All the delivery services are and have experimented with EVs, both battery and fuel cells electrics.
According to a presentation that I saw UPS give about a week ago, they have a number of EVs out there, though they have had some issues. In small towns, they find that their demand for electricity exceeds that of the entire town! So, for example, in San Bernardino County in California, they had to build their own infrastructure. Their main go-to alt fuel is now natural gas, and all new facilities or facility expansions are CNG/LNG. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 21, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Roland via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > Maybe other delivery companies may change there thinking. This last week, I > was sitting in a café and saw a UPS (not a USPS) van drove by. Saw the word > ELECTRIC in large dark letters on the side of the vehicle. It's the only one > I saw that had this word on it. All the others did not. > > > > This town Great Falls, Montana is not large. To drive to one end of the town > to the other end is about 10 miles. I only charge my Li Ion battery pack > about once a week which still takes less than a hour. > > > > I have read sometime ago, that SmithElectric.com is going to build a electric > vehicle assembly plant here in the U.S. because there is a demand for large > delivery vehicles. It was stated they have orders for 40,000 telephone and > communication service vehicles. > > > > Roland > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: EVDL Administrator via EV<mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org> > > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List<mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org> > > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 10:27 PM > > Subject: Re: [EVDL] [SPAM?] EVLN: Will replacement USPS mail-trucks > beElectric? > > > >> On 20 Mar 2015 at 8:53, tomw via EV wrote: >> >> The USPS has a long history of testing electric vehicles, starting in >> the late 1800's: >> https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/electric-vehicles.pdf<https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/electric-vehicles.pdf> >> Looks like it was mainly the suppliers who were responsible for them >> not being implemented. > > So THEY say. With all due respect, I'm more inclined to buy Lee Hart's > account. It fits in with what I've read in other places, particularly about > maintenance people deliberately sabotaging EVs. > > For example, though I can't recall any more whether it was USPS mechanics or > others, I remember reading about maintenance staff watering flooded lead > batteries by spraying them with a garden hose. Even if it wasn't at the > USPS, it's the kind of treatment that EV-hating mechanics have long visited > on EVs when they were added to ICEV fleets. > > I used to think that education would fix this. Having seen how calcified > many of these minds are, though, I no longer believe that that's going to be > very effective. IMO, the only way to fix anti-EV sentiment in the USPS or > anywhere else is for an EV-positive leader to take over the job, probably at > the highest level, and JUST DO IT. He or she should give the naysayers - > managers, drivers, maintenance crew, whatever - one chance to start doing > their jobs right, whether they agree with EVs or not. If they don't, sack > 'em and hire people who will. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/<http://www.evdl.org/help/> > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage > http://www.evdl.org/help/<http://www.evdl.org/help/> . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150321/151275bd/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > _______________________________________________ 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)
