Crosby Park Nissan in Liverpool and is using them to make its daily deliveries to homes and businesses in and around the town.\u00a0The four vehicles have replaced a fleet of aging diesels and each covers around 50 miles a day making roughly 500 deliveries apiece.<\/p>\n
Managing Director Andrew Brown, who plans to swap his two remaining diesel vehicles with e-NV200s in the coming months, says that he\u00a0is already saving \u00a3900 a month in fuel bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s more, the generous spec\u2019 and smooth drive of the e-NV200 means driver morale is now at an all-time high and residential customers are happy as early morning deliveries, which start at 1.30am, are now made in near silence.<\/p>\n Commenting \u00a0on the change,\u00a0Andrew said:<\/p>\n \u201cSwitching to the Nissan e-NV200 was a no brainer for us. Basically the savings we\u2019re making on the fuel have paid for the contract hire on the vans and we\u2019ll be saving on the maintenance too.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve effectively got four new vans for what we\u2019d have been spending on fuel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Driver satisfaction was also a major consideration, but equipment levels on board the e-NV200 \u2013 such as\u00a0twin side-loading doors, together with the ability to defrost their vehicles from an app on their phones before getting up to start their shifts in the early hours \u2013 has proved an instant hit.<\/p>\n Launched last year, the Nissan e-NV200 combines the NV200 \u2013 a former International Van of the Year \u2013 with the proven technology of the record breaking Nissan LEAF \u2013 the world\u2019s bestselling electric car.\u00a0Nissan claims running costs of just two pence per mile, and says that low maintenance costs mean that the\u00a0total cost of ownership is \u00a31,200 less\u00a0than for a conventional diesel van over four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nissan e-NV200 continues to prove its financial worth, saving a four-van dairy operation \u00a3900 per month in fuel bills and winning new fans among drivers and customers. What’s not to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1668,1154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054"}],"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=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}