More good news14 Dec 2010 15:36
December 14, 2010 | Comments (0)
Smith is working in partnership with rental company Clem to introduce its electric vehicles into the Spanish market. Clem – part of Riwal - has more than 25 years’ expertise in EVs and is already a distributor for Garia luxury golf carts, Segway and Taylor-Dunn industrial electric vehicles.
Kevin Harkin, sales director for Smith Electric Vehicles said: “Over the past three years one of the highest levels of enquiry we have received from any country came from Spain. This is an extremely important market to us, so it was vital that we found the right partner. Clem has the national sales infrastructure, but more importantly it also has the technical expertise to provide high quality product support to major fleets.”
Based in Valencia, Clem is involved in the sale, hire and maintenance of EVs, forklift trucks and aerial work platforms. The company has 130 employees at 16 locations across Spain, 40 mobile service engineers and an equipment hire fleet of more than 2,000 machines. It is part of global equipment rental specialist Riwal.
Kevin Harkin of SEV with Alejandro and Jose from Clem
Alejandro Sánchez Lupiañez, director of Clem’s ecological division, said: “There is a huge, un-tapped demand for commercial electric vehicles in Spain. Smith Electric Vehicles has proven products that we know will be a perfect fit with our customers’ fleet requirements.”
“Smith Electric Vehicles produces the Smith Edison light commercial vehicle in 18 configurations of panel van and chassis cab, plus a further six variants of an all-electric minibus,” he said. “All are based on the Ford Transit platform, with a range of up to 100 miles on a single charge, recharge time from as little as three hours and a top speed of 50mph.”
Clem will take delivery of its first Smith Electric vehicles in early 2011. These demonstration vehicles will go straight into trials with major fleet operators.
Other distributors recently appointed by Smith Electric Vehicles include Northern Lights Energy in Iceland, ElecTruckCity in France and Electric Vehicles Ireland.
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