Steve Payne wrote: As far as commercial vehicles Oxford were going to try and start a scheme where all the deliveries for the town were delivered to a central delivery point and the distributed within the town with electric vehicles, personally I don't see it ever working. Stolen/damaged goods let alone the extended lead time for a busy city centre shop. Steve
In theory, this will work but, it reality it will get a lot more traffic on the road. How? A artic lorry will carry upto 28 UK pallets. 48x48 and 36 Euro pallets, and eight wheeler will carry just over half this and a ridge will carry just over quarter,, each one of these vehicle are loaded to make muti drops therefore each vehicle can go to many different places..
If you send all these vehicles to one place, a distribution depot, then put them on another vehicle, if that vehicle can not carry the weight of the larger vehicle, you will need more vehicles to distribute the same amount of pallets.. If these Electric Vehicles are over 7.5 tonnes gross then the drive will need a Class 3 licence to drive. Great you might think, get more people off the dole queue, not really there is a national drivers shortage now, even with the help of the Europeans that have come to live here.
At the moment, many vehicles deliver to Tesco and Sainsbury's, ASDA and Morrison's Distribution centres for this same reason, to take the traffic away from the town, but how many of these lorries with the supermarkets names on the side do you see delivering to their shops in town.
Martin K wrote: Also might mean trucks could be at night only?? .
So how many people at shops off all sizes will want to open at nightime to take delivery, then you have people complaining about noise
I have seen solar panels on camper vans when In New Zealand, one large panel, I was readily informed 'It's enough to charge the battery to run the electric in the van when parked at nightime, when we sleep it will just about run the fridge with what's left'
Solar panels only have a 30 year life span as well, good news for the solar panel manufacture, so our panels will see me OK as when they need replacing I'll be too old to worry about.
Just my thoughts