One buys electricity per “kilowatt-hour.”
The vast majority of progressive idiots, devoid of any actual science knowledge, think charging a car takes about as much as charging a laptop.
Medium-use electric vehicles use as much total electricity PER DAY as a three-bedroom typical house uses in A MONTH. (Plus or minus a bit.)
AND the electricity is GENERATED many MILES away, and there’s considerable LOSS in the transmission wires; AND the power plants BURN something (oil/gas) or use EVIL NOOKLEAR POWER — BOTH too evil to even contemplate.
Bottom Line:
EVs are NOT cheap, and DO make as much “pollution” as anything else — they just do it miles away.
This is not improvement OR “green.”
But it makes people’s poop not stink, and that’s what matters.
Oh, you poor soul. You are confusing rationality with virtue signaling. How last millennium.
This is another stunt. Probably someone in the board room has a relative who could supply “at cost” — plus his/its finder’s fee.
Big corps purposely implement “virtuous” policies just for good PR. Been doing that for decades — I got entangled that when I worked for AT&T over a decade ago. Pure BS.
The green argument for EV’s is dubious at best.
However, as a fleet vehicle for short range routes, which is what these vehicles would be uses for, this fits in the EV suite spot. Does it keep the planet any cleaner? probably not, but it does fit the need well enough, and prevents another separate account/bill off the books, as the shop is already paying an electric bill... if they use electric for their fleet, then one less account/issue to deal with.
Electric vehicles are a niche market vehicle, commuter type vehicles, and for this application, delivering pizza, that fits right in their sweet spot.
Does it save the planet? No, but electric vehicles for fleet local vehicles, do have arguable pragmatic advantages.