Short range? I thought that USPS vehicles actually don’t go many miles.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Jul 8, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: >> I was around when a pilot EV program in Alameda was scrapped because the >> postal workers wouldn't plug in the vehicles. They all died in a week. >> That's one story. We dismantled the chargers. Vans were auctioned off. Here >> is the result: >> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3ezx4/post-office-delivery-trucks-keep-catching-on-fire > > It's a common story. USPS has donem many EV trials over the years. In most > cases, the workers "sabatoged" the programs one way or another. > > I got my ComutaVan due to a failed USPS trial in Indiana in 1980. Some > friends and I bought four of them from a scrapyard; all basically new (less > than 2000 miles on them), but deliberately disabled in various ways. > > My dad was a mail carrier, so I also had his "take" on it. The union > management was vehemently opposed to EVs, and the national newsletter full of > vitriol about them. So USPS management basically rammed the EV trials down > their throats. This created a hostile situation, where the workers *wanted* > them to fail, to "show the bosses that they can't push us around". > > In the few cases where management *did* get a buy-in from the workers, the > trials went much better. But the problems of short range and higher cost for > the vehicles still made it an uphill battle. > > Lee Hart > > -- > If happiness is on your mind, here's a daily list to find: > - something to do > - something to look forward to > - someone to love > - someone to take good care of > - and misbehave, just a little > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
