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Re: U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs

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Post by pm_me_your_quan » Sat, Mar 04, 2023, 5:35 PM UTC

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>this is relatively trivial No it is not.

Why do you assume that? We were doing this 100 years ago for inner city trolly’s. Trains travel 3x the speed of highway trucks, vastly higher power draw, and we solved that decades ago. There’s even been successful demos of actual highway trucks and power delivery. With modern battery technology we don’t even need a continuous system just enough to keep trucks topped off on highways so maintenance is easy and existin…

e.g., the system deployed in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg&t=193s

Re: U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs

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Post by AdamN » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 11:18 AM UTC

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Yeah I hate turbo lag (it was awful on my old Tiguan). Start/Stop worked fine though - not once did I feel like the engine wasn't ready to go after letting go of the brake. I drive super safe these days though so it's not like I was jumping from pedal to pedal. I have an EV now (id.4) and I'm of two minds. The acceleration is awesome but the inability to do a full road trip is (mildly) limiting and the suspension/dri…

I'm in South Africa and the country isn't exactly ready for electric cars yet, so I went for a pragmatic choice instead; Toyota Land Cruiser with huge petrol engine. Yes, it costs tons to fill up, but it's not a car you just toss away as it lasts forever. There's also something to be said about longevity when considering the environment.

Land Cruiser/Prado is the car to have! I used to live in Kenya and that was the dream car (had a Rav4 which did the job but was no Prado). I do still have fond memories of my little manual Mitsubishi Pajero Mini:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero_Mini

Re: U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fleet, buying 9,250 EVs

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Post by anticensor » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

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Even at that last mile, you could use trams that take NATO bicons. 80 tonnes per 40ft container, which divides into four equal 20-tonne bicons.

Another consideration might be forklift pallets, except that the market is badly fragmented.

Bicons are forkliftable.