U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
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#2How does this interact with the huge contract with Oshkosh a couple years ago to replace the LLV?
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Re: U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs
#4How does this interact with the huge contract with Oshkosh a couple years ago to replace the LLV?
I believe this is the 10% of the trucks from that contract that were to be EV
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#6I see Amazon's electric trucks in Berkeley quite often. I wonder how that fleet is working out for them. Of course the mail in my city is delivered primarily on foot.
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#7I’ve been wondering what the most repairable vehicle might look like, and I guess the USPS already put a lot of brain power into that problem. I presume this is ugly because it’s both purpose built and highly repairable.
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#8How does this interact with the huge contract with Oshkosh a couple years ago to replace the LLV?
That contract was investigated, controversial, scaled back, and might end up being cancelled. Oshkosh has never built small electric delivery vehicles. Their specialty is big, heavy vehicles. Fire trucks, concrete mixers, military vehicles, etc.
Using the boring but practical electric Ford Transit van makes sense. Those things are going to take over the local commercial van market. They're already in mass production.
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#9I’ve been wondering what the most repairable vehicle might look like, and I guess the USPS already put a lot of brain power into that problem. I presume this is ugly because it’s both purpose built and highly repairable.
Ugly is subjective. I see it as "modern style has been sacrificed to achieve functionality/safety/..." and that's a form of beautiful for me.
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#10I’ve been wondering what the most repairable vehicle might look like, and I guess the USPS already put a lot of brain power into that problem. I presume this is ugly because it’s both purpose built and highly repairable.
At the moment they actually are buying electric Ford Transits, not the thing pictured at the link. Looks a lot like a van: