Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production

Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by anentropic on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:37AM (#14096670)

not if existing vehicle is already more expensive than it needs to be, due to meeting non-requirements for DHL

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:44AM (#14096702)

They're charging 32000 euros for those things, that's a lot of budget to work with.

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by skriticos2 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:22AM (#14098533)

economics 101: they are selling them to third parties for that price (including some profit and negotiation margin). So they likely pay somewhere around 20-25k for internal use. That's ridiculously cheap for this kind of purpose built vessle.

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by r00fus on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:15PM (#14100260)

Based on this report of what the USPS is asking to replace an ages-old design mail truck [1] ($30k per), EUR 25k sounds pretty dang good for a purpose built small-run pure-electric vehicle. I'd bet they could easily get the costs down to 15K EUR with appropriate volumes.

Maintenance costs on electric vehicles are a lot less, and obviously they don't use fuel, so that costs less too.

[1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/06/broken_...

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:42PM (#14100545)

They don't use fossil fuels, but they do need to be charged, and a fleet of them would need some added infrastructure to charge simultaneously. But that's a one-time cost, in the long run they should be cheaper to operate, clearly.

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by allengeorge on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:37AM (#14097509)

For an already customized version. Once you start by buying a stock electric vehicle you've already blown a large chunk of your budget.

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by jacquesm on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:43AM (#14097552)

http://business.citroen.nl/bedrijfswagens/citroen-berlingo-e...

Which leaves 8K to do the customization and would not require the capital investment, on top of that they would have a much higher resale value when no longer needed.

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by josefx on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:15AM (#14097873)

The largest model of that has less load volume than the smallest "Work" model. Customizing that is going to cost.

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Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production by Klinky on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:35AM (#14098052)

Modifying 10,000 vehicles will certainly require large capital investment.

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