Just from the figures provided, if you're using close to the range each day, it's €3500 a year in savings, one daily recharge cycle up to €7000 a year, two rech

Just from the figures provided, if you're using close to the range each day, it's €3500 a year in savings, one daily recharge cycle up to €7000 a year, two recharge cycles up to €10500 a year. And then perhaps reduced maintenance on top. It does seem quite significant if the capital and battery replacement costs aren't too high. I also wonder whether logistics companies can fit charging into their existing operations; delivery vehicles have to come back to a depot once they are empty, and there must be a period of downtime while the van is being filled. These companies also know the distances each van has to travel to deliver it's combination of packages, in effect you have the information to eliminate range anxiety. You could have a percentage of your fleet electric, and put them on routes which were high density and near the depot. You could then be confident that they will return to depot with charge to spare, and recharge them at the loading bays while waiting in the normal course of operations. This truck can charge fully in an hour, so assuming a half hour turnaround time for reloading, there would be no downtime on a route thirty miles or less. As the range and the speed of charging increase, the percentage of the fleet which you could switch to electric would increase.