Battery-electric demonstrations in early-adopter-fleets

From the years 2009-2012 about 330 battery-electric passenger cars (M1) and light-duty vehicles (N1) were operated in a large-scale demonstration project in Hamburg, Germany's second largest city (pop. 1.8m). The vehicles were used in commercial fleets and businesses with half of the vehicles being deployed in large enterprises and the other half at authorities and public enterprises as well as SME. Currently, further fleet trials are under way in Hamburg with nearly 900 vehicles (M1, N1) which are eventually expected to be deployed in both business as well as closed fleets for neighbourhoods.