{"id":8158,"date":"2015-12-18T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2015-12-18T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:24:52","slug":"wind-turbines-create-growing-demand-for-4x4-vans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/8158","title":{"rendered":"Wind turbines create growing demand for 4&#215;4 vans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continued growth in the number of onshore wind farms is seeing engineering giant Siemens expand its wind turbine engineering support team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7532\">once more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With more engineers comes a need for more vans, in this case vans with all-wheel drive and off-road capacity. Although a previous purchase was of Sprinter 4&#215;4 vans, this time round Siemens has opted for Volkswagen Transporter 4MOTION vans, 20 of which will shortly be joining its UK fleet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vw-t6-4-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Volkswagen Transporter T6\" width=\"550\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vw-t6-4-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vw-t6-4-sm-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/vw-t6-4-sm-50x46.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Siemens, the fuel efficiency of the Transporter BlueMotion was a key factor, as was the van&#8217;s load capacity and 4-wheel drive option. Each Transporter has been equipped with bespoke racking to carry the equipment and spare parts essential for the commissioning and up-keep of the turbines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind farm engineering specialist Siemens has added 20 new Volkswagen Transporter 4MOTION vans to its wind turbine support fleet in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1016,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158"}],"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=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8159,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}