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[CagivaRider]

Our neighborhood may be a better locale for the EV. The distribution center is centrally located less than five miles from the farthest mailbox. The fastest they will go is 30 MPH for a mile. The rest of the time they will probably never get over 20 MPH. They will be servicing thousands of houses. They will need air conditioning a week or two a year at the most. The only time they would get out of their truck is to deliver a large package. We are probably an outlier for most of the country.

[Curt]

The standard USPS jeep is the thing that needs to be electrified. Those travel an average of 25-35 miles per day at most, so a smaller battery with something like 25kWh (100 miles) would be ideal to run for 2 to 3 days. A 50A circuit could charge 5 vehicles/night. (If they also had 400W solar panels on the roof, that would cover maybe 5 to 10 miles/day.)

[Specter]

Curt, I agree with most of what you said.

The panels, ehh not so much.  The time the things would need to be charging, daytime, the trucks are NOT there charging, they are out in the field.  You'd need batteries and all that other stuff, a lot of extra buxx.  Like the idea and thinking though.

Range, if the truck is only travelling 25 mph or so, that range might potentially be an extra 50 percent or more.  These things really don't sip a lot of juice at lower speeds, and if you put a strong regen on it, with all that stop and go,  it'd be a lot more efficient.

Aaron