{"id":459,"date":"2009-06-05T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2009-06-05T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T11:20:27","slug":"going-postal-means-going-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/going-postal-means-going-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Postal Means Going Electric?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A draft study by the Postal Regulatory Commission examining vehicle-electrifications has concluded that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Electrification of the Postal Service delivery vehicle fleet is practical, achievable, and desirable, and should be initiated now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the study electrifying the Postal Service&#8217;s delivery vans would save 68 million gallons of fuel annually and cut overall costs per mile from 20-25 cents to 8-12 cents.?? The aging Postal fleet includes 142,000 delivery vehicles and with most delivery routes about 17-18 miles long the situation seems ideal for electric vehicles.?? However a significant hurdle for the often financially challenged organization is the very high level of capital investment fleet electrification would require &#8211; up to $10 billion.?? <a title=\"US Postal Van Electrification\" href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/innovation\/2009\/06\/02\/will-e-trucks-deliver-your-snail-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? csmonitor.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A draft study by the Postal Regulatory Commission examining vehicle-electrifications has concluded that: Electrification of the Postal Service delivery vehicle fleet is practical, achievable, and desirable, and should be initiated now. According to the study electrifying the Postal Service&#8217;s delivery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/going-postal-means-going-electric\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[430,1369],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-regulation-policy","tag-electric-vehic","tag-us-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}