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Or just start delivering it every other day, rather than daily.

Viola - Instant 50% reduction in fuel costs - and similar reductions in vehicle wear, and mailman payroll budget.

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You aren't a Letter Carrier! Daily my LLV carriers over a ton to start the day (that's only 50 40lb packages low average is 150 daily). One of the many reasons the PO trucks are POS, overloaded an under maintained.  An Rual Carriers have it worse. Electric can't do it or UPS would! Maintenance is a big problem just with the current fleet. Our trucks see a local shop that wins the bid for simple stuff. Other than that, it's a five-hour trip on a wrecker to the PO shop.

Yes, the new truck is purpose built, without an Electric Drive Train! If EV are forced on USPS, it will be a bigger clusterfuck then the Amazon contract.

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I would think a mail truck would be a nearly ideal application for hybrid/electric/regen brakes.

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Did it have to stop and go every 20 feet also?

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Do you want your mail or do you want your delivery vehicle sitting on a charger?  That MPG number is low due to stops every 100 yards. That is a nice improvement and reduction in fuel cost

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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/the-epa-and-white-house-take-fire-at-inefficient-new-mail-trucks/?amp=1

The United States Post Office's plan to replace its aging delivery vehicles has been heavily criticized by the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The letters, first published by The Washington Post on Tuesday, excoriate the decision to award a $482 million contract to Oshkosh Defense without properly examining the environmental impact, as required by law.

Specifically, the EPA says that the USPS's required environmental impact report "does not disclose essential information underlying the key analysis of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), underestimates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, fails to consider more environmentally protective feasible alternatives, and inadequately considers impacts on communities with environmental justice concerns."

Or, as the Chair of the CEQ wrote in a letter to Postmaster Louis DeJoy, his "agency committed to walk down a path before looking to see where the path was leading," in contravention of longstanding practices and laws.

When the USPS first announced the contract with Oshkosh in February 2021, it said the plan was to purchase between 50,000 and 160,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles. These, we were told, would be a mixed fleet. Some battery-electric vehicles, others using "fuel-efficient internal combustion engines" with an ability to be converted at a later date, "to keep pace with advances in electric vehicle technology," it said.

Within a few hours, expectations were significantly downgraded with the clarification that only 10 percent of the planned NGDVs would be electric, but the EPA says things are even worse than that. Oshkosh's proposed vehicle will only average 8.6 mpg (27.35 L/100 km) according to the EPA, a barely noticeable improvement on the current Grumman-made LLV trucks, which average 8.2 mpg (28.68 L/100 km). And there is no plan to convert any internal combustion-engined NGDVs to battery electric.

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Honestly, mail trucks are one of those things where an electric is going to be useful. Solar panel the top. Start/stop doesn't matter to Electric engines.

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Honestly, mail trucks are one of those things where an electric is going to be useful. Solar panel the top.

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Fuck, Take a US built Toyota Camry or Tacoma and put that box body on it.  Fucking done!

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Why do we still have USPS?

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Or just start delivering it every other day, rather than daily.

Viola - Instant 50% reduction in fuel costs - and similar reductions in vehicle wear, and mailman payroll budget.