There’s a lot to love about the cute new electric trucks rolling out in London for Royal Mail. They run up to a hundred miles in all-electric mode, and will be used to move mail between distribution centres.
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| Royal Mail Truck by Arrival. |
According to the fleet director:
“Royal Mail is delighted to be collaborating with Arrival and pioneering the adoption of large electric commercial vehicles. We will be putting them through their paces over the next several months to see how they cope with the mail collection demands from our larger sites.”
It’s a neat looking truck, but there apparently is a lot more going on here than just a new electric van. According to the manufacturer Arrival, the four tonne truck costs about the same as a diesel vehicle. After running 100 miles on pure battery power, there is some kind of dual power mode (nobody seems to say exactly what) that "tops up" the batteries.
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