If we allow fully electric vehicles on our motorways then for sure some of them are going to fail going up a steep hill. Should the highways agency be planning to install charging points at the bottom of all hills do you think??
Denis, I agree, seems we need a sensible and pragmatic approach so we don't re-invent or discard a perfectly good, heavily invested in, re-fuelling infrastructure we have for fossil-fuelled vehicles that could be used for LCVs. We don't keep topping up our fossil-fuelled vehicles from a 'home or work refinery' to ensure we don't run out of petrol/diesel whenever we park up, so why the obsession with having to install millions of charging points to keep batteries topped up for a LCV era? There is an advantage with 'smart storage' when that comes along, that storage in vehicles could become part of a 'virtual storage farm' when the vehicles are not required, but this could provide connectivity in a number of ways, including trailing power cables.
Denis, I agree, seems we need a sensible and pragmatic approach so we don't re-invent or discard a perfectly good, heavily invested in, re-fuelling infrastructure we have for fossil-fuelled vehicles that could be used for LCVs. We don't keep topping up our fossil-fuelled vehicles from a 'home or work refinery' to ensure we don't run out of petrol/diesel whenever we park up, so why the obsession with having to install millions of charging points to keep batteries topped up for a LCV era? There is an advantage with 'smart storage' when that comes along, that storage in vehicles could become part of a 'virtual storage farm' when the vehicles are not required, but this could provide connectivity in a number of ways, including trailing power cables.
