No, but I definitely think surveyors for specific public entities, such as a city, county or other will get them first.
They don’t go super far and come back to the same spot every day.
We have some hybrid f150's and they go completely dead if not used for 5+ days. Ford says it's a known issue..no fix yet.
I'll stick with my gas f150, till that time comes..
Not electric but I worked with a boy in the UK who insisted a Fait 500 was the best car for surveying. He was in London and didn’t have to pay the congestion charge if he drove one. Seats out he could get 3 sets of legs and his leica gear in. Worked for him
For an EV all the boys in my old work have what we would call a van, a Renault Kangoo EV. Am in NI so every location in the whole country is about 2.5 hours away, which is basically a full charge. They were quite nippy and good and spacious. Should point out we are basically government engineering and needed to have them for optics/carbon reduction purposes. They were 4 times the price of the diesel alternative
I have an office near me that has a whole fleet of Kangoo EV. We only had the diesel one (until someone crashed it recently) but it's honestly one of the best cars for surveying you can get IMO, maybe after VW Transporter. 95% of jobs are 10-60 minutes from the offices and the times you gotta drive 4 hrs to the other side of the country you just gotta keep some backup diesel around for that.
I drive from home to the site.How would I expense the electricity to charge it. Have another electric meter??
It is the only thing that makes sense to me. Plus, I wouldn't have deal with mopes(= morons+ dopes) trying to figure out the gas pump or use the spot at the gas pump as parking spot.
Sorry for rant
You would need level 2/220v charging at home for a work truck.
Many of the EVSEs (proper name for the "charger") out there have app options for tracking energy usage.
This was a major point of discussions at the company I just started at - they do have a bunch of local work so in theory the main guys who stay local could run electric trucks. But they didn't know how to properly track the charging to appropriately reimburse the CC and they figured they'd get the 200v fast charger installed - then what happens if that CC wants to move houses? So many open ended questions that they decided as a company the good image isn't worth the hassles to switch to full electric.
You better believe the govt is asking themselves the same thing lol. They get a lot of tax revenue from gas sales. I know in a few states they've started to add a new tax on EVs to supplement their road use. I wouldn't be surprised if we started to see new meters with "vehicle reporting" included on your bill with an additional "road use tax" included.
About to build a new garage/office in the next few years. Going to install solar panels + home battery etc with all the upgraded wiring in anticipation of getting a few electric trucks, even if I'm not making the EV transition right away...just bought a new gas truck within the last year lol.
It's inevitable a lot of us will have em in the next 10-15yr. You better believe with Amazon dedicating their fleet to EVs we're all going to get driven* (badump tsss) into EVs for commercial use sooner or later. Once like every third fleet vehicle is electric the cost of gas is going to go up due to the drop in demand, and it'll be a slippery slope pushing all of us towards EVs.
We're also going to start to see a rise in availability of chargers when we really start to "slip" on that slope. Filling stations are either going to have chargers, or they're going to close.... I've heard it proposed that a lot of them might even run their own gas powered generators in the sort of interim period we're inevitably going to see in places where the electric grid isn't really ready to handle the charging (rural areas especially). Infrastructure is already there to safely store a lot of fuel, just need to install a backup generator to supplement what the grid can't produce at peak times...yes gas powered EVs lol.
Unfortunately there aren't EV chargers in the woods. Plus there's no way I could've done what I did this past week with a vehicle that weighs 4,000lbs more than our midsized pickup.
They do and I want one too. Price tag is like $35k new... I might wait a few yr to find a used one lol. I have seen some off brand ones that seemed more like glorified golf karts that were pretty affordable though.
I've been looking into getting an electric dirt bike and/or dualsport bike for years. All things EV bike/ATV show up in my internet ads lol.
No, but I definitely think surveyors for specific public entities, such as a city, county or other will get them first. They don’t go super far and come back to the same spot every day.
Hey hey. I don't want an electric truck.
Why? Do you not like torque?
We have some hybrid f150's and they go completely dead if not used for 5+ days. Ford says it's a known issue..no fix yet. I'll stick with my gas f150, till that time comes..
Yeah, that's a pretty good reason .
