Commercial and industrial electric vehicle sales will top $30 billion this year, compared with $28 billion for consumer EVs, but by 2023 that gap will widen to $154 billion for commercial EVs and $119 billion for electric and hybrid cars, says a report from IDTechEx.
This week Nissan debuted its electric taxi and says it’s in the final development phase of its second mass production zero-emission vehicle, an electric delivery van.
The automaker launched the e-NV200 electric taxi in Barcelona. The vehicle will also be introduced in other big cities around the world and will begin production in 2014 in Barcelona. Also this week, Nissan announced it is in the final development phase of its second mass production zero-emission vehicle, the e-NV200 compact van, scheduled for launch in 2014.
The company has been working with several large commercial fleets in global markets since 2011 to understand how the e-NV200 test van performs under real operating conditions.
