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Electric vehicle census article

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Extract from a leading publication:


"A census of all types of commercial motor vehicle in use in Great Britain shows only 693 electrically propelled.

More text about weight of vehicles too long to type out here


It would appear that charging difficulties constitute the principal factor which has deterred potential users from purchasing this type of vehicle. This difficulty, however, is readily overcome by anyone owning a fleet of electric vehicles installing his own charging set in the absence of sufficient encouragement from the local electricity supply company."


It looks as if the provision of charge points is not a recent obstacle............


Any guesses as to the exact date of this prophetic article?


A prize you ask? Having gone through my test kit this weekend, I must have thought I hadn't got something to check compliance with 643.9 on several/many occasions over the decades, so have several spare ones with R Y B leads.......... 


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    My Daihatsu Hijet pickup (aka Piaggio Porter) passes one of the criteria for being a Classic by virtue of its age, but probably fails miserably on the valuation criteria.

     

    TYPICALLY, HOW OLD IS A CLASSIC CAR? 



    The age of classic cars can vary considerably, and there are several definitions regarding how old a car must be before it becomes a classic.  



    HMRC defines classics as being over 15 years old with a list price of at least £15,000, but to be tax exempt, the classic must be at least 40 years old. The Antique Automobile Club of America notes classics must be older than 25 years (with cars over 45 years old known as antiques), whereas insurance providers have a wide range of classifications.  



    As such, answering how hold classic cars are is an imperfect art, although generally, a classic can be any age as long as it’s older than the majority of cars on the road, was built after 1946 (prior to that, a car is in vintage territory), is no longer in production and has been deemed a classic by the motoring community. 

    https://www.total.co.uk/when-does-car-become-classic


    You can buy the Piaggio pickups new as electric vehicles, the range is only about fifteen miles, but you can have a spare battery to swap the flat one out whilst it’s recharging.


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    My Daihatsu Hijet pickup (aka Piaggio Porter) passes one of the criteria for being a Classic by virtue of its age, but probably fails miserably on the valuation criteria.

     

    TYPICALLY, HOW OLD IS A CLASSIC CAR? 



    The age of classic cars can vary considerably, and there are several definitions regarding how old a car must be before it becomes a classic.  



    HMRC defines classics as being over 15 years old with a list price of at least £15,000, but to be tax exempt, the classic must be at least 40 years old. The Antique Automobile Club of America notes classics must be older than 25 years (with cars over 45 years old known as antiques), whereas insurance providers have a wide range of classifications.  



    As such, answering how hold classic cars are is an imperfect art, although generally, a classic can be any age as long as it’s older than the majority of cars on the road, was built after 1946 (prior to that, a car is in vintage territory), is no longer in production and has been deemed a classic by the motoring community. 

    https://www.total.co.uk/when-does-car-become-classic


    You can buy the Piaggio pickups new as electric vehicles, the range is only about fifteen miles, but you can have a spare battery to swap the flat one out whilst it’s recharging.


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