Scroll forward to 52mins 30secs for a Shelby Mustang vs G-Wiz drag race...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUi37CLIFI
8 Jan 2022, 2:46pm
Going all electric, watch this video first !
8 Jan 2022, 5:44pm
Hmm, a quick Google suggests a minimum daily drive for a delivery driver in a city is 80 miles. More rural locations appear to be closer to 200 miles a day.
9 Jan 2022, 10:51am
Hmm, a quick Google suggests a minimum daily drive for a delivery driver in a city is 80 miles. More rural locations appear to be closer to 200 miles a day.
Yep, so an 80 mile range is completely indadequate for 99% of delivery drivers.
The issues with commercial vehicles and EV power really are weight and space. In order to put enough batteries in to move the kind of loads the van will get filled up with the kind of distance they need to go, the batteries will encroach into the load space and increase the weight to the point where you'll need an HGV licence to transport a single fridge.
9 Jan 2022, 2:15pm
We need to think smaller and lighter then EV's become more efficient. A typical EV car will do 90 - 130 mpg equivalent, an electric bike is closer to 2000 mpg . Something in the middle will work even if the load space is smaller and payload weight is less. There might be a magic size and shape .........
https://www.tukxi.com/for-sale.html
https://www.tukxi.com/for-sale.html
9 Jan 2022, 6:54pm
I love those little three-wheelers, they're great for getting stuff delivered down the narrow back streets in Italian towns and cities and they'd definitely work for short hop deliveries in our towns and cities with EV motors.
Years ago when we were operating out of Akrotiri in Cyprus, a Cypriot entrpreneur used to drive one down the flight line selling orange juice and doughnuts out of the side. The van was affectionately known as 'Grub-Bug'.
He was an absolute man mountain, Lord knows how he used to squeeze himself into the cab. He didn't need a jingle playing to let us know he'd arrived as he'd just bellow his catch-phases of Sexy Orange! and Sexy Doughnuts! as he drove along, and his voice was loud enough to carry even when we had a row of jet fighters running their engines up.
One year we arrived only to see Grub=Bug laying on its side in the scrapyard near the base looking all forlorn. That was a sad day
Years ago when we were operating out of Akrotiri in Cyprus, a Cypriot entrpreneur used to drive one down the flight line selling orange juice and doughnuts out of the side. The van was affectionately known as 'Grub-Bug'.
He was an absolute man mountain, Lord knows how he used to squeeze himself into the cab. He didn't need a jingle playing to let us know he'd arrived as he'd just bellow his catch-phases of Sexy Orange! and Sexy Doughnuts! as he drove along, and his voice was loud enough to carry even when we had a row of jet fighters running their engines up.
One year we arrived only to see Grub=Bug laying on its side in the scrapyard near the base looking all forlorn. That was a sad day
12 Jan 2022, 6:19pm
I'm doing some contract work at the moment, the place I'm at just took delivery of an eSprinter. Apparently it only has a 70 mile range !! They've got it on a lease arrangement because it was "cheap" ! I can only imagine it was cheap because nobody in their right mind wanted it.
It's like buying a conventional van with a two gallon fuel tank, you just wouldn't want it ! It will be like driving around with the fuel warning light on and wondering the WHOLE time where you can fill up !
It's like buying a conventional van with a two gallon fuel tank, you just wouldn't want it ! It will be like driving around with the fuel warning light on and wondering the WHOLE time where you can fill up !