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Even Germany Post Office Building is an electric car.
This form box van bare-bones has no air conditioning or radio, no passenger seat and a maximum speed of less than 50 miles an hour, however, the electric vehicle's success has annoyed the likes of Volkswagen AG .
When Deutsche Post AG Couldn t find a zero-emission delivery van that meets their needs, he bought a start-up and developed a Today, Europe's largest postal service can start selling these vehicles nicknamed StreetScooters to others showing the potential disruption of the rapidly changing automotive market.
StreetScooters loading outside a post office in Hamburg.
It is a good example of a start-up by stimulating competition in the industry and put pressure on established manufