[Wayne Fowler]

Anyone got one? I'm lucky enough to have lots of jobs very close together and not far from home and thought some sort of electric van might be great for all these short hops. Cheaper to run, better for the environment... thought it might even be a selling point to some of my 'right on' customers 

[Darranvps]

Get an old milkvan!

[clearlyclean]

you would have to live close to the round,mobility scooter would be cool nearly got run down by one last year

[Wayne Fowler]

@Darranvps If I didn't look so much like Benny Hill I might consider it  
Now I think about it, I haven't seen the old electric style milk floats for years: are they still around?

@clearlyclean OMG!

[Darranvps]

Or a sinclair C5

[Blue Frog Systems]

Original milk float.... 30mph top speed, 30 mile driving distance, carry 2 tonne

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Leyland-Morris-Compton-Electric-milk-Float-/230549320082?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item35adcf7192

[Wayne Fowler]

What a beauty! I'm tempted...

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

Anyone got one? I'm lucky enough to have lots of jobs very close together and not far from home and thought some sort of electric van might be great for all these short hops. Cheaper to run, better for the environment... thought it might even be a selling point to some of my 'right on' customers 

check this on ebay looks jus wot
yr looking for item num
270649462624

[Wayne Fowler]

Thanks for that. I had in mind something like a Rascal sized mini van and the Mega vehicles like the one on ebay look close to that. Although the one on ebay is deisel, they do electric ones too... more investigation required. It might be too short to carry my ladders safely?!?

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

sure u could get a rack on it m8
looks cool as lol

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

its a mad lil van 

[Spruce]

Hi
IMO don't waste your money. Buy a conventional van. Ask Citroen about their Battery driven Berlingo's. Replacement batteries cost a fortune and their resale value is nothing. They don't even sell them anymore - a total disaster.
You still had a small fuel tank to supply the heater to keep the cab warm. If you forgot to put fuel in the tank it cost a fortune to bleed to fuel line to the fuel heater and clear the safety lock on Lexus - PSA's computer workshop system.
Look at the resale prices of a 3 year old Hybrid Honda car. Now compare it with diesel. We have a customer that manages 50mpg with his 1400 petrol Hybrid. The diesels do that anyway. The diesel and the hybrid cost about the same new, but resale value kills the deal for the Hybrid.
No matter how much Government support is for the electric car, it will die in a few years.
Spruce.

[Wayne Fowler]

I think you're right. It would be a waste of money at this stage. However, I don't agree that the electric car will die though. As fuel prices continue to rise, battery technology will continue to improve and get cheaper. I think the majority of new cars will be hybrid in the not too distant future, followed by full electric once the technology catches up... but I've been wrong before!

[Soupy]

Hi
IMO don't waste your money. Buy a conventional van. Ask Citroen about their Battery driven Berlingo's. Replacement batteries cost a fortune and their resale value is nothing. They don't even sell them anymore - a total disaster.
You still had a small fuel tank to supply the heater to keep the cab warm. If you forgot to put fuel in the tank it cost a fortune to bleed to fuel line to the fuel heater and clear the safety lock on Lexus - PSA's computer workshop system.
Look at the resale prices of a 3 year old Hybrid Honda car. Now compare it with diesel. We have a customer that manages 50mpg with his 1400 petrol Hybrid. The diesels do that anyway. The diesel and the hybrid cost about the same new, but resale value kills the deal for the Hybrid.
No matter how much Government support is for the electric car, it will die in a few years.
Spruce.

Some things never change 

[Spruce]

Hi
IMO don't waste your money. Buy a conventional van. Ask Citroen about their Battery driven Berlingo's. Replacement batteries cost a fortune and their resale value is nothing. They don't even sell them anymore - a total disaster.
You still had a small fuel tank to supply the heater to keep the cab warm. If you forgot to put fuel in the tank it cost a fortune to bleed to fuel line to the fuel heater and clear the safety lock on Lexus - PSA's computer workshop system.
Look at the resale prices of a 3 year old Hybrid Honda car. Now compare it with diesel. We have a customer that manages 50mpg with his 1400 petrol Hybrid. The diesels do that anyway. The diesel and the hybrid cost about the same new, but resale value kills the deal for the Hybrid.
No matter how much Government support is for the electric car, it will die in a few years.
Spruce.

Some things never change 

 
I love it.

It's amazing how things change with time. 

Those first battery driven Berlingos were a total waste of money and very quickly disappeared from the market. They used lead acid batteries and had a 1 gallon diesel tank and a Webasto thermo top for heating.  Nobody filled the diesel tank so none of the vans had a working heater and windscreen demister.

Citroen came out with the idea that you bought the van but rented the batteries. That concept just didn't go down well with customers.

I'm not even sure lithium was around then.

Back  then we only had the old milk carts to compare with.  They were alright when then carts were new, but the packs of batteries soon became a charging nightmare back at the depot.