{"id":14348,"date":"2022-02-01T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:03:13","slug":"electric-rac-vans-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14348","title":{"rendered":"UK: RAC Begins Using Electric Patrol Vans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RAC<\/a> has become the first major breakdown recovery service to use an electric<\/a> patrol van after starting a trial with the Renault Zoe Van<\/a>. Although the hatchback-based vans cannot tow another vehicle \u2013 and the RAC says no electric vehicle is yet capable of that task \u2013 the small vans still carry tools to fix \u201cfour out of five breakdowns on the spot\u201d.<\/p>\n

The trial van, which is fitted with a 55 kWh battery, will mainly be tasked with attending the RAC\u2019s most common breakdowns: battery issues and tyre problems. Together, those two issues account for almost half of callouts, so the RAC has kitted the Zoe out with up to six replacement 12-volt batteries, two tyres and a trolley jack, as well as a battery tester, the RAC\u2019s RACScan diagnostic tool and a selection of other tools.<\/p>\n

According to the company, the Zoe Van is one of the few electric vehicles capable of carrying the necessary equipment without compromising its 245-mile range. The van is to be deployed in a variety of settings \u2013 both urban and rural \u2013 to find out whether it\u2019s suitable for the RAC\u2019s operation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are very excited to be putting our first electric zero-emission patrol van into service,\u201d said the RAC group operations director Paul Coulton. \u201cWe have been assessing various electric vans for some time but have been frustrated by the fact there isn\u2019t one on the market that can do what our diesel-powered patrol vans can do at the moment in terms of carrying 500 parts and tools and towing broken-down vehicles, with a range that\u2019s even half what one of our standard vans can do on a full tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we continue to talk to manufacturers about our requirements, we\u2019re confident we can put an electric RAC patrol van into effective use on the road by carefully deploying it to jobs that won\u2019t require towing.<\/p>\n

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“We\u2019re already leading the breakdown industry in terms of EV breakdown with our award-winning RAC EV Boost technology which can get flat or severely depleted electric cars going again without the need for heavy and bulky portable batteries, and our All-Wheels-Up rapid recovery system, which enables a standard patrol van to safely tow a stricken EV with all four wheels off the road, so this was a logical next step.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis first RAC all-electric patrol van may be small, but it\u2019s easily capable of successfully attending nearly half of the breakdowns we get called out to on a daily basis. We\u2019re confident it will prove the old saying that good things really do come in small packages.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RAC has become the first major breakdown recovery service to use an electric patrol van after starting a trial with the Renault Zoe Van. Although the hatchback-based vans cannot tow another vehicle \u2013 and the RAC says no electric vehicle is yet capable of that task \u2013 the small vans still carry tools to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}