The Great British Van Industry (really): an electric revolution.

When it comes to vehicles with four wheels and an internal combustion engine, Britain has not had much luck since the heady days of the 1960s. During the 1970s and 1980s industrial action, strikes, state subsidised competitors and poor designs had the inevitable effect of destroying all but a very few British car and van businesses.
Recently, however, a remarkable company called Modec has bucked that trend. The Coventry based van company is unusual in many respects. It is British owned; it is a new company; it is growing. However, the most unusual feature about it must be what they produces – electric vans.
Unlike its larger competitors who are still ramming the internal combustion down peoples’ throats, Modec is producing electric vehicles right now!
There are obvious environmental and cost benefits to what they do. The electricity used to charge these vehicles is at most half as polluting as the equivalent power needed to shift the same load with an diesel or petrol engine. What is more, charging can be done with turbines or solar panels, making transportation carbon neutral.
Savings on fuel costs can also be considerable. Given the recent hike in petrol and diesel prices, would n’t it be nice to buy electricity which s about 10 times cheaper than petrol or diesel. Even when the cost of renting the batteries is taken into account, users save on the cost of diesel and know their costs are fixed – which is more than can be said for the OPEC dependents.
Let’s put it this way, which do you prefer: paying large sums of money to OPEC leaders, based on the assumption that a very small group of wealthy land owners deserve millions of pounds each year; or running your car on electricity for less money?
Modec is one of the first companies to produce a vehicle which is practical, cost effective, environmental stronger than the opposition, quieter. Some forward thinking groups are already using MODEC vehicles, including Bedfordshire county council, TESCO and UPS. I am currently in the process of writing to my MP and asking why the government is not more coherent in supporting these vehicles by ordering them for each local authority in the country. Maybe you would like to do the same.
I am confident that more people will start using them as they become known and as OPEC become ever more greedy and undependable. Modec is one of the few companies who present a genuine solution to the problems of burning petrol - as opposed to many others who simply try to reduce the amount they burn. I see the future and it is a MODEC van – coming to a road near you.

You can also find out more details of the company by clicking on this web link.

http://www.modeczev.com/uk/home