Bit of confusion going on there as the heading of the story says 20 seconds, which is quite acceptable.

I wouldn't worry too much about trucks going 0-60 in 5 seconds though, can you imagine what state the load would be in?, and that assumes any of it was still actually inside the trailer as opposed to on the ground where the truck accelerated from!

Ditto if they applied the tech to buses and coaches! Its like when TfL introduced the 'fast' train speeds (70mph) on the Jubilee Line extension - the acceleration was brutal, but even more so was the deceleration when performing an emergcy stop, as I found out once to my cost, nearly (and ironically) setting off an emergency break glass I was standing next to at the cab end of one carriage when the emergency stop was performed and I tumbled, head first, into the break glass!

Many people still think that an electric vehicle will be slow like a milk float or hybrid Toyota Prius, but the huge amount of instant torque means far better acceleration, especially when applied to more than two wheels, hence the amazing 0-60 time of the Tesla road car, better than a McLaren F1.

Presumably all wheel drive, because at a mere 10bhp per ton, when my lorry is empty @ 15 tons instead of loaded @ 44, i frequently get wheelspin in 11th gear on wet surfaces, if capable of such acceleration most lorries would be almost uncontrallable unless in perefct conditions on perfect roads.

So they'd better hurry up and put another million or so bird slicers up and fan them if the breeze drops, because the electricity requirement in the utopia these high brows have in their boggle eyes is going to be staggering.

I'll make a little prediction here.

In 25 years time, almost all lorries will be either Diesel or Diesel and alternative fuelled hybrid powered, and they'll still be driven by someone, and won't servicing the needs of the probably 100 million souls in the country, with the overwhelming majority in England, be interesting.