Basil Jet wrote on 20 Jul 2016 at 19:55 ...
On 2016\07\20 19:22, wrote:
In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:
On 2016\07\20 06:47, Roland Perry wrote:
Would a pure electric taxi/private hire car be able to do the Heathrow
or Gatwick run on one charge?
LOL. London taxis get rides to Salisbury, Liverpool, Sheffield or
Hull with zero warning in advance.
Unlike London, Cambridge does not have a uniform taxi fleet. So there is
room for petrol and diesel vehicles as well as electric, together with
saloons and vans/London-type cabs.
But who would want to be the taxi driver that has to turn down every
long job because his vehicle is not fit for it? It could work for a PH
company to give the drivers a rota in the different vehicles, but taxis
can't operate like this. Every taxi has to have enough range for any
conceivable job.
Well, that's the way it's arranged currently, apparently. But if a taxi
driver gets hailed by people who want to go to Hull, presumably he has
the option to refuse them, if only because it would take him over the n
hours per day driving limit. If so, a shortage of available driving
hours can apply equally to the car or the driver; it doesn't make much
difference.
In a sensible world, the taxi driver could help the customer by phoning
a local minicab operator to book the trip to Hull, and get commission
for doing so. But I guess we're a long way from such a joined-up solution.
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Richard J.
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