About a decade ago we tried to get those vehicles electrified, but the small number of miles killed much of the interest.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 29, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Was shocked to hear that the Postal Service gets an average of 7 MPG in the > delivery of mail. > > > > At first, I couldn’t see how those little jeeps can be so poorly designed, > and then I realized that the average daily use is 28 miles with 500 stops > over a span of several hours, during which the engine is running 100% of > the time (and hardly going anywhere).. > > > > Duh, it’s a no brainer to switch that to EV’s! Yes, the range would suffer > since the AC would be running all the time, but heck, the existing vehicles > don’t even have AC! > > > > The original thought of this post was the tremendous market for even simple > CONVERSIONS of those jeeps to simple EV’s, with the cost paid for in real > time by the gas savings… Till I realized that 18 miles a day also is only > 5500 miles a year, but still, at 7 MPG that is $2700 a year… > > > > Bob, WB4APR > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140629/95d004d3/attachment.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) > _______________________________________________ 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)
