Electricity can't hold a candle to this
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PROGRESS in electric vehicle design in 73 years has enabled the range on a charge to be doubled and maximum speed to be trebled but at the cost of reduced payload capacity.
On Route, published by National Carriers, includes a picture of a crude electric van run by the Great Western Railway in 1908 and having a range of 25 miles, a speed of up to 13mph and a load capacity of 2 tons. The vans now being operated by National Carriers can travel up to 50 miles a day, have a maximum speed of 40mph but a payload capacity of only 35cwt.
Over the same period the internal-combustion-engined four-wheeled goods vehicle has increased its payload more than threefold, its maximum speed fivefold and its range is limited only by the size of the fuel tank. By comparison the electric vehicle is standing still.