Current electric vehicles still can’t tempt buyers as a sound financial decision, but bought in bulk and used properly they can repay their value through use.
Norway’s national mail service has just bought 300 all-electric Renault Kangoo Maxi Z.E. which it will obviously use to make deliveries, probably primarily in cities as that’s where these vehicles are best suited.
Posten Norge had to choose between the Kangoo, as well as alternatives from Peugeot and Nissan, with the latter still “supplying some cars,” according to vg.no.
Interestingly, because they are going to Norway where the winters are very cold, each one will get a diesel generator to keep everything from freezing over. It won’t use much fuel at all, though, expected roughly at two liters per week.
This influx of commercial EVs offsets the balance of such vehicles currently in use in Norway. Out of the more than 50,000 EVs now in the country, only around 1,000 are vans; the idea now is to get them to appeal to craftsmen and traders, a natural target for a battery powered van of small dimensions.