SOMETIMES, things just don’t go the way you expect. Like, it was supposed to be a simple, short suburban drive of Fuso’s recently released electric eCanter in Sydney’s west. A refresh, of sorts, of what we’d already experienced in previous stints, first in a Japanese prototype on Fuso’s test track and then, in late 2019, behind the wheel of an early evaluation unit through the streets of Melbourne.
What wasn’t expected, however, was that the Sydney stint would be quite so short.
Someone, apparently, had forgotten to flick the switch the night before and, rather than a full charge, the dash ‘distance predictor’ said there was only 58km-worth of charge in the batteries, rather than the reported ‘full charge’ potential of 100km.
Still, it was at least a worthwhile exercise…
