Trialling an electric Ambulance

[dan_b]

Exactly right - the photos of the e-Ambulance I snapped earlier in the thread is for a patient transport-type ambulance rather than a Blues & Twos emergency first responder with a paramedic on board.

But even so, I can certainly imagine those types also spend most of their daily duty cycle simply parked up waiting.

‘Orses for courses as usual. Not all ambulances are required for emergency calls. There is a place for them in a fleet, as a a starter, just ferrying patients to and fro. See how they develop, as time goes on.

I expect that, eventually, they will take over from ICE, but not immediately. Rome wasn’t built in a day!

[Stinsy]

I think that even “high milage” duty cycle Ambulances would be able to work as a BEV. The milage comes primarily from the fact they’re used every day. Imagine 100-miles a shift, easily doable on electric, 1 shift a day is 36,500 miles a year, 2 shifts a day would be 73k mikes a year. The ambulance would need an hour of rapid charging per shift, but this could be while the crew are on a break or waiting for their next call. And AC charging could be used between shifts.