marronier wrote:I'm thinking that electric cars sales won't take off until EVs are embraced by the commercial operators who will require greater range than presently available and a maximum speed of say 85 mph.
EV car manufacturers seem to be concentrating on high speeds and rapid acceleration at the expense of range , catering for a small market.
Err, I take it that you are not as old as some of us here.
I remember many commercial operators running electric vehicles. The market place has made some of them fail, while others have moved to mostly electric.
Ok, guess which commercial operators I'm talking about.
Milk vans were mostly electric, until most people stopped getting milk on the door step. Was that anything to do with EV's?
Right, how about trains, or the underground in London? Are they still running steam? Or are the intercity links running on oil?
We have reintroduced electric trams where I live. Are they not commercial?
Trains use to take goods to depots where they were then loaded onto vehicles that moved the goods locally. That could be done with battery vehicles, just like it was previously done with horses or steam lorries.
Sure, they are not "car's", but to be blunt, "car's" are not a "commercial" vehicle in the sense of desired by companies. Companies may buy "car's" to do a job, but they do so for what that job entails and the cost of the means of doing the job. I was talking to a Bosch service engineer today, who had travelled over a hundred miles (more like 2) to get to me and had to make the journey in reverse. He came in a car. Does anyone claim that he couldn't have done the journey in a petrol van rather than a car? If by some chance you are talking air port "car" rental, then if range is an issue offer "mini bus's".
Look the 2030 ban is on petrol or diesel CAR'S. Car's are personal transport, not commercial transport.
Ps, I have yet to buy or rent a electric car. However I intend to get rid of my petrol car in the next 5 years and start renting an EV.