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The clock may be ticking for petrol and diesel-powered cars, but it's
vans, trucks and buses that are driving the electric vehicle
revolution on the world's roads.
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Almost all car makers now offer hybrid cars and many sell fully
electric vehicles.
But the electric charge also extends to vans and trucks, and the
need to switch to cleaner engines is even greater given that these
larger vehicles are far bigger polluters than cars.
Even in a country with wide open spaces like Australia, the electric
wave is rolling out.
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Given there are more than 300 million commercial vehicles on the
planet's roads, according to data portal Statista, it is clear that this
goal need not be focused solely on passenger cars.
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"You can get super cheap electricity late at night," says Simon
Evans, deputy editor of Carbon Brief.
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"There's a whole bunch in Milton Keynes and Bristol, all over the
place there's really quite a large number of areas committed to the
electrification of buses," says Mr Naberezhnykh.
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Take India, for instance, which has an ambitious plan to electrify six
million vehicles by 2020.
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Some projects may be more tentative than others, but it's obvious
that organisations are taking advantage of their unique position.
Unlike most car owners, they can often afford to absorb the initial
cost of going electric - and make the business case for fuel savings
down the road.
Frost & Sullivan's Ananth Srinivasan says it it easier for freight fleet
owners to justify investment in electric vehicles because "when they
look at the cost for miles travelled over, say, two years with an
electric van versus one powered by petrol or diesel", the financial
benefits are obvious.
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