#Electric delivery

[biglisbonnews]

Amazon’s Electric Delivery Vans Roll Out in Europe Amazon plans to have 100,000 electric delivery vehicles custom-built by Rivian on the road globally by 2030. https://www.environmentalleader.com/2023/07/amazons-electric-delivery-vans-roll-out-in-europe/

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Suzuki Applied EV Concept, 2024. An autonomous mobile platform vehicle that can be equipped with an assortment of modular upper bodies for use on logistics sites. The company will display the “safe, simple, self-driving electric trolley the size of a small car” at the CES in January

[heavywithplot]

john and the harvester again! this time it's the off season, tho, so the harvester is like. in the Other World. conveniently, mirrors are doors and windows into Other Places!

[busstop]

Via Currys (they have a v funny Instagram feed - who knew?)

[wuts-good-gatsby]

It's so frustrating to me that people see electric automobiles as a green technology. They are anything but.

[nando161mando]

example of how American suburbs are designed to be car dependent

[dreadfutures]

pg&e can die please

[mishkakagehishka]

Honestly i probably didn't help myself by trekking across a bumfuck nowhere field yesterday in 1°C but alas.

[samuelroukin]

I have unforch seen cybertrucks in the wild and they are Too Big. I work in a historical area of the city and it's wild that they even fit in those streets and parked they still take up waaaaaay too much room.

yeah they wouldn't fit here even if they were safe enough to be allowed, there's a few people driving those huge ass american trucks here and there are entire streets they just can't go on lmao

[saltintheseaa]

also kiki’s delivery service’s commentary on manmade industry vs machine industry… machines are unpredictable but we can always count on our hands and our bodies to do the job!

[the-city-in-mind]

The Autopian had car designer Adrian Clarke rethink what a modern EV cab-over pickup truck would look like. It’s lower down, with excellent visibility, a usable truck bed with fold-down sides and clever storage. Closer to a Japanese kei truck or, in fact, the 1960s Ford Econoline.

Cities need compact vehicles for transporting things - for deliveries, tradespeople, municipal services and the like. Things that are easy to park and don’t take up 2.5 spaces.

Chicagoans have seen Amazon’s new electric delivery trucks, built by Rivian, roll out over the past year, that embrace a cab-over style design, making them a little safer than those old Grumman vans, while also providing more standing headroom for driver comfort.

MKBHD had a look at them:

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

ELM Evolv demonstrator, 2024. Prodrive Advanced Technology and Astheimer Design have revealed a ‘last mile’ L7e category electric quadricycle prototype with a cubic load capacity rivalling mid-size vans. At 3,240mm long, 1,450mm wide, 2,150mm high and weighing 850kg with batteries, the compact Evolv can accommodates a 1.6m tall Euro pallet with a 300kg payload in the main load area. The secondary load area, accessible through rear ‘barn doors��, provides additional space for a 1.2m tall Euro pallet and 200kg payload. Prodrive and Astheimer has established a new company, ELM Mobility, to take the project into the production readiness phase. The vehicle, which has a 20kWh battery, will offer a 100 mile range with sales starting in 2028 at a target price of around £25,000.

ELM Mobility

[ravioliwings]

sooooo sick of utility "delivery" fees

[veymax]

How do you solve the "last mile" ?

The "last mile" is something cities have been trying to solve for decades. While getting to most cities is fairly easy and there are quite a few transportation options, getting around the last mile to your final destination is often not straightforward. At the other end of the journey, the "first mile" often suffers from the same problem. How do you get to work from your home or apartment to the nearest bus stop or train station? Recently, everyone is discussing the use of electric skateboards to solve the problem of "last mile". Skateboard enthusiasts who have used it have proposed the advantages of electric skateboards in solving this problem: light and portable, can be carried on cars/trains, etc., and electric skateboards do not need to be pedaled by themselves. What means of transportation are you using to solve the "last mile"? Do you think there are any advantages and disadvantages of the means of transportation you use?

[letmeliedown]

ohh i just found out about the flash emulator ruffle and got the firefox extension & immediately went to play this tiny little flash game i loved when i was 15, High Delivery by ferry halim

A balloon with a vase tied to its string floats higher and higher. The player uses a small electric fan to guide the balloon to catch falling roses in the vase. At the game's end, the vase full of roses comes to rest at the gates of Heaven. (wiki)

it’s really simple and it takes like 3 minutes to play through but i loved the music and felt it was tragically poignant and i was so obsessed with getting the highest possible score

[indizombie]

Cities and the federal government can also shape strategic adoption of EVs by working to replace fleet and transit vehicles first.  This recently happened in Antelope Valley, California, where the local transit authority became the first in the country to replace its fleet of diesel buses. Since its 87 new electric buses, vans and coaches are cheaper to operate and maintain than dirtier diesel buses, the city is now using the savings to expand public transit and build a solar field to power the fleet. Similarly, in December the U.S. Postal Service committed to buying at least 45,000 electric delivery trucks and to explore how to electrify its entire fleet.

Tim Lyndon, ‘The EV Revolution Brings Environmental Uncertainty at Every Turn’, EcoWatch