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Apart from passenger cars, green commercial vehicles were also on display at the energy summit including small electric trucks. Tristan Durivault, export manager for France-based Goupil Industrie, attended the summit looking for a UAE distributor for the company's electric utility vehicles. “It has to be the right distributor,” he says.
Goupil produces two tip-trucks of different heights as well as box vans which are commonly used in France by delivery companies.
They run on a bank of 24 two- volt batteries located behind the driver cabin and have an approximate retail price of €18,000.
“You charge them overnight for eight to 10 hours and that should be enough for all day, around 80km, up to 100km with the long charge vehicles,” Durivault explains.
For now, Europe is Goupil's main market with 65 per cent of their stocks sold in France and the remaining 35 per cent across other European countries, but the company is keen to expand into the Middle East and North Africa.
“We mostly sell them to local councils, universities [in Europe] but who knows – out here, maybe palaces,” says Durivault with a smile.
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From "The National" january 2010
