French posties go electric

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Source: 4car

The French postal service is to order 10,000 electric delivery vans in a bid to reduce its €70m annual fuel bill. La Poste estimates that this will also cut its annual carbon dioxide output by 40,000 tonnes.

La Poste has been evaluating eight EVs made by French firm SVE, but has now put out a tender to a number of European manufacturers to provide its first batch of 500 for its fleet. This is thought to be the largest-yet order for electric vehicles in the world.
 
If they did that in the states they would have to raise the cost of sending a letter to an even more ridiculous amount.
 
Very good. More industry, post and public transportation services should be looking to cut emissions when they can. Especially spoiled rich western ones.
 
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Very good. More industry, post and public transportation services should be looking to cut emissions when they can. Especially spoiled rich western ones.
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I don't know why there is still this misconception that electric cars are zero emissions. The car itself may output nothing, but the electricity it used was most likely created from fossil fuel. Add to that the loss from transmitting the electricity and the end result is that you get less output per unit of fuel.

Unless, of course, that energy was created by solar, wind, or hydroelectric power, in which case France actually did do the right thing....
 
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I don't know why there is still this misconception that electric cars are zero emissions. The car itself may output nothing, but the electricity it used was most likely created from fossil fuel. Add to that the loss from transmitting the electricity and the end result is that you get less output per unit of fuel.

Unless, of course, that energy was created by solar, wind, or hydroelectric power, in which case France actually did do the right thing....
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I was speaking in general, how companies/governements need to do more to cut emissions, Hydrogen buses for example.

As for the topic at hand, you are right, it doesnt benefit emission outputs if the energy is gathered from the burning of hydrocarbons. Sorry about that. France is big on nuclear, so i guess that is good for emissions (though nuclear has it's downsides, as does hydro). It would be best if everyone got their electricity from aerial and solar power, however that isnt economically rational. On the whole, i like this move.
 
Good move. We have been running gas-electro hybrid busses here for a long time and they seem to work just as well, or often better when they can reach peak torque instantly on those hills. With the price of gas there, I'm sure they will be saving a lot by going electric.
 
Electric work because EVs are more efficient than IC vehicles.

The energy generation is transfered to big plants which is easier to achieve optimum efficiency.
 

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