Nissan e-NV200

Chargers have been installed at the engineers’ homes

“All the trial vehicles were fitted with 30A chargers, which enables their batteries to be recharged in four hours,” Morton said.

The purchase of the e-NV200s will be funded by finance house Hitachi Capital which will also manage the new fleet on behalf of British Gas. The vans will remain in service for five years, by which time a used market for electric vans should have developed.

British Gas also runs around 600 diesel Nissan NV200s and Primastars, it is also known as an operator of Volkswagen light commercials. And while Volkswagen has built prototype electric Caddy vans, it has yet to put them into production.

But this gap in the Volkswagen line-up will not lead British Gas to transfer all its business to Nissan, stresses Morton, who said: “We have no plans to operate a single-badge fleet.”

 

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