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Looks like the average for delivery trucks is 13,116 miles per year[1], which is 65 miles a day if it only runs 200 days, or 44 miles per day if it runs 300 day
by greglindahl 10y ago
Looks like the average for delivery trucks is 13,116 miles per year[1], which is 65 miles a day if it only runs 200 days, or 44 miles per day if it runs 300 days per year (6 days a week minus a few holidays.)
1: http://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10309 http://www.afdc.energy.gov/data/10309
- mikeash 10y agoOh wow, that's substantially less than I imagined. Thanks for the hard data!
- greglindahl 10y agoYou're welcome. I can't claim much credit for 15 seconds of Googling; it's very distressing how most discussions related to electric vehicles on HN are fact-free.
- mikeash 10y agoI know what you mean. Somehow it didn't even occur to me that this information would be available. I've been using the web for 20 years and I'm still not 100% used to having the world's information at my fingertips.
- dredmorbius 10y agoNo kidding. Particularly when major energy consumption patterns, and transport especially, have been studied to death. There's exceedingly good data out there. Thanks from me as well for turning that up.