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UK digital network Openreach takes 15 electric vans for a spin

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Probably not. Horses were always high maintenance transport.

Old motor vehicles were also high maintenance, chronically so in fact. Horses were't exactly known for breaking down every five minutes. As recently as the 70's and 80's people still accepted that from most cars. Compared to electric vehicles, petrol and diesel vehicles are still high maintenance.

The worry would have been having an adequate fuel distribution system. That's long since solved for petrol vehicles.

I totally agree with you here, the problems of distribution are quite solvable, and the more demand, the more that solution will evolve. It doesn't matter if it's liquid or electricity, we already know how to get electricity to places, now we just have to do it. No it's not there yet, but that is a totally different thing from saying it never will be.

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