New USPS Vans Get Worse Fuel Economy Than A Ram TRX

[Guard Dad]

New USPS Vans Get Worse Fuel Economy Than A Ram TRX

The United States Postal Service will soon retire its fleet of Grumman Long Life Vehicles (LLV) that have been in service since 1987 and went out of production in 1994. Oshkosh Defense is slated to supply 165,000 new Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV) to the USPS using engines...

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[Paxilpapa]

That's kind of crazy,,, they are going to pay $65,500 per unit for that thing, when they could probably pay $55,000 for an Ford E-transit right hand drive. Mail truck would be a perfect application for an electric vehicle. If it runs out of juice, they are never more than 4 miles from the post office. I wonder if EV's come with a charging station?

 

[Guard Dad]

That's kind of crazy,,, they are going to pay $65,500 per unit for that thing, when they could probably pay $55,000 for an Ford E-transit right hand drive. Mail truck would be a perfect application for an electric vehicle. If it runs out of juice, they are never more than 4 miles from the post office. I wonder if EV's come with a charging station?

We are talking about the government here.