EV News

Gloucestershire Constabulary has taken delivery of 75 electric vehicles from Nissan, making 21% of its fleet zero-emissions and reducing its CO₂ output by more than 190 tonnes a year. The vehicles include a total of 66 Nissan LEAFs, of which 11 will be marked vehicles, and nine e-NV200s. The force has estimated that the saving in fuel and maintenance will equate to £136,000 a year. Gloucestershire police has experience with a smaller fleet of Nissan…

New Energy Vehicle (NEV) sales in China collapsed and now the European market is significantly bigger. A year ago, probably no one expected that China might not be the biggest plug-in electric car market (in terms of volume) anymore. But that is exactly what happened – at least temporarily. Two things happened – plug-in electric car sales in China collapsed, while the European sales surged. In the case of China, among factors, we can mention…

DPD has ordered 300 electric vans for use in the UK. Nissan is to deliver its e-NV200 by May 2020. DPD is thus expanding its electric fleet in the UK to 450 vehicles and aims to reach the 500 e-vehicle mark by the end of 2020. By then ten per cent of the van fleet in the 68 DPD depots in the UK will be battery-electric. The delivery service has already been using some of…

From April, company car tax will be scrapped for electric car buyers; experts predict big surge in demand for EVs The electric car revolution is poised to hit the UK this year, but not because of purchase grants, green-shaming or European Union regulations. Instead, the expected sales boom is set to be driven largely by a change to company car tax regulations. After the upcoming changes were announced in July 2019, sales of EVs doubled in the…