IKEA UK shifts fleet to Civic hybrids
IKEA UK, like so many other companies, has a policy in place to reduce CO2 emissions and be an all around greener company. One way they're doing this is shifting to a fleet with nothing but hybrids, and the lucky car company to get all those orders is Honda. Specifically, IKEA UK will use only Civic hybrids for its fleet vehicles. Fifty are on the way this year, and more in 2008. I'm not sure which cars will get the boot to make room for the Civics.
John Kingston, Environment Manager at Honda (UK) said in a statement that, "Civic Hybrid is really taking off in the corporate sector where businesses want to be seen to be green. IKEA's commitment to replace its entire fleet with Civic Hybrids is a real-life endorsement of the car and the excellent benefits it offers. In terms of cost, fuel efficiency and low emission driving the Civic Hybrid really stacks up."
[Source: Honda, also tipped by Linton and Hugg]
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Altairian1 6:31PM (6/11/2007)
Altairnano's Nanosafe storming Europe is the story of the day in case you missed it. Better yet than Zap-X?
http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=15408&url=
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TG 10:31PM (6/11/2007)
Ikea UK*s heart is in the right place but they should have considered going electric as several other UK firms have done.
Those firms will continue to *deliver* during an Opec cut-off while Ikea*s hybrids will sit in the driveway.
The standard Prius can not function without some gas in the tank.
On the other hand, if these prius models are double battery, plug-in models, designed for battery only operation, then Ikea has done the wiser move. = TG
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MikeW 1:02AM (6/12/2007)
It is funny, you can fit a whole lot of stuff in the prius. The civic hybrid has a compromised trunk, and no folding rear seats.
The only thing worse is the natural gas civic, basically no trunk at all.
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