{"id":1457,"date":"2015-01-30T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:42:35","slug":"alphaelectric-passes-1000-ev-orders-since-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/alphaelectric-passes-1000-ev-orders-since-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"AlphaElectric passes 1000 EV orders since launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leasing company Alphabet has announced it has received over 1000 electric vehicle orders through its EV consultancy service AlphaElectric.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AlphaElectric was launched in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0BusinessCar Awards-winning fleet management company\u00a0also said it has taken more than 150 electric vehicle orders since the start of 2015 &#8211; more than of 20% of 2014&#8217;s total orders.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago the service supplier announced it had exceeded its 2014 target for EV orders by 24%.\u00a0The firm is putting the growth down to an interest in electric vehicles as companies attempt to save money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expected orders of EVs to double in 2015, but initial figures suggest that we could see an even greater increase. We&#8217;re only one month into the year and already we&#8217;ve taken one fifth of the total amount of orders that we took in the whole of 2014,&#8221; said David Bushnell, eMobility consultant at Alphabet<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With continued investment in both charging infrastructure and purchase subsidies for EV buyers, EVs have now become a viable option for many businesses,&#8221; said Bushnell.<\/p>\n<p>The leasing company recently announced it had delivered over 1000 vehicles through its broker programme, known as Alphabet Partner.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was launched on 30 September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 5% (49) were electric vehicles, while 10% (90) were LCVs.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet said all of the transactions utilised Alphabet&#8217;s funding products &#8211; contract hire, finance lease, contract purchase, personal contract purchase and personal contract hire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leasing company Alphabet has announced it has received over 1000 <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/alphaelectric-passes-1000-ev-orders-since-launch\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-electric-vehicles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}