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Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles were around as far back as 1907 with the Detroit Electric Car capable of 20mph and a range of 80 miles although one did a run of over 200 miles on just the one charge.
No doubt the oil companies had something to do with stifling the idea and although there were many variations of electric vehicles throughout the years the only really memorable commercial ones were the milk floats driving up and down the streets making the daily deliveries of milk and small grocery items – what happened to them and where did they all go.
Some would say the supermarkets had something to do with it and made us drive miles to them just to get the same goods cheaper than the milk float could deliver.
Nowadays supermarkets and similar frozen food emporiums deliver to us again and having realised the efficiency of the old milk float, some of them especially Tesco are starting to introduce electric home delivery lorries – there’s progress for you or is it just history repeating itself.
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