Support has to be there from the top, and it has to be generated downward, or
once again, the effort won't be successful.
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> On Oct 15, 2017, at 12:28 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV
> wrote:
>
> The USPS has flirted with EVs off and on since the 1970s. They've run
> pilots and prototypes. I remember an AMC-made Jeep body conversion in the
> 1970s. In the the early 1980s, the infamous ill-fated Commuter Vehicles
> postal vans went far wide of the USPS's requirements, essentially putting
> the final nails in CVI's coffin. Also in the early 80s were rather nice
> boxy prototype postal vehicles built by either AM General or Grumman (I
> forget which) and based on the VW Rabbit; at least some of these were fitted
> with an EV drivetrain.
>
> In the early 2000s the USPS had a small and IIRC rather short-lived affair
> with postal vehicles using Grumman LLV bodies on Ford Ranger EV pickup
> chassis (the current ICE LLV uses an old Chevrolet S10 chassis design, and
> gets an excruciating 9mpg). The Ford-based EV LLVs I think were deployed
> only in California. Maybe Bruce remembers more about these, and will
> correct any errors I've made.
>
> None of these trial programs has ever led to serious EV adoption by the
> USPS. They seemed to be more window dressing than anything, and I also
> heard rumors of outright sabotage by their mechanics (this has happened with
> many corporate EV fleet tests in the past).
>
> The USPS wants a $25-35k price tag for this new delivery vehicle. I can't
> imagine the one described here coming in anywhere near that, especially
> since it isn't a pure BEV, but rather a true series hybrid, with a small
> onboard range-extension genset.
>
> I may be making too many assumptions, but despite what they say, I don't
> really think the USPS's top brass want EVs. So I have some doubts that
> we'll end up with a BEV or even a true hybrid delivering our mail. But we
> can hope.
>
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
> EVDL Administrator
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