I've just done some sums and noticed something interesting.
While the economics of battery electric passenger vehicles just don't add up (ie the savings made from using electric power don't repay the cost of the battery over the life of the vehicle), the numbers do, surprisingly, add up very convincingly for heavy goods vehicles.
It leads me to the unexpected projection that the first widespread electric vehicles on the road, and sooner rather than later, are actually likely to be 40 tonne lorries!
In fact I'd go so far as to say that the technology exists today to build a 700 mile range HGV using off the shelf batteries.
http://www.benerridge.freeserve.co.uk/hgv1.htm
Any views on this, anyone? Or have I overstepped the mark this time? :wink:
While the economics of battery electric passenger vehicles just don't add up (ie the savings made from using electric power don't repay the cost of the battery over the life of the vehicle), the numbers do, surprisingly, add up very convincingly for heavy goods vehicles.
It leads me to the unexpected projection that the first widespread electric vehicles on the road, and sooner rather than later, are actually likely to be 40 tonne lorries!
In fact I'd go so far as to say that the technology exists today to build a 700 mile range HGV using off the shelf batteries.
http://www.benerridge.freeserve.co.uk/hgv1.htm
Any views on this, anyone? Or have I overstepped the mark this time? :wink: