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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by lettergram on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:52PM (#30447726)
You can’t drive 8 hrs on a single charge. Particularly in colder climates with less population density. My mail is delivered by someone driving a jeep down a creek lol

From a cost-benefit perspective gas is still king. Otherwise you’ll need 1.5-2x EV trucks for every one gas powered.

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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:54PM (#30447761)
https://electrek.co/2016/02/25/mail-man-tesla-model-s/

https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/customer-stories/electric-mail

With an EV, it’s a function of route distance, not route time. Minnesota gets pretty cold! Also, an EV costs half per mile of a combustion vehicle.

Your next rural mail carrier (where the vehicle decision is local) could be driving a Model Y!

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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by gambiting on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:55PM (#30447777)
>>You can’t drive 8 hrs on a single charge

If you're doing a grand total of a 100 miles in those 8 hours, you sure can - and city delivery vehicles will do even less than that. Yes sure it won't work if you're driving hundreds of miles every day - but even with postal services that's extremely rare, those are last mile delivery trucks not long distance transporters

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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by labster on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:59PM (#30447823)
My mail is delivered by a guy who parks halfway down the block, walks to 20 houses or so, then moves the truck every 20 min or so. I doubt he spends more than a half hour driving every day. Obviously rural routes should not use EVs yet but this is not the majority of mail delivery.
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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by antisthenes on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:10PM (#30449769)
Your average car commutes at somewhere between 22 and 24 mph.

Even if we assume non-stop 8 hours of driving (which it obviously isn't for mail delivery), that's only ~185 miles of range in the absolute worst case scenario.

Well within the range of a modern EV.

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