page_title: Electric truck
section_title: Milk float
hierarchical_section_title: Electric truck / Types / Milk float
caption_attribution_description: English: A Dairy Crest Smith's Elizabethan milk float. A Dairy Crest Smiths Elizabethan electric Milk float for use of delivering fresh milk to peoples doorsteps. A Dairy Crest Smiths Milk Float. English: A en:Dairy Crest en:Smith Electric Vehicles elizabethan en:milk float.
context_page_description: An electric truck is an electric vehicle powered by batteries designed to deliver cargo.
  Electric trucks have been around in niche application areas for over a hundred years, but more recently the advent of lithium ion batteries has enabled the range of electric trucks to increase to several hundred miles, making them of much wider applicability.
  Electric trucks are becoming an alternative to traditional trucks, while creating no local pollution. Due to the high efficiency of electric power trains, running costs are expected to be lower. Their simplicity is also supposed to make maintenance costs much lower. According to the United States Department of Energy, the cost per kWh capacity of battery packs for trucks fell from $500 in 2013 to $200 in 2019.
  However, electric trucks are usually heavier than diesel trucks, the energy density of lithium ion batteries is far less, so very long range trucking requires recharging en route, causing delays, or the swapping of tractor units.
context_section_description: A common example of the battery electric trucks is the milk float. Since it makes many stops in delivering milk it is more practical to use an electric vehicle than a combustion truck, which would be idling much of the time; it also reduces noise in residential areas. For most of the 20th century, the majority of the world's battery electric road vehicles were British milk floats.
caption: A Dairy Crest Smith's Elizabethan milk float
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