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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by taeric on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:00PM (#36638231)
I'm curious if they have to have more vans than they would otherwise need, then? That could easily let you cover the day with lower range.

I'm also open to challenges in my thoughts on typical range needed for a city fleet in deliveries. Will try and take a dive to find more data there.

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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by Doxin on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:37AM (#36666231)
I feel like loading whilst charging would minimize the impact charging makes quite significantly. Fast charging takes what, 20 minutes? I'm not sure loading a van is much faster.
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Re:Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages by gambiting on Monday July 10, 2023 @02:41PM (#36671048)
Truck operators already do that - Volvo was saying that in the trials for their fully electric truck, charging while the truck is being loaded at the depot is fast enough for all day of operating. Of course that's not long distance driving, but plenty of customers for this kind of thing already.
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