{"id":9491,"date":"2016-12-09T18:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2016-12-09T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:08:22","slug":"new-renault-kangoo-z-e-gets-50-longer-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9491","title":{"rendered":"New Renault Kangoo Z.E. gets 50% longer range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable:\u00a0mainstream electric vehicles are starting to get longer battery ranges between recharging.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of the all-electric <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/2498\">Renault Kangoo Z.E.<\/a> will boast a new motor and battery package\u00a0which\u00a0Renault says will increase its range\u00a0to 168 miles. That&#8217;s 50% more than the current model&#8217;s 106-mile range.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9492\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9492\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/renault-kangoo-ze-6-med.jpg\" alt=\"Renault Kangoo Z.E. electric van\" width=\"650\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/renault-kangoo-ze-6-med.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/renault-kangoo-ze-6-med-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/renault-kangoo-ze-6-med-624x396.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/renault-kangoo-ze-6-med-50x32.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renault Kangoo Z.E. electric van<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This announcement to increase the range on Kangoo Z.E. follows on from Renault recently launching at the 2016 Paris Motor Show the New Renault ZOE available with a new Z.E.40 battery that increases its NEDC driving range to 250 miles (186 miles in real world driving conditions) \u2013 the longest of any mainstream electric car.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect there are further increases to come.\u00a0A lot of firepower is now being put into electric drivetrains &#8212; in my view, it&#8217;s inevitable that such young technology will improved steadily for some time yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renault says that the latest version of its Kangoo Z.E. electric van will have a range of 168 miles &#8212; a 50% improvement on the current model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491"}],"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=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}