To: rktman
Actually, electric vehicles could make sense for the fleets of small trucklets that are used to deliver mail in my semi-rural residential area. We've got mailboxes every 150 feet for miles, and it's a good match for smaller electric transport because it's stop/go/stop/go for hours.
Bigger parcel trucks, no. Long-haul delivery, no. But for small mailbox stuff, electric might actually make sense.
2 posted on
08/06/2022 10:47:12 AM PDT by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
I want to see the PO trucks in our rural area in January when it gets below twenty degrees.
I will keep an extra pot of coffee on hand in case the delivery person gets stranded.
;-)
9 posted on
08/06/2022 10:57:31 AM PDT by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: dayglored
Strip mined EV’s are green.
11 posted on
08/06/2022 10:58:47 AM PDT by
cp124
(80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
To: dayglored
Don’t buy I to the electric being green nonsense. Mathematically, it just doesn’t work out. The mining alone required for the world to go green would destroy yhe planet.
12 posted on
08/06/2022 10:59:04 AM PDT by
D Rider
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To: dayglored
They should build swappable battery packs.
16 posted on
08/06/2022 11:02:34 AM PDT by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: dayglored
yep...until they catch on fire!
38 posted on
08/06/2022 11:56:05 AM PDT by
gr8eman
(Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
To: dayglored
My local UPS trucks were electric...”were” being the operative word.
61 posted on
08/06/2022 12:49:24 PM PDT by
lewislynn
(Trump accomplished more in one term than any one President in your lifetime.)
To: dayglored
Right up until one burst into flames and takes the fleet with it.
They’d be better off with a safer hybrid for fuel economy.
69 posted on
08/06/2022 1:22:34 PM PDT by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: dayglored
Actually, USPS engineers studied the battery performance and concluded that the problem is the stop-and-go nature of mail delivery. It’s a battery killer.
To: dayglored
Actually, electric vehicles could make sense for the fleets of small trucklets that are used to deliver mail in my semi-rural residential area. We've got mailboxes every 150 feet for miles, and it's a good match for smaller electric transport because it's stop/go/stop/go for hours.True. But EVs are expensive. A typical ICE car would cost 20k. An EV would cost 50k. Might be worth it in long run but after 10 years, you'll have to replace the batteries. ICE vehicles will still be running in 30 years, if the Post Office decides to purchase them.
To: dayglored
“and it’s a good match for smaller electric transport because it’s stop/go/stop/go for hours.”
Exactly. And that description fits the majority of postal delivery routes. UPS and other private delivery services are electrifying their truck fleets for the same reason.
99 posted on
08/15/2022 3:38:48 PM PDT by
Pelham
(World War III is entering on cat's feet. )
To: dayglored
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