Renault’s all-electric Kangoo Van Z.E. (Zero Emissions) has been voted the ‘International Van Of The Year’ for 2012 by a jury of 22 European light commercial vehicle journalists.
This is the first time an electric vehicle has scored this honour and the Renault Kangoo Van Z.E. romped in, scoring 104 votes out of a possible 168, to beat rivals like the Volkswagen Caddy and Fiat Ducato.
Handing over the award at the 14th International Trailer Show in Belgium, jury chairman Peter Wieman said: “With the Kangoo Van Z.E. Renault brings the electric van within the reach of the normal European van user, thereby delivering a major contribution to environmental sustainability, one of the most important issues of the transport of goods by roads nowadays.”
Renault has been the light commercial vehicle leader in Europe since 1998 and this latest award for the Kangoo joins previous honours in Denmark and Ireland.
