[ref http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EV-newswire-posts-for-20191124-tp4695705p4695707.html EVLN: 4000 Bimbo,Moldex Mexican-bread delivery e-trucks Mexican bread maker Bimbo to dabble in electric vehicle business November 16, 2019 Electric delivery trucks. Mexican bread maker Grupo Bimbo Moldex, a subsidiary of Grupo Bimbo, has been engineering and producing electric vehicles since 2012 and will be responsible for providing 1,000 units per year over a period of four years, the company said. The vehicles will be integrated into various distribution routes in Mexico ... Spicy tortilla chips ... https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/07/02/17/18621409/4/920x920.jpg ]
% Cor's post (above URL) got trashed, thus I couldn't access the attached image he posted. but the ms-office he used created some html that I was able to clean-up/remove special characters, so that we could read Cor's text I pulled out (below): % -(Cor sez) Regarding EVs for food/bread delivery: Not only is the milk float a great example from the past, but in my former home town in The Netherlands, as long as I can remember and to this day, a local bakery comes through the streets with milkfloat style 3-wheel electric vehicles (iron dogs) from which they sell and deliver bread and pastries throughout the town. They have been doing that for at least 4 decades and still going strong. There used to be a larger vehicle with all sorts of groceries coming through the street as well, but I think they stopped due to the service of home delivery by supermarkets. Here an archive picture of the vehicles from bakery Bijl - % I did several searches but got no-where using search words iron dogs (this happens sometimes, both since I'm fishing from a different country, and that country's sites are in their language). I was able to find one archival page which had an image (below) & I was able to translate it's caption: % https://beeldbank.regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/index.cfm?action=search.viewimage&img=serveimage%2Ecfm%3Ffile%3Dlarge%2F3%2F1%2F552%5F317458%2Ejpg (google.translate &edited caption: Regional Archives Dordrecht ... THE ELECTRICITY-DRIVING IRON DOGS FROM BAKKER AX ON THE REEWAY PATH ... The iron dogs running on electricity from the Bijl bakery on the Reewegpad. Building / institution Bakker Date or period 01-01-1980 - 31-12-1989 Keywords bakers carts iron dogs remember ... Bakker Bijl on the Reewegpad ... At fifteen minutes walking distance from Central Station Dordrecht) [ref (in dutch) https://beeldbank.regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/search/detail/id/4A735375958511E489FB00163E535DC5/showbrowse ] % I ask Cor to correct any mistakes. I think its cool to see how EVs have been a part of our lives around the world for many years (despite what the koch-kool-aid anti-EV disinformation/propaganda says, EVs work just fine). For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
