Liberty lands £24m Icelandic order
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Oxford-based Liberty Electric Cars has won an order for 150 electric vehicles from the Icelandic company, Northern Lights Energy (NLE). The vehicles will be delivered across Scandinavia, Iceland and the Faroe Islands over the next four years. The order is one of the largest Liberty Electric Cars has received and has a value of around £24m.
The Liberty E-Range – based on the Range Rover – is claimed to be the world's first pure electric 4x4 and, says Liberty, is ideally suited to these regions where there is a large proportion of gravel roads and an advanced electricity supply grid using a vast amount of renewable energy. "With relatively short distances between many of the major centres of population the Liberty E Range, with its 200 mile autonomy is ideally suited to the conditions in these countries," the company said.
Liberty managing director Ian Hobday said: "The Scandinavian countries are the ideal market for Liberty Electric Cars as the general policy on import duty is for this to be zero on electric vehicles, which puts the price of the Liberty E Range at the same level as an ordinary petrol or diesel luxury 4x4. The agreement with Northern Lights Energy is excellent news and indicates the enormous potential for us in these countries. "
Gisli Gislason CEO of NLE, said: "The relative low cost of electricity coupled with the increasing cost of gasoline and the desire to reduce the dependency on foreign oil make electric vehicles a perfect fit for these territories. Liberty Electric Cars' 100 per cent pure electric innovative vehicle technology makes it an ideal partner to work towards our underlying goal of radically improving the transportation industry across Scandinavia and Iceland."
