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New Mail Vehicle to get 8 mpg
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33% reduction in fuel cost.
120 mi a day / 8 mpg = 15 gal
120 mi a day / 12 mpg = 10 gal
15 gal x $3.00 = s45.00
10 gal x $3.00 = $30.00
$15.00 is a 33% of $45.00.
Cost of battery pack replacement and maintenance cost on the system would eat 40-50% of that and we haven't discussed the additional purchase price for the original systems in the vehicle
The people I know with applications anything like this. F150 Hybrid for instance have seen less than a 10% fuel savings savings. I would have to see the route testing for this application to judge it's cost effectiveness.
33% reduction in fuel cost.
120 mi a day / 8 mpg = 15 gal
120 mi a day / 12 mpg = 10 gal
15 gal x $3.00 = s45.00
10 gal x $3.00 = $30.00
$15.00 is a 33% of $45.00.
Cost of battery pack replacement and maintenance cost on the system would eat 40-50% of that and we haven't discussed the additional purchase price for the original systems in the vehicle
The people I know with applications anything like this. F150 Hybrid for instance have seen less than a 10% fuel savings savings. I would have to see the route testing for this application to judge it's cost effectiveness.
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Nick1994
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The Post Office is not funded by tax money.
A fully electric vehicle was one of the three final competitors. I'm not sure why it failed in the head to head testing. They are replacing 140,000 vehicles so I doubt it was going to be cheap regardless.
Common misconception. The USPS doesn’t receive any revenue directly from tax payers. However, the USPS receives large sums of money from U.S. Congress on a regular basis. So it indirectly receives tax payer money.
Exactly. It’s coming from our pockets .
They want to force the rural carriers to use the Gov vehicles too. Around Christmas they have to make as many as 6 trips back to the PO to get mail to finish the route. If they are electric they better have multiple vehicles. My son drives one of these and no way would an electric last all day. He works 12 hrs or more sometimes. That being said he hates what they have now.
Dittos. The USPS loses a ton of money every year. We make up for for it.
Nick1994
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The difference is our military is something we can be proud of.
As far as rural carriers, does anyone know how they determine whether or not personal vehicles are used vs a USPS vehicle? Not sure if any rural carriers use the Grummans or not, at least around here they all use personal vehicles and most are right hand drive.
Nick1994
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I'm pretty sure the rural carriers are independent contractors and not employees of the USPS. Even some of the rural post offices are contract. The ones you see in what look like old USPS vehicles bought them when USPS sold them. Some of the rural carriers here used the old Postal Jeeps after the USPS bought the Grummans.
I don't know who is making RHD US Spec Cars now. Subaru quit. Jeep may still have a model. Bench seat column shift cars are rare now so it's hard to find a LHD suitable to drive from the right.
