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not if existing vehicle is already more expensive than it needs to be, due to meeting non-requirements for DHL
by anentropic 10y ago
not if existing vehicle is already more expensive than it needs to be, due to meeting non-requirements for DHL
- jacquesm 10y agoThey're charging 32000 euros for those things, that's a lot of budget to work with.
- allengeorge 10y agoFor an already customized version. Once you start by buying a stock electric vehicle you've already blown a large chunk of your budget.
- jacquesm 10y agohttp://business.citroen.nl/bedrijfswagens/citroen-berlingo-electric.html http://business.citroen.nl/bedrijfswagens/citroen-berlingo-e... Which leaves 8K to do the customization and would not require the capital investment, on top of that they would have a much higher resale value when no longer needed.
- skriticos2 10y agoeconomics 101: they are selling them to third parties for that price (including some profit and negotiation margin). So they likely pay somewhere around 20-25k for internal use. That's ridiculously cheap for this kind of purpose built vessle.
- r00fus 10y agoBased on this report of what the USPS is asking to replace an ages-old design mail truck [1] ($30k per), EUR 25k sounds pretty dang good for a purpose built small-run pure-electric vehicle. I'd bet they could easily get the costs down to 15K EUR with appropriate volumes. Maintenance costs on electric vehicles are a lot less, and obviously they don't use fuel, so that costs less too. [1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/06/broken_mail_trucks_cost_the_po.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/06/broken_...
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoThey don't use fossil fuels, but they do need to be charged, and a fleet of them would need some added infrastructure to charge simultaneously. But that's a one-time cost, in the long run they should be cheaper to operate, clearly.