Steves via EV wrote:
Good article about postal vehicles and why they should be electric.
https://www.greatbusinessschools.org/usps-long-life-vehicle/
Biggest take aways:
- 96% of them drive less than 40 miles a day.
- current vehicles get 9 MPG
- 83% are urban (think pollution)
Such a perfect fit for an EV
Ah, but those are the technical reasons. What counts are the political
and emotional reasons.
The USPS has tried EVs quite a few times. They have always "failed"; not
for technical reasons, but because the management and postal workers
disliked them, and opposed them in every way possible. In extreme cases,
the vehicles were even sabatoged to make *sure* they failed.
My dad was a career postal employee. His "inside view" was that the
postal union hated EVs; they were a disruptive technology that got in
the way of "how we've always done things". EVs put limits on how and
where postal workers could drive them. There was extra record-keeping,
and it was harder to charge them than to put gas in. EVs also threatened
the postal mechanic's jobs.
Lower-level managers were also opposed. They didn't like to be told from
"on high" how to do things. The postal bureaucracy is strong and deep,
and mightily opposed to change. It's going to be mighty hard to overcome
that prejudice and inertia.
Lee Hart
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about. It's very serious, and interferes completely with your work. The
trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! (Richard Feynman)
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