Here's a link to Rodrick Wilde's 'Gone Postal' upgrade of an EV PO van http://www.nedra.com/movies/pso04/gone_postal_maiden_voyage.mov and a description of its components http://www.thefoat.com/fa/m-my_blog_comments/blog_id-1110 and another Utube vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tFVgSwQ62g
Rush www.TucsonEV.com > -----Original Message----- > From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Hart via EV > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 1:37 PM > To: EVDL Administrator; Electric Vehicle Discussion List > Subject: Re: [EVDL] EV potential - Postal Service and 7 MPG average > > EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > > It appears to me that EVs have not yet been a success in postal > > delivery. I can't understand why not. Anyone with other (I hope more > > positive) information please post it. > > I have some information on this regarding the US Postal Service's efforts. > > The Post Office itself has always been against the idea. But several times, Congress > has forced them to try pilot EV programs. As you might expect, politics wound up > playing a bigger role than engineering. > > Many of the suppliers had little or no experience building such vehicles. There were > thus serious "teething" problems with all vehicle systems, not just the EV > components (body integrity, safety, brakes, steering, etc.) > > My father was a mail carrier, and a staunch member of the NALC (postal union). The > union was dead set against EVs, and their members often went out of their way to > sabotage the EV pilot programs. > > Nevertheless, some of the vehicles that weren't purposely wrecked performed > well. The EVs from Smith's Electric Vehicles in England did very well, since they > have been building on-road EV delivery vehicles for 50+years. But they couldn't be > chosen because they were "foreign". > AM General supplied some DJ5 Postal Jeep EV conversions that worked exactly like > their ICE versions. However, they already had the contract for ICE postal jeeps, and > like every other auto company, they had zero interest in changing them to EVs. > > -- > The most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing one that is just good > enough. -- Eric S. Raymond > -- > Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3986/7765 - Release Date: 06/29/14 _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
