{"id":946,"date":"2009-07-02T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T11:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2009-07-02T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T11:56:24","slug":"government-funded-electric-van-trials-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/946","title":{"rendered":"Government Funded Electric Van Trials To Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_287\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-287 \" title=\"Modec Zero Emission Electric Van\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/modecboxvan-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Modec Zero Emission Electric Van\" width=\"350\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/modecboxvan-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/modecboxvan-sm-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modec Zero Emission Electric Van<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/378\" target=\"_self\">government-funded trials of electric vans<\/a> I wrote about back in November 2008 look set to get started in the reasonably near future, according an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/story\/Fleets-to-begin-electric-van-trials-\/50556\" target=\"_blank\">article published by Fleet News<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Transport (DfT) has produced a list of approved electric vehicle suppliers, from which participating businesses can purchase or lease electric vans. Government grants will compensate for the extra cost of the electric vehicles over their diesel equivalents. The three main suppliers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modeczev.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Modec<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithelectricvehicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smith Electric Vehicles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zevelectric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allied Vehicles<\/a>. A hybrid conversion company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashwoods.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashwoods<\/a>, has also been included.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations taking part in the scheme include Royal Mail, Metropolitan Police, the Environment Agency and HMRC, as well as some local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/story\/Fleets-to-begin-electric-van-trials-\/50556\" target=\"_blank\">Fleet News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government-funded trials of electric vans are going to be getting underway soon &#8211; the DfT has now published its list of approved electric van suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[696,697,472,315,249,468,423,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}