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To: Oldeconomybuyer

$9,600,000,000 ÷ 9250 = $1,037,837. Are you serious?


12 posted on 03/01/2023 7:55:48 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane; Tell It Right

Actually, from the article

“The U.S. Postal Service is buying 9,250 Ford Motor Co. electric vans and 14,000 charging stations

the Postal Service will also purchase 9,250 gas-powered vans from Fiat Chrysler in North America

The contracts awarded to Fiat Chrysler and Ford together will total just over $1 billion”

So $1,000,000,000 / (9,250+9250) = $54,054 per vehicle. If we assume that 50% goes to Ford for the electric vehicles PLUS 14000 charging stations - so the price per electric vehicle is LESS than $54,054 per vehicle (we don’t have enough information to calculate that)


Or you take the “The purchase comes months after USPS announced a plan to spend $9.6 billion on its next generation of mail delivery trucks, of which at least 66,000 are planned to be electric vehicles. “

Note that it doesn’t say how many delivery trucks in total - it says 66,000 will be electric, but doesn’t say how many will be non-electric

If we assume that total number of vehicles is 100,000 (just a number I chose, there is zero indication in the article), then it is $96,000 per vehicle - whether electric or not. but this doesn’t account for the charging stations.


43 posted on 03/01/2023 9:55:37 AM PST by Cronos
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To: DariusBane
$9,600,000,000 ÷ 9250 = $1,037,837. Are you serious?

Why are you dividing by 9250? It's 9250 EVs, 9250 regular trucks, and 14M charging stations. So probably closer to half that. Still waaaaay too much to be spending on itty bitty cheap crappy USPS trucks...
67 posted on 03/01/2023 4:44:06 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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