230 miles. What's that actually going to be though with weight, towing, winter temperatures and maintaining what, 80 ish percent charge max to not kill the battery?
How close does that now get to their 170 Mile number?
About spot-on would be my guess. 170 miles is the 95th percentile....so even allowing for lets call it 70% range which is 161 miles, they'll still cover a massive proportion of the use cases.
Would they?
Average job range is not the same as max job range in that year.
Apart from guys like me who have a vast territory to cover, and drive 200+ miles daily, the only other scenario I can think of where my company would run into problems is when we convoy out to other utilities to help with storm outages in the wake of disasters. We sent people from the midwest to the coasts for recent hurricanes, and I could see it complicating logistics a bit, both for the transit and then operating in the area on spotty power.
But I bet there's a way to deal with the latter, like bringing along a couple of diesels and adapters to slow charge the electric fleet overnight, or carry some equipment to to draw from the grid anywhere we can find 3-phase.
