I believe you could.
Thanks Stuart, you almost made me choke on my Co co pops.
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Glad I made you laugh.
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Brilliant.
Ironically Iāve clearly stated that I can live with EVās to the point of saying that I actually prefer driving the Jaguar I Pace to its ICE counterpart XE.Im sure the same will apply regarding F Pace if itās more powerful than its ICE counterparts.
Youāre obviously still pushing the same old personalised bs arguments.
That the artic configuration, using a tractor unit to haul the required practical battery load and bear the weight of a semi trailer, supposedly isnāt obsolete.Just because I said it.
@carryfast It doesnāt matter how much you stick your your head in the sand and scream iy wonāt work, it wonāt wotk, it is working. Ive posted links for you, of how and where, but still you claim expertise and deny the facts.
Exactly as you argued, with experienced men, about the 15 speed RR, a gearbox you have never seen.
Here we go Round 2ā¦ 
Get the popcorn out.
The confusion regarding the exact definition of the ādeep reductionā range of the 15 speed Fuller is understandably widespread.Not just me.
With the seperate switch and weird designation of what āshould sayā low, mid and high ranges not bleedin deep reduction, low and high.Deep reduction could mean anything splitter or range change.
Obviously no one has seen the thing until they actually get to drive it.
The issue of battery carrying capacity v payload capacity, of the artic configuration v drawbar, is obviously under consideration by no less than Volvo not me.
Volvo also seem to agree that the latter choice is the logical option.Rather than trying to throw umpteen tonnes of batteries on a tractor unit and then dropping the weight of a bleedin semi trailer on its back.
It aināt rocket science just like the 15 speed, low, mid and high range Fuller box.
The Swedes have got this.
Which obviously then leaves the issue of clean EV trucks v dirty red diesel fuelled freight trains.Will the Communist governments then want to recognise that inconvenient fact ?.No prizes for guessing.
Widespread, meaning you and the old lady down the road!
Iām not going to help you derail yet another thread, so if you have confidence in your arguments and conspiracy theories, take it elsewhere and I will be pleased to accommodate you.
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Iām not trying to derail the thread.
Iām talking EV trucks youāre talking 15 speed Fuller gearboxes, not me.
So letās say we need the equivalent of an F16 unit, with 100 gallons/500 litres fuel capacity bearing in mind tank options go up to around 1,500 litres.
100 gallons = around 4,800 kWh, 40% efficiency = around 1,900 kWh of fuel capacity.
It takes around 500 kgs of battery weight per 100 kWh = 10 tonnes of bleedin batteries ?.
So whatās better a 25t gross rigid hauling 10t of batteries pulling a 40t gross trailer.
Or an artic with 10t less on the trailer, to compensate for the weight of the batteries already loaded on the unit, before you drop the semi trailer on its back.
Having easily sorted that question and no brainer choice, will the Commy scumbags running the government then allow the required 65t GTW EV drawbar outfits on the basis of clean EV trucks v dirty diesel freight trains.
Take it here Carryfast, Black is white, A frame trailers, blah, blah, blah
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Hey, Are there any of you drivers on TrucknetUK going to be doing this? 
What a load of old bo11ocks.
I have never heard anybody in real life saying they would 'āLove to drive an electric truckā'or leave their job for that reason.
Who would leave a good job just to drive a certain type of truck, either power source or marque.
Itās like those type of clowns who take a pay cut to drive a Scania or whatever at a different firmā¦special types of idiots.
One of the supermarkets i worked at had gas powered trucks. as an agency driver i wasnt allowed to use them as i hadnt been trained on how to fill them up etc etc. All the agency drivers would spend the first hour of their shift looking for and waiting for a proper truck because all the full time employees had taken them because they didnt want to drive the gas powered ones. They have since employed 2 people per shift to go round and gas up the dang things.
Blimey! I can see the transition to electric/LPG/Bio-fuel trucks going as smooth as chewing barbed wire.
Do you actually believe that? Do you really think that people in real life even consider it?
Iām curious as to your reasoning here. Are you embracing tech as the way forward? (I donāt have a problem with that by the way, I think that if we arenāt moving forward we are merely standing still) or are you attempting to salve your green conscience?
If itās about the green revolution then Iām here to tell you that you are completely wrong. The closest we will ever get to completely sustainable and non destructive energy is hydrogen power or some boffin perfecting cold fusion. Anything else is simply moving resource destruction elsewhere to preferably a different continent.
Your crusade makes me think that probably you should move away from your petroleum based computer and go and do something else such as hanging off of a motorway bridge or perhaps glueing your hands to lane two of the M25. Except of course your evo stick is petroleum based. Hey ho, you cant win every battle eh?