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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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    Sparkingchip:

    When talking to customers I quite often point out that their fuse board is the same age as a Morris Minor or a Ford Anglia and whilst you can use those cars safely you would not put a caravan behind one to tow it to Cornwall at 50 mph to go on holiday.


    I don't think that anybody would ever have used one of those to tow a caravan. (Father had one of the latter RRG 677.)


    Don't forget that that was the era of Apollo and Concord(e).


    It seems remarkable to me that manned space flight and v. fast travel have stagnated. That said, long-, or even short-distance video conferencing has, perhaps, made the latter unimportant.


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    Sparkingchip:

    When talking to customers I quite often point out that their fuse board is the same age as a Morris Minor or a Ford Anglia and whilst you can use those cars safely you would not put a caravan behind one to tow it to Cornwall at 50 mph to go on holiday.


    I don't think that anybody would ever have used one of those to tow a caravan. (Father had one of the latter RRG 677.)


    Don't forget that that was the era of Apollo and Concord(e).


    It seems remarkable to me that manned space flight and v. fast travel have stagnated. That said, long-, or even short-distance video conferencing has, perhaps, made the latter unimportant.


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