I bet you Chrysler/Fiat could manufacture a stripped down RH drive 2 door hardtop Jeep for about $12-18K per vehicle if they got a bulk order. They probably could even equip it with a somewhat fuel efficient 4 banger.
Since a gas delivery vehicle (like the sprinter van that Amazon uses) costs up to $57K for the tall extended length models ... so is $50K really unreasonable? How much would USPS save on gas prices vs. recharging over the life of the vehicle? What if they built solar banks for recharging? Lower maintenance costs? Extended life? How much is less pollution worth?
Ummm...guess it depends on your assumptions, but there is not a thing wrong with @buckeyegator 's math (105 x $50,000 = $5,250,000) not 1/4 of a million. Using his cost # and your link replacing the total fleet of 232,000+ vehicles would be somewhere North of $11 Billion.
not to mention the cost of installing recharge stations for each vehicle, plus, replacement batteries,etc.
He claimed they would need millions of vehicles. That is not true unless they increase the fleet size by a minimum of 8x.
ok, not millions, but 11 billion is a lot of money don't you think, maybe inept joe will just give it away like the other trillions he gave out.
Noted...of course $11 Billion would still be a serious financial problem for a struggling agency like the PO.
Just passed 2 pounds per liter in England for the first time ever. Joe controlling that European gas price like all US presidents do. Such power he wields over all these prices and supplies in other countries.
i looked it up myself, at $5 a gallon the post office would use about $0.6 billion in gas per year…. Seems like there would be some serious savings there….
So yes, $11 billion over probably 10 years is a lot of money. So I assume when Trump upped the military budget by $300 billion PER year ... ie, $3 trillion over 10 years .... you must have really had a freak out.... oh... wait ... no? That was just fine? Yeah, Republicans only care about money Democrats want to spend.
the usps also uses rural carriers, who use their own vehicles, not counted in the around 250,000 . are they all going to get vans also, doubtful.
we are not even talking about the thousands of 48 and 53 foot tractor traillers used to move mail from facility to facility.we in gainesville get about 25 or so a day, all round trip from and to jacksonville, tampa,orlando.
So…. What’s the problem then? Are you now complaining that not everyone will get the vans that you didn’t anyone should get?
Elon’s got a fix for that. I wonder if the pony express people were this upset and irrational when advancements made them obsolete….
