Now,I tryed the Future!

A electric Powered 7,5 ton Truck
On Motorway uphill 40 Mph if Battery is not Low in charge (with empties on it)
And,…
Best you try it yourself :exclamation:

Mercedes?

Was speaking to a UPS driver the other day who uses one on city deliveries. He says the charges on them are so variable if you hit traffic you might have to cut a run short.
Hardly sounds ideal to me.

Scarab:
Was speaking to a UPS driver the other day who uses one on city deliveries. He says the charges on them are so variable if you hit traffic you might have to cut a run short.
Hardly sounds ideal to me.

sounds perfect to me that round about 15.00 have to go back to the yard becasuse you are running out of charge. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

The tnt depot next door to us has a couple have no idea of the costs involved but id bet they are more expensive than a standard diesel. I bet the only purpose is for public PR ‘‘look at us we are green’’

merc0447:
The tnt depot next door to us has a couple have no idea of the costs involved but id bet they are more expensive than a standard diesel. I bet the only purpose is for public PR ‘‘look at us we are green’’

and probably subsidies :smiling_imp:

I remember seeing electric bakery vans back in the 1960s The concept works but they would be better if you could have a spare battery to get you back to the depot.

I don’t remember seeing any milk floats running out of battery when I was a kid? they used to do a fair bit of mileage early mornings and all stop start

A bit of a blurry pic, but I used to deliver to a builders merchant in Birmingham who used this ex-milk float for local deliveries.

If i remember right doesn’t Prince Phillip have an electric Transit. Maybe he has an everning job delivering pizza :laughing:

welshboyinspain:
I don’t remember seeing any milk floats running out of battery when I was a kid? they used to do a fair bit of mileage early mornings and all stop start

There used to be a milk depot nearby when I was a kid, as it was on a hill most days you would see a few being towed the last few hundred yards by a transit milk float.

cypry0:
If i remember right doesn’t Prince Phillip have an electric Transit. Maybe he has an everning job delivering kebabs :laughing:

FTFY. :wink:

Hiya …not knocking anyone…this new electric truck idea was been used in france
midway through the 2nd world war…there was a chocolate company in paris that thought
petrol/diesel engines would taste the load , so they had electric lorries…i saw one of these
lorries in a museum nr Tours in september when i was on holiday. funny how manufacturers
think they come up with somthing new…see the maurice duffresney museum its well worth
a visit.
John