Babcock International has been handed cash to explore EV propulsion in Army vehicles. Good luck with that ⚡️
There’s no escaping electric vehicles at the moment. It’s the hottest of hot-button issues. Everything from push bikes to articulated lorries is being aggressively bent over for battery insertion - whether they are obligingly well suited to it or not.
Of course, common sense would suggest that the MOD is currently about as well prepared for a shift to electric vehicles as a synchronised swimming team is to chainmail bathing suits. After all, it specialises in moving very heavy things over very large distances, two things that are mostly beyond the remit of current battery technology. Moreover, it likes to do things on a spectacular scale - Wikipedia suggests the British Army owns 6,781 MAN SV trucks and 6,609 Land Rover Wolfs .
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