{"id":1564,"date":"2015-02-18T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:22:37","slug":"alphabet-launches-try-charge-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/alphabet-launches-try-charge-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet launches try before you charge scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BusinessCar Award-winning fleet management company Alphabet has launched a temporary charging solution aimed at customers evaluating whether electric vehicles would fit their fleet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Created in conjunction with electricity firm EDF Energy, the &#8220;charge before you buy scheme&#8221; offers three charging points available for fleets to lease for up to three months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alphabet said the points, attached to free-standing non-invasive pinnacles designed to cause minimal disruption, give customers an &#8220;at the pump charging experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For a number of years now, EDF Energy has been working closely with the automotive industry to help bring developments in EV charging to the market,&#8221; said Mark Constable, senior product manager at EDF Energy. &#8220;Fully or partially-electrified vehicle fleets mean a large decrease in carbon emissions which can have a real impact on a company&#8217;s reduction targets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move dovetails with the firm&#8217;s EV consultancy arm AlphaElectric, which recently announced it has received over 1000 orders since it was launched in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessCar Award-winning fleet management company Alphabet has launched a temporary <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/alphabet-launches-try-charge-scheme\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[91,107,179],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-alphabet","tag-businesscar","tag-edf-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/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=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}