15-10-2019, 08:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-10-2019, 08:47 AM by Mike Costigan.)
(15-10-2019, 12:43 AM)Phil Kingdom Wrote: The electric car at the moment is a novelty charging stations are appearing here and there but to have a nationwide charging network would seem to be almost impossible as every on street parking space would need a charging point, to say nothing about yobs unplugging them on the way home from the pub, the only way to make EVs viable is to have replaceable battery packs, drive in replace battery and off you go...
Giovanni Moretti came to the same conclusion eighty years ago; Italy was hit by economic sanctions applied by the League of Nations because of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, which resulted in an almost complete loss of domestic fuel supply. So Moretti designed and produced a range of electric trucks ranging from light 3-wheelers to 6-wheeled 5-tonners ... and added the nation-wide infrastructure of replacement battery stations located at most conventional fuel stations. Check out SAMEM (Societa Anonima Motocarri Elettrica Moretti) for more details. Needless to say, after the second world war Italy returned to petrol and diesel and the electric movement died overnight, and Moretti turned to manufacturing small cars, including 750cc sports cars!
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