Battery powered vehicles have been with us for many years and acknowledged as the workhorses for the milk delivery industry, as golfing buggies and in many other niche or specialist applications.Latterly the impact of two major drivers has focused greater attention on the acceptability and benefits of electric vehicles, thrusting them once more into the headlines; these being the rocketing price of hydrocarbons and city pollution.
One leading edge UK manufacturing company, Zytek, saw the need for electric vehicles in 1994 when Co-founder Bill Gibson, a long-time exponent of light-weight, very high performance electric vehicles, began the development of what was to become the highest power/density ratio, electric vehicle drivetrain to date.