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It’s not a case of arguing , Ime just stating the facts from my point of view , half these charging points don’t exist apart from on a map , and a number of them that do exist arnt working and haven’t for over a year , maybe the map is showing proposed sites ?.. again Ime not against electric vehicles but we travel to ,Bristol, Bath, Oxford , and London every 6 weeks for commercial contract work , how many times and how long would it take for us to get there and travel around and get home again ?? With a 3:5 ton van ?? It wouldn’t be possible at this time maybe in the future but not any time soon , and I still say the manufacturers figures for range are totally misleading and don’t give real world true figures . I have looked at all the offerings of electric vehicles in the 3:5 ton range as I have just bought a new van a few weeks ago , the best range is a renault Kangoo that is way to small and range of 114 miles , the best payload of any electric van I could find was around 900 and something kg again no good for our industry . Perhaps things will change in the future but we will have to wait and see , they have 9 years and counting ????No chargers in or west of Exeter!
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It’s not my place to argue why you could go electric if you want to. But if you do want to change over then you may find it’s doable. Every one runs their business differently and I can only say that I wanted to make it work for me, made a few minor changes and, five years on, would never willingly go back to ICE.