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The "last mile" is often considered the hole in any "solution" to peak oil.

In terms of transport, an oil starved future could use a combination of ocean freight, river & canal based transport and long distance railway.

The last mile is the problem.

Turns out there are existing electric truck manufacturers which look pretty reasonable.

For examples: a full sized cube truck such as are currently being used by the likes of FedEx and Parcelforce exists in an electric only format with a top speed of 50mph and a range of 150 miles. Gone are the days of the old milk floats.



www.smithelectricvehicles.

Wasn't Clive Sinclair working on electric trucks and the like a few years back?

Unless they went the way of the C5 . . . always wondered why it was called the C5, as it was the first one. Maybe it was because you'd be 'lucky to C5'.

Cool! 'Specially if they use them in conjunction with these: