{"id":7689,"date":"2015-08-05T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:01:36","slug":"solihull-council-powers-up-nissan-electric-van-for-2p-per-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7689","title":{"rendered":"Solihull Council powers up Nissan electric van for 2p per mile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SolihullFancy running a van for 2p per mile and saving an average of \u00a3300 per year on running costs?<\/p>\n

That’s what Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is expecting to do as a result of\u00a0swapping a standard diesel van for a new Nissan e-NV200 Combi electric van.<\/p>\n

According to Nissan, total cost of ownership is expected to be \u00a31,200 lower than a comparable diesel vehicle over\u00a0a four year ownership period.<\/p>\n

The Combi model was chosen to balance seating capacity with load capacity, and Solihull Council’s first electric vehicle will be used by its Neighbourhood Services team to co-ordinate community projects such as park improvements and sport facilities such as skate parks.<\/p>\n

As with so many vans, this e-NV200 won’t stray that far from its base — ever — so the official 106 mile\u00a0range should be more than adequate.<\/p>\n

The council is happy so far and will consider more electric\u00a0vehicles, according to Councillor Tony Dicicco, who is Cabinet Member for Environment, Housing and Regeneration:<\/p>\n

“The e-NV200 has shown us just how electric vehicles can work for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom our perspective, the technology has come so far that every time a department has a need for a new vehicle or a lease comes up for renewal we\u2019ll be looking to see if there\u2019s a viable electric option.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\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.<\/p>\n

The e-NV200 is available in panel van form with a 700kg payload, or as a five or seven-seat Combi crew cab model. Prices start\u00a0from \u00a313,568 in panel van form (including the government plug-in grant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Solihull Council has purchased its first electric vehicle, a Nissan e-NV200 Combi which replaces a diesel 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":[1668,1154,1936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689"}],"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=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}