Smith Electric Vehicles

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Smith Electric Vehicle

logo
legal form under private law
founding 1920
resolution 2017
Seat Kansas City , USA
management John Dixon (CEO)
Branch Electronic commercial vehicle construction
Website www.smithelectric.com

Smith Electric Vehicles was a manufacturer of vans and small trucks with electric drive . Founded in Great Britain and later based in the USA , the company was the largest manufacturer of electric commercial vehicles worldwide in 2007 .

history

Smith Electric Vehicles was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1920 . It produced trolley buses for cities across the UK and for export to Commonwealth countries . In the late 1940s the company became one of the largest manufacturers of delivery trucks for dairies , known as milk floats . The Cabac , NCB and Elizabethan models were particularly popular . With the demise of the milk float in the 1970s, Smith Electric Vehicles diversified into the construction of other roadworthy electric delivery vehicles and was thus the pioneer for zero-emission commercial vehicles in Great Britain and the USA.

In 2004 the Tanfield Group acquired the SEV Group , the owner of Smith Electric Vehicles . In 2017, the company and the brand were dissolved.

Models

A Smith Electric truck on display at Autotec 2010
A Smith's Elizabethan milk float from the British Dairy Crest dairy
  • Smith Edison , a van based on the Ford Transit ; available as a panel van, as a chassis for any superstructure and as a minibus with 10 to 16 seats (plus driver). The total weight of the Edison is either 3.5 or 4.6 tons, and a payload of 800 to 2,100 kg is possible (depending on the battery sets installed and the equipment or structure). The range is 80 to 160 km (depending on the battery sets installed, the distance, the payload and the driver's behavior). The maximum speed is 80 to 100 km / h.
  • Smith Newton , a 7.5 to 12 tonne chassis based on the Czech AVIA with payload capacities between 2 and 7 tons. The maximum speed is 80 to 90 km / h. Depending on the vehicle weight and the batteries used, the Newton has a range of up to 200 kilometers. The drive of the Newton (120 kW from Enova) is supplied with electricity from lithium-ion batteries. Four different wheelbases between 3.4 and 5.1 meters are available.
  • Smith Faraday is a parcel delivery vehicle with a total weight of 7.5 tons and - depending on the configuration - a range of up to 160 kilometers. The maximum speed is 80 km / h.

See also

Web links

Commons : Smith Electric Vehicles  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Smith Electric Vehicles Launches in US; Targeting 10,000 Electric Trucks per Year by 2010 as of December 4, 2007
  2. ^ Ipswich Co-Op Vehicles