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Re:Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird by jerf on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:18PM (#26478853)
Roll down to your post office during off hours and count the number of trucks. I live in a very small city (people used to SF or NY wouldn't even call it a "city") and we've got dozens.

Not sure where you're getting the 1000Wh/mile number, but if it's from "normal driving" it won't apply. Mail delivery is stop and start, which is much worse. (If regenerative braking was 100% it'd be fine, but it's nowhere near that.)

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Re:Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird by antattack on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:54PM (#26485256)
Model 3 in Winter with heating on uses 420Wh/mile when driving 70mph. I think 1000Wh/mile is very generous estimate.
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Re:Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird by jerf on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:43PM (#26495241)
I think you are all greatly underestimating how much damage it does to drive down a neighborhood, stopping every hundred feet, and re-accelerating. Cruising speed consumption is not a useful number here.
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