Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production
by skriticos2 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:22AM
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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
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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_...
Re:Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production
by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:42PM
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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.