18 January

The huge untold story of petrol and diesel vehicle range is what it costs the country, never spoken about. The range of a vehicle is a property of its energy supply network, not of the vehicle. Without that network, its range is zero. Here are 3 facts that bring it into focus: 1) 65 million TONNES of imported fuel is transported around the country, every year. Mostly by road. 2) That fuel is transported over 15 BILLION kilometres. 3) There are over 2.6 million tanker journeys every year. That's more than 7200 per DAY, on average. The costs for all of that are astronomical, to run, buy and maintain the trucks, in damage to roads, in the costs of importing the fuel itself, in building and maintaining service stations etc. With the transition to electric vehicles, ALL of these costs disappear. No fuel needs to be imported or transported or pumped anywhere.