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http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/78086828/joe-barnett-charged-up-to-share-the-experience Joe Barnett charged up to share the experience March 21 2016 - Dominion Post [image / JOHN NICHOLSON/FAIRFAX NZ http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/a/h/o/a/6/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1aho6k.png/1458506337139.jpg European general manager for vehicle logistics company Autohub Joe Barnett with the Nissan e-NV200 ] On his last recent trip back to the Britain, English expat Joe Barnett shunned the usual souvenir tea towel, instead making a spur of the moment decision to ship an electric van back to Wellington. The Nissan e-NV200 is thought to be the first of its kind to hit the capital city. The van is based on the same technology as Nissan's electric hatchback, the Leaf, and doesn't look out of place in a line of tradesmen's white vans. But its electric motor means its running costs are likely to max out at only around $3 a day. Barnett, who is European general manager for vehicle logistics company Autohub, previously brought a Nissan Leaf into the country, which is now being used as a runaround at the company's head office in Auckland. Believing there was also a market for small commercial electric vehicles, he took the chance to buy the 2014 ex-lease van, which has only 3000 kilometres on the clock. "I just want people to appreciate that this isn't some sort of Martian having landed in Wellington. It's just another vehicle that is as convenient as a petrol or diesel vehicle and in a lot of ways more convenient. You never have to call at a petrol station, you only ever have to plug it in at home and when you get up the morning it is fully charged and away you go." Barnett, who has a love of fast cars and motorbikes and once worked for Ferrari, is not the most obvious convert to electric vehicles. But he enjoys the super easy to drive e-NV200, with its nippy acceleration and quiet motor. He was even pleasantly surprised at the van's performance over the Rimutakas when he drove it to the Martinborough Fair. "I was thinking Rimutakas ... I don't know. The funny part is there were cars coming up behind us and because electric vehicles have a lot of torque I was losing cars going up the Rimutakas. I'm sure all of them would have been absolutely mortified to know that this electric van was disappearing off in front of them." The e-NV200 has a range of 120 kilometres, and can be charged in just half an hour using a quick charge port, in four hours through a wall box, or in eight hours using a regular electric socket. "All I have got at home is an outdoor plug with an isolator switch and it is just outside the garage wall so you don't even have to put it in the garage to charge it. You can charge them outside. They are all fully waterproof." The electric van has a cargo capacity of 4.2 cubic metres and can carry a weight of up to 770 kilograms. It has all the bells and whistles, from heated seats and steering wheel to hands-free calling and text messaging and Bluetooth streaming audio. "It is ideal for people with small businesses where they need to travel locally throughout the day. Most tradesmen don't work more than 40 kilometres from their home base. You would be able to do that every day and plug in every night and end up with a very inexpensive way of going to work and taking your tools to work," Barnett says. Autohub does not supply vehicles to the public, but has struck up a relationship with the largest electric vehicle lease company in Britain so it can supply late model ex-lease vehicles to dealers in New Zealand. "Because they are used they are all different. I would think you would be seeing them for sale around the mid $30,000s but I am not absolutely sure." The vehicles typically have low mileage because of their use for "last mile delivery" in Britain, where courier companies deliver to depots on the outskirts of major cities, using electric vehicles for the last mile into the city centre to avoid congestion charges. [© 2016 Fairfax New Zealand] ... http://www.nissan.co.uk/GB/en/vehicle/electric-vehicles/e-nv200.html#nsmn-usedcars-list Nissan e-NV200 http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/nissan/e-nv200/first-drives/nissan-e-nv200-combi-first-drive-review ... http://www.autohub.co/contact.html JOE BARNETT General Manager Europe (NZ based) https://nz.linkedin.com/in/joe-barnett-6530161b For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-autohub-co-s-GM-shipped-an-ex-lease-uk-2014-e-NV200-e-van-to-NZ-tp4681152.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
