As a current UK HGV driver (currently on my break at services in a max 44t unit+trailer) a range of 375miles would just about cover the longest shift I do but some range anxiety would set in.
Longest shift is London->Birmingham->London with 3 collections and 2 deliveries on the route, and comes in at 275miles (if there’s closures/diversions it could be 300+) and the longest I’m stopped at any one place is about 45minutes so unless everywhere had fast chargers on their bays so you could charge while being loaded/unloaded, it wouldn’t get charged, plus at our company the units are basically handed over to the next driver at the end of our shift, they don’t sit around the yard for hours as they’re not earning if they are.
Interested to see how this would work in practice, I think for a lot of hauliers electric for their fleet just isn’t going to work right now.
Longest shift is London->Birmingham->London with 3 collections and 2 deliveries on the route, and comes in at 275miles (if there’s closures/diversions it could be 300+) and the longest I’m stopped at any one place is about 45minutes so unless everywhere had fast chargers on their bays so you could charge while being loaded/unloaded, it wouldn’t get charged, plus at our company the units are basically handed over to the next driver at the end of our shift, they don’t sit around the yard for hours as they’re not earning if they are.
Interested to see how this would work in practice, I think for a lot of hauliers electric for their fleet just isn’t going to work right now.