I’m perhaps more fortunate than most because I don’t live in a big city … I don’t even live in the ‘burbs of a small city. My partner and I live in a small coastal town with quite a small population and so we don’t have to put up with all the noise and pollution that city-dwellers have to experience each day.

While we get to enjoy relatively clean air anyone who lives in a city has to put up with a lot of trucks belching plenty of exhaust fumes that not only damage a human’s health but damage the environment as well. Sometimes I guess people in cities wish we could survive without those trucks but we’re society that’s built on transport and if the trucks go then society will collapse.

But when you see those trucks and all the exhaust pollution coming from them you just know that we have to provide an environmentally friendly solution to our transport needs and that’s where a Kansas City based truck manufacturer comes into the equation. Smith Electric Vehicles has been building mid-sized electric delivery trucks for some time now and slowly but surely they’re making real inroads (pardon the pun) into the truck market here in the United States.

Already major companies that need large fleets of mid-sized trucks for use around cities in the United States are knocking on their door and the company is currently supplying trucks to Coca-Cola, AT&T and Frito-Lay.

While car companies are struggling to build electric cars with a range of 60 miles before they need a recharge Smith Electric Vehicles is building 12 ton trucks with a range up to 120 miles and a top speed of around 50 miles per hour.

Big fleet owners are currently getting plenty of government subsidies to change from gas and diesel powered trucks to electric trucks such as those built by Smith Electric Vehicles so we can expect to see more of these clean and very environmentally friendly trucks appearing on our city streets in the future and that has to be a win for the environment.