New high performance, zero emission commercial vehicle

Comparison with hybrid and conventional diesel vehicles

While there are currently no hybrid LCVs of equivalent capacity operating in the UK on a commercial basis, this type of vehicle has been proposed as the way forward in some quarters.

Although hybrid vehicles generate electricity, this is within the closed system of the vehicle and they typically have very limited battery (and hence zero emission) ranges up to a mile, if at all. Thus, while hybrids have a role to play in improving fuel economy, fundamentally they rely on burning the fuel pumped into their fuel tanks, which in turn generates CO2 and other local air pollutants.

Other manufacturers have claimed that their new clean diesels use less fuel and generate fewer emissions than hybrids. In contrast to either of these approaches, Modec vans genuinely create no local emissions whatsoever. Jamie Borwick, Modecs Chairman, has volunteered to drive one of his vans on a rolling road within a sealed box for an hour to illustrate the point. He is happy to extend a challenge to the Chairmen of any manufacturers of hybrid or clean diesel vehicles to do likewise.