Funnily enough, I was chatting with our vet at about 4.30am this morning about electric vehicles.
I had to call him out to carry out an urgent caesarean on a heifer. He had travelled well over 250 miles during his ‘on call shift’ including being parked up for almost two hours, headlights ablaze to illuminate another caesarean on a heifer in the middle of a field, immediately before driving to our farm.
He said electric vehicles were totally impractical for people in his profession, where they can be called out at any time 24/7 and have to drive many miles to get to isolated farms etc. Then illuminate a scene and often have to return to the practice to collect urgent veterinary drugs etc.
Or indeed any profession where you can be called out without warning 24/7 and must drive many miles or go from job to job without having time to go to a ‘hub’.
Couple that with a complete lack of charging infrastructure out in the sticks and you can see where the shortcomings are.
Yes, over time these things maybe overcome, but we are nowhere near a solution yet.