Not electric but I worked with a boy in the UK who insisted a Fait 500 was the best car for surveying. He was in London and didn’t have to pay the congestion charge if he drove one. Seats out he could get 3 sets of legs and his leica gear in. Worked for him For an EV all the boys in my old work have what we would call a van, a Renault Kangoo EV. Am in NI so every location in the whole country is about 2.5 hours away, which is basically a full charge. They were quite nippy and good and spacious. Should point out we are basically government engineering and needed to have them for optics/carbon reduction purposes. They were 4 times the price of the diesel alternative
I have an office near me that has a whole fleet of Kangoo EV. We only had the diesel one (until someone crashed it recently) but it's honestly one of the best cars for surveying you can get IMO, maybe after VW Transporter. 95% of jobs are 10-60 minutes from the offices and the times you gotta drive 4 hrs to the other side of the country you just gotta keep some backup diesel around for that.
Not for us here in AB. Is there even a charging station between Edmoney and fort Vegas?
Lets not get silly
I drive from home to the site.How would I expense the electricity to charge it. Have another electric meter?? It is the only thing that makes sense to me. Plus, I wouldn't have deal with mopes(= morons+ dopes) trying to figure out the gas pump or use the spot at the gas pump as parking spot. Sorry for rant
You would need level 2/220v charging at home for a work truck. Many of the EVSEs (proper name for the "charger") out there have app options for tracking energy usage.
This was a major point of discussions at the company I just started at - they do have a bunch of local work so in theory the main guys who stay local could run electric trucks. But they didn't know how to properly track the charging to appropriately reimburse the CC and they figured they'd get the 200v fast charger installed - then what happens if that CC wants to move houses? So many open ended questions that they decided as a company the good image isn't worth the hassles to switch to full electric.
That's a great question, come to think of it...
You better believe the govt is asking themselves the same thing lol. They get a lot of tax revenue from gas sales. I know in a few states they've started to add a new tax on EVs to supplement their road use. I wouldn't be surprised if we started to see new meters with "vehicle reporting" included on your bill with an additional "road use tax" included.
About to build a new garage/office in the next few years. Going to install solar panels + home battery etc with all the upgraded wiring in anticipation of getting a few electric trucks, even if I'm not making the EV transition right away...just bought a new gas truck within the last year lol. It's inevitable a lot of us will have em in the next 10-15yr. You better believe with Amazon dedicating their fleet to EVs we're all going to get driven* (badump tsss) into EVs for commercial use sooner or later. Once like every third fleet vehicle is electric the cost of gas is going to go up due to the drop in demand, and it'll be a slippery slope pushing all of us towards EVs. We're also going to start to see a rise in availability of chargers when we really start to "slip" on that slope. Filling stations are either going to have chargers, or they're going to close.... I've heard it proposed that a lot of them might even run their own gas powered generators in the sort of interim period we're inevitably going to see in places where the electric grid isn't really ready to handle the charging (rural areas especially). Infrastructure is already there to safely store a lot of fuel, just need to install a backup generator to supplement what the grid can't produce at peak times...yes gas powered EVs lol.
Not sure about electric but we are being forced to change from our v8 landcruisers to the new 4 cylinder ones
No thanks!
We have 2 rav4 hybrids and 2 gas only trucks. Hybrid rav is great for one person crew.
There’s no way it would work at our company with where we go and how much driving/idling we do
Not yet, but possibly soon. Waiting to see what interest rates do.
I’d like one.
We'd love to get an electric SUV, but they don't have the mileage range we consistently need yet.
Unfortunately there aren't EV chargers in the woods. Plus there's no way I could've done what I did this past week with a vehicle that weighs 4,000lbs more than our midsized pickup.
Unsure about a full truck but having something like an electric Polaris Ranger if they made them would be great for some jobs
They do and I want one too. Price tag is like $35k new... I might wait a few yr to find a used one lol. I have seen some off brand ones that seemed more like glorified golf karts that were pretty affordable though. I've been looking into getting an electric dirt bike and/or dualsport bike for years. All things EV bike/ATV show up in my internet ads lol.
>electric Polaris Ranger Aka a golf cart. Lol