{"id":813,"date":"2009-04-07T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2009-04-07T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T08:55:22","slug":"813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/813","title":{"rendered":"Electric Charging for London, Hybrid Trials &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fiat van becomes car<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fiat appears to have turned its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiatprofessional.co.uk\/fiorino\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorino<\/a> van (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/146\" target=\"_self\">aka Citren Nemo, Peugeot Bipper<\/a>) into a car.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiat Qubo was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/driving\/jeremy_clarkson\/article6028723.ece?&amp;EMC-Bltn=QQZDGA\" target=\"_blank\">thoroughly slated by Jeremy Clarkson in The Times<\/a> last weekend, if you fancy a laugh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Electric Charging Stations for London?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also in The Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/driving\/features\/article6030396.ece?&amp;EMC-Bltn=QQZDGA\" target=\"_blank\">news comes of a company that&#8217;s planning to setup a network of electric vehicle charging stations across London<\/a>. Evoasis hopes to have six charging stations setup by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The stations will charge at 440V rather than the domestic norm of 240V, resulting in much faster charging than usual &#8211; Evoasis claims that charging could be completed in 20 minutes for suitably adpated vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Still seems a bit slow compared to filling up with petrol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, FedEx Hybrid Van Trial Saves 26.5% On Fuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A six-month trial of 10 diesel-electric hybrid Iveco Daily vans by FedEx has resulted in fuel savings of 26.5% and a reduction in CO2 emissions of 7.5 tonnes when compared to conventional, diesel-only vans.<\/p>\n<p>The vans participating in the trial apparently only did 4,900 miles in six months, so I would hazard a guess that they were being used on urban delivery routes, but the results are impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing they don&#8217;t tell us is which solution would have cost more (assuming the hybrids were purhcased at market prices).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van news &#8211; electric charging points in London, diesel-electric hybrids saving fuel for FedEx and the Fiat Fiorino has been turned into a car &#8211; badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[657,656,659,291,655,468,658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}