http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/kapiti-observer/78787472/kapiti-coast-funeral-home-continues-selfsufficiency-plan-with-electric-car Kapiti Coast Funeral Home continues self-sufficiency plan with electric car April 12 2016 Adam Poulopoulos
[image / Adam Poulopoulos http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/a/w/t/k/z/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1awosw.png/1460441688971.jpg Kapiti Coast Funeral Home managing director Andrew Malcolm with the company's new Nissan Leaf electric car ] A Kapiti funeral director says his company's new electric car is their next step to becoming more self-sufficient. Kapiti Coast Funeral Home added a Nissan Leaf electric car to its fleet last week. The car is not a hearse, and will be used to run general errands. Managing director Andrew Malcolm, a self-confessed "bit of a greenie", said the company has been looking to become more self-sufficient for several years. He said in 2007, they became the first funeral home in New Zealand to use eco-friendly pine caskets instead of fibreboard. Now, his dream is to become the first funeral home to have an all-electric car fleet. The company has six cars in its fleet - three hearses and three for general duties, one of which is the Nissan Leaf. All of its existing hearses are adapted utes. Malcolm said there are no long wheelbase electric cars on the market, but Tesla are looking into introducing them in the next two years. Malcolm also wants to incorporate solar and wind power as energy sources. He said the feedback on the car had been positive. "On the first day we drove it down to the beach. "I parked the car and I hadn't even got out and a guy opened the door and said 'I've been following these for years. I want one'." Malcolm said the car costs the equivalent of 30 cents a litre to run in power costs, as opposed to $1.84 at the petrol pump. The car runs over 150 kilometres on one charge, and a charging station is fitted at the funeral home. Malcolm said the car satisfied all of his requirements, with Kapiti Crematorium located on Valley Rd and all churches within about seven kilometres of the funeral home. "Even if we have to go to Plimmerton or Porirua it's only a 50 kilometre round trip." Malcolm said the weight of the battery has not affected how the car performs on the road. "It drives beautifully, It's so smooth. "Even with all the weight down the bottom it's really light to drive." [© stuff.co.nz] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Funeral-Home-nz-self-sufficiency-w-non-hearse-Leaf-EV-tp4681571.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
