KNOWSLEY Safari park is welcoming the silent type – to tame its fuel costs in the face of lions, Siberian tigers and the rest of the zoological attractions.
That’s because the Liverpool based Learning and Discovery Team at Knowsley Safari is taking on the silent-running 100% electric Nissan Leaf to its fleet.
The Learning and Discovery Team says it will help deliver its conservation and sustainability message to schools in the North West of England.
The team has two full-time educators who manage to clock up around 10,000 miles a year working predominantly with primary school key stage 1 and 2 pupils and often transport a variety of snakes, spiders and assorted creepy-crawlies to support their programmes.
The Nissan Leaf has been sponsored by local dealer, Nissan Liverpool in Sefton Street. And although we don’t have a picture of it yet, Knowsley Safari says it will be decked out in the park’s striking livery.
Sustaining the green theme, the Nissan Leaf is to be charged using electricity from the attraction’s own solar panels and is therefore entirely free to run.
Richard Smith, head of Visitor Services at Knowsley Safari, said:
“In many ways the LEAF is the perfect car for us. It’s fantastic.
“Because we’ve been able to couple our charger to our solar panels there are effectively no running costs and that’s a real advantage.
