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Regarding charging this is also quite a good resource.
https://www.zap-map.com/live/
There is an area just north of Clapham Common which has one on every streetlight.
We have also got fuel cards which enable you to pay on most of the networks, from Allstar. -
Well it got through its first day ok, well received by all who drove it.
It drives nicely, slightly larger turning circle than the ice version.
Range is not much of an issue as the majority of our vans do less than 30 miles per day.
Payload is more of an issue, but I’m hopeful we can manage this by better vehicle allocation.
The cost will be between £7-800 pcm over 2 years which isn’t a massive uplift over a traditional ice. I have also been looking at electric trucks and they are at least 4 times the cost of diesel and really not that good.
Mercedes are doing it over 2 years as they expect developments and improvements to come quickly.
This one is conversion of the standard sprinter, a ground up all new electric van is in testing and development.
At the end the 2 weeks we’ll be swapping it out for an eVito.
I am very much of the opinion that even if it doesn’t fit the bill exactly, if we can make it work in some circumstances then we really should make the effort. If we can change 10 or 15% of the fleet initially, then that’s a good thing right? -
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Very flattering, but I’m not sure I would be up for it even if I had the time and space.
As for the sack* I dread to think how big it would need to be for a DS restoration.
Even this has cost at least as much as it’s worth, financially it doesn’t make sense.
As a project to keep your hands busy maybe so, but there are times when I wonder why the hell I started it and if I’ll ever get it finished.
It’ll be a long time before I do something similar.
That said I’ve got a couple of motor bikes that I need to do. -
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Cheers, the interior will be quite spartan the way it should be.