On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Roland via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> Maybe other delivery companies may change there thinking. For fixed-route fleet vehicles, so long as range and other capabilities are adequate, you'd have to be nuts to go with anything other than electric. The savings in fuel and maintenance are just so overwhelming in such a case, and none of the typical consumer concerns (legitimate or otherwise) apply. These vehicles are already typically fueled at the depot at the end of the shift or on some other fixed schedule, so there's no worry about finding a plug at some random spot on the road. (Go 100% electric, especially for new installations, and you can eliminate an awful lot of very expensive and very messy and very hazardous fueling infrastructure.) The fixed routes means that there's no unpredictability about range. Plus, if the car _does_ break down for whatever reason, including low charge, the company calls the tow truck for you and the fleet maintenance supervisor gets chewed out. Purchase price almost doesn't matter, as it's operations and maintenance that costs all the money in fleets. And both are a tiny fraction of the cost with electric vehicles compared to the competition. So, really, the only question is whether the EV meets the necessary specifications of range, load capacity, and that sort of thing. If it does, it's game over for any ICE being considered. Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150321/14805017/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
