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Given its share of the car and van markets, through its many brand names, Volkswagen has been relatively slow to join the electric revolution. Indeed, though currently launching e-Golf and e-up! cars, the company hasn’t made much noise about an electric van at all. However that looks set to change. While Volkswagen was at pains to […]
This resulted in a manufacturing downturn of 22.8% over the year-to-date, with output for both home and export down. However, SMMT expects production to stabilise in late summer. ‘UK commercial vehicle output continued to feel the effects of last year’s production restructuring with volumes down 32% in May. There is light at the end of […]
According to Chevin, personal devices such as smartphones, tablets, ultrabooks and other devices used by employees on work business are several generations in advance of the “official” corporate IT. Ashley Sowerby, managing director, said: ‘In the corporate world, we have many users running our software on Windows XP desktops that date back up to a […]
Launched by The LowCVP, the Fuels Roadmap sets out a variety of transport options to deliver on the UK and Europe’s low carbon transport targets, highlighting a role for LPG and bio-LPG. In addition, based on research by strategic energy consultancy Element Energy, a conversion of UK company vehicles to LPG could contribute to an […]
The ongoing consultation process around the proposed accountancy changes to formulate a common standard for all leased assets including company cars has put forward the proposal that all leases, whether they are finance or operating leases, should be on the company’s balance sheet. As a result, companies would be required to highlight how much […]
The company has purchased 13 new Mercedes vehicles in total from the local branch of Rygor, Britain’s biggest Mercedes-Benz Dealer. Most are 3.5-tonne Sprinter 313 CDIs – while four are standard panels vans, the line-up also includes the two 4x4s as well as a Dualiner crew variant with a second row of seats, and a […]
The function spans 50 different alerts, which cover the whole life-span of a leased vehicle and are fully customisable to suit the needs of individual fleets or drivers. Customers can tailor which alerts are received by individual drivers, ranging from key messages, such as the completion of an order, to Duty of Care prompts to […]
Carried out at Ford’s facilities in Lommel, Belgium, and in Romeo, Michigan, the testing has included corrosive salt and mud-baths, non-stop driving for two months at top speed and continuous figure-of-eight manoeuvres for a month. The durability tests included the equivalent of driving 11 million kilometres – or 275 round-the-world trips – at state-of-the-art proving […]
The firm says that it has over 6,000 motor injury claims linked to organised fraud activity with a value of over £10m. Tom Gardiner, head of claims fraud at Aviva, said: ‘The fast growth of induced accidents on our roads is cause for serious concern. Fraudsters are prepared to put the safety of innocent motorists' […]
The fast-growing fleet leasing specialist has opted to use Fleet Assist’s nationwide network of more than 7,000 garages to undertake service, maintenance and repair work on vehicles supplied to customers across the UK. Sinclair Finance and Leasing, which operates a fleet of more than 3,000 vehicles, will also use Fleet Assist to provide an out-of-hours […]
