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First UK-built electric trucks go to work for Tesco and Sainsburys
26th April 2007
The UK electric CV manufacturer Modec, exhibiting this week on stand 4371 at the NEC Commercial Vehicle Show, has announced that Tesco.com will the first to run a fleet of its battery-electric home delivery vans. Tesco has so far bought 15 of the vehicles, and this week put some of them to work from its new store in Shrewsbury. The new trucks can carry a two tonne payload, have a 100 mile range and a top speed of 50mph, all on one overnight charge.
Fellow UK electric vehicle specialist Smiths Industries is showing a battery-electric 3.5 tonne Ford Transit at the CV Show; Sainsbury's has just ordered eight of these vehicles for its home delivery fleet. Meanwhile, TNT Express has confirmed an initial order of 50 units of Smith's Industries’ Newton 7.5-tonne battery-electric truck after a 6-month trial in London. Five additional trucks are to be put on trial in continentinental Europe, beginning in Rotterdam.
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