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[Sir Tigger KC]

More EV chat! 

I pulled into a big Sainsbury's in Exeter this afternoon and there were three electric Royal Mail vans parked in the charging spots and the Posties were standing around having a chat while their vans charged up.

I doubt that this time counts as break time and I wondered how long every day these Posties have to hang around charging their vans. I saw three this afternoon, but there must be hundreds around the country twiddling their thumbs at the charging point at any given time. 

No wonder the postal service has gone to shite!         

[STEMO]

Surely, I mean surely, they charge them up overnight 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Surely, I mean surely, they charge them up overnight 

You're assuming that when Royal Mail's top brass decided to go electric and spent millions on a fleet of electric vans, they included charging facilities at the sorting depots in their plans?     

[Mr Skrunts]

It will be done on purpose by the posties to manipulate "break times" - and 3 of them all at the same time?

[TheBoy]

Surely, I mean surely, they charge them up overnight 

You're assuming that when Royal Mail's top brass decided to go electric and spent millions on a fleet of electric vans, they included charging facilities at the sorting depots in their plans?     

Because as we know, using the public charge points, like those at supermarkets, makes them far more expensive to fuel than petrol or diesel.


Our lot who have leccy vans love them.  They can refuse jobs because they are too far away, and have a constant excuse for turning down challenging jobs because they need a couple of hours of charge.  Lazy bastids.

[tunnie]

Surely, I mean surely, they charge them up overnight 

They probably do, but suspect they will be out of battery very quickly.

Loaded up heavily with cargo, with drivers who don't want to be economical, using heaters, lights, power inside. Then are using the throttle like an on/off switch. (much like someone else I know  )

I bet their range is awful... a quick Google

The Ford E-Transit offers an estimated WLTP range of 166–196 miles

So in Winter that will be sub 100 miles, bet they get 80 miles range at times if that.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Bring back the green (painted) GPO Austin and Morris vans, with 'A' series engines!

I was thinking about those the other week, and then amazingly I saw a pre-1962 example going along around our way, still in GPO green!

I once had the benefit of being given great advice by one of my ex's uncles who was about to retire as the senior mechanic of the GPO's maintenance section in London.  He very quickly taught me how to strip down the 'A' series engine of my Austin A40, replace the valves, and rebuild.  What he didn't know about those vehicles wasn't worth knowing!

[Rangie]

All the Royal mail vans round here are electric & Anglian water seem to be running quite a few.

[Sir Tigger KC]

One other thing I noticed about the electric Royal Mail vans is that they all had Charlie's CRIII logo rather than the familiar ERII. 

They're certainly taking their time in changing things from Lizzie to Charlie though.    

So far I've seen some stamps, a fiver and a tenner with Charlie's head on them. I took some cash from the cashpoint a while ago and all the brand new twenties had Lizzie on them.    I would have thought that they would have the new designs ready to start printing as soon as a new monarch is proclaimed. Obviously not.