True. Very true.

This. Thank you.

1. Buy an off-lease one of these in years.

Right there with you. 

Uh, the works council (Betriebsrat) aren’t quite the same as what we in the U.S. think of unions. Any German company with five or more employees can have one and membership must be a mix. Senior management is excluded.

It’s not what you want to drive. That comes later.

The world needs more perspective like this. Thank you.

A few golden rules of EV charging:

I would love a PHEV Trailhawk version of this.

3k units is a tough business case for cars.

This. The main problem is the lack of customer choice.

It’s awful. Rear seats are a joke, as is the trunk, and whoever designed the interior should be on trial in the Hague along with whoever approved a body design giving so terrible rear visibility.

So true.

True, but where they are going is still hard with increasing amounts of competition.

Here’s some data* on the average postal route: 20.8 miles, 500 stops, 13.6 miles per hour average speed. That is screaming out to be electrified, by an off-the-shelf electric van BTW, not some Franken-van. It’s at such low speed that the barn-like shape’s impact on efficiency is relatively low. Even if the electric van…

This.

Yeah, that number jumps out too. Maybe that’s what Oshkosh is telling them for the electric version of the Franken-van.

They are losing money because they are uniquely required to pre-fund their retirement system. Nearly everyone else is not.

I just don’t understand why the USPS insists on their own unique vehicle when there are plenty of existing options out there already.

https://thedriven.io/2019/03/19/new-york-says-it-saves-big-dollars-on-electric-car-fleet-maintenance/