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Electric van use for city deliver
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ELECTRIC DELIVERY is sure to come into use for inner c duties, says Chloride Group boss John Ray.
It was difficult to forecast how soon this would come about but many countries had officially recognised the need to support electric road vehicle development.
Chloride says it has made advances in developing controllers and chargers for higher-performance lead acid batteries.
71 Silent Karrier 35cwt battery-powered delivery vehicles have now been completed on Chrysler's production line. Some are now already in service in the UK, Australia and USA, and the rest are scheduled to be in service shortly.
Commenting on the deve lopment of the sodium sulp battery, Mr Ray said that IA the help of a il.9m grant fr the Department of Industr: pilot plant had been cl structed and will be comn sioned during mid-1979. I will produce sufficient cl and batteries for further de lopment and testing.
"The Sodium SuIpl battery is still an 'if' rat than a 'when' project, but E commercial proposition represents the most attrac1 potential battery of the futt giving at least three times energy of a lead acid batter! comparable weight, with all consequent benefits for url transport," said Mr Ray.