https://electrek.co/2017/08/23/royal-mail-new-electric-autonomous-truck-arrival/ Royal Mail unveils new electric truck made by Arrival Aug. 23rd 2017 Fred Lambert
[images https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/royal-mail-arrival-truck-image-1-e1503485873726.png Royal Mail Arrival Truck https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/royal-mail-arrival-truck-image-2.png https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/arrival-trucks.png Arrival Trucks ] Royal Mail, an important postal service and courier company in the UK, unveiled a new electric truck made by Arrival. The company is starting a trial today with 3 versions of the vehicle to transport packages between its mail and distribution centres around London. Paul Gatti, Royal Mail Fleet’s Managing Director, said that a successful trial could lead to a broader adoption of the technology in the company’s fleet of almost 50,000 vehicles: “Royal Mail is delighted to be collaborating with Arrival and pioneering the adoption of large electric commercial vehicles. We will be putting them through their paces over the next several months to see how they cope with the mail collection demands from our larger sites. We have trialled electric trucks before but not of this type of innovative design and look forward to see what additional benefits they can bring to our existing fleet of around 49,000 vehicles.” Arrival, formerly known as Charge Auto, built the trucks at their new 110,000 sqft factory in Banbury. They claim that the trucks are built using a “revolutionary ultra-lightweight composite materials that significantly reduce the weight of the vehicle and by combining this technology with Arrival’s custom built hardware, including power electronics and motors, the cost of operating has been reduced by more than 50%.” They say that they optimized the maximum range to weight ratio for inner city deliveries with battery packs enabling up to 100 miles of range on 3.5, 6 and 7.5 tonne trucks. There’s a growing market for those kinds of trucks as parcel companies are starting to see the benefits of converting their fleets to electric vehicles. Deutsche Post has been building its own electric delivery vans and they recently announced a partnership with Ford to build a fleet of 2,500 bigger all-electric delivery trucks ... [© electrek.co] ... https://www.linkedin.com/company/charge-r&d-ltd ARRIVAL(Charge Auto) Mobility the way it should be. Specialties electric vehicles, city transportation, mobility http://www.arrival.com http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4815644/Royal-Mail-trial-electric-vehicles-London-month.html Royal Mail to trial electric vehicles in London this month Aug 23, 2017 - Firm begins London trials of electric delivery cars with autonomous capabilities ... Royal Mail is trialling nine British-made fully electric commercial vehicles this month, transporting packages between mail and distribution centres in the capital ... http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/23/10/437C164100000578-4815644-image-a-2_1503480221919.jpg ... http://www.airqualitynews.com/2017/08/23/royal-mail-trials-large-payload-fully-electric-trucks/ Royal Mail trials 'large payload' fully-electric trucks 23.08.2017 Royal Mail is to trial the use of nine fully-electric trucks weighing up to 7.5 tonnes ... a partnership with the Banbury-based electric vehicle manufacturer Arrival ... nine electric trucks to be trialled by Royal Mail from its Mount Pleasant distrubition centre ... http://www.airqualitynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Royal-Mail-electric-truck-768x516.jpg ... https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/23/royal-mail-arrival-electric-vans/ Royal Mail is going greener with all-electric vans Aug 23, 2017 - The electric vans are among the first vehicles rolling off the production ... The partnership with Arrival comes just a few weeks after Royal Mail ... Royal Mail isn't the most environmentally friendly of businesses due to the ... number of vehicles it has on the road ... ... https://gearsofbiz.com/royal-mail-to-trial-electric-vehicles-in-london-this-month/22068 Royal Mail to trial electric vehicles in London this month Aug 23, 2017 - Royal Mail is trialling nine British-made fully electric commercial vehicles this month, transporting packages between mail and distribution centres in the capital ... For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
