It also says the additional payload you can carry with the larger one so undoing what you said earlier.
It also says the larger one which 425 gvw payload 1758 kg(the government earlier this year increased the pay load from 3.5 ton to 4.25 ton on a standard licence (non hgv ) to accommodate the additional weight , 68 kwa 198 w the cost is £52000 and can only travel 196 miles The standard 3.5 ton ICE gross vehicle weight is 3.5 ton and can carry1472 kg weight cost £36000 and drive as far as you want ,fuel stations are every where
The equivalent EV is the 390 gvw and can carry 1408 kg and cost£ 39900 is only 68 kwa and 135 w and will do 196 miles if you are lucky , and you charge at a motoway service station ( Maybe ).
No incorrect, you are cherry picking the bits you wish to use, I do however believe EVs are the future but there is a way to go .The Chinese will get there first.
I assume you have a EV ?
No not at the moment, I had a hybrid version of mine but it was a compliance vehicle only around to tick a box, the additional weight did nothing for fuel economy so I handed it back to the dealer and swapped it for a petrol. Used mainly for long runs to France and south coast UK. I hire EV’s to try out models as they are available and useful inside London, great vehicles. Favourites are the Skoda Enyaq and E niro. But some of the new Kia’s are great.
Yes I have a few acquaintances who have/had EVs, the small ones, Zoe`s etc get a kicking, do not do what it says on the box, unfortunately it is the South Koreans and the Chinese that tick the boxes, the BYD is a terrific car according to a guy who traded in his very nice ( I thought ) Range Rover
The zoe is ok as a city car IMO, improved now since the early models, a local driving school uses a fleet of them. Your friend gets a thumbs up from me, range rovers are terible. Very recently going up the on ramp of the M25 there was a Kia EV9, the big one range rover size and a range rover behind him, the EV9 just took off for such a large vehicle, clouds of exhaust fumes out the back of the range rover but he was a long way behind the EV9.
Zeekr are a company to watch with their hi tec bus and other models, ok Chinese owned but a lot are built/going to be built in Europe.
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My son has a BYD as his company car. It is a terrific car. He drives over 2000 miles a month every month with it and finds it comfortable, convenient and super economical to run. It is also fast. He rarely needs to use roadside chargers and does the majority of charging at home. Top ups if needed are a 10 minute stop.
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My R5e had to go into the garage on Monday to have a couple of bits changed, they gave me a Zoe for the day but I didn’t rate it at all🙄. As I’m keeping my Range rover (sport) at least for now I’ve got cars at both ends of the spectrum. Nothing wrong with mine and it serves its purpose, but some early versions were a bit underpowered.
Its reliability issues that are the problem these days. I seem to remember a JD power survey rated them the worst. A colleague had a fully loaded one costing 90k 
thing was back to the dealers frequently and he traded it in finally having given up.
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90k is a lot of money for a car:thinking:…
…. thats it made my mind up I am not buying one …not that I can afford it anyway:zipper_mouth_face:
His Range Rover was very nice to be in and very well appointed, but not the most reliable vehicle on the road, when it failed there was always a wait for parts, one time the dealer gave him a replacement loan Range Rover and that broke as well, hence he changed to the BYD ,never misses a beat , its biggest problem he says is that it is so fast.
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Yes unless you are Max Verstappen its really not required and dangerous in some peoples hands to accelerate so fast. The new Zeekr which is after the Tesla market is 0-60 in 3.6 seconds I think. My old hotted up toyota could do it in 6.2 and that was a handful, mind you not having to change gear in an EV helps a lot but can you imagine that amount of grunt in the hands of a 70+ average person on a mini roundabout? Thats not going to go well.
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I am 77 years old and definitely do not need /want anything that accelerates that fast, its all tractors and combine harvesters around these parts, and they do not stop or give way to/ for anybody.
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You probably want something very sleek and low-slung, like an electric version of this:
… so you can scoot underneath them. 
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I would also need someone to help me in and out of it, but it is very pretty.
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Nah. What you really need is one of these. A McMurtry Speirling Pure VP1.
The only car you can drive upside down
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More battery tech ideas, this time from Milton Keynes.
It would certaintly draw quite a lot of attention in my area, a new san permis draws an admiring crowd. 
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Oh dear, nothing to see here.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/a2-closed-due-to-concerns-for-electric-car-after-multi-vehic-323167/
Nothing happend but believing in the negative hype
Well that link was pretty useless, perhaps they will only explain if you accept their wretched cookies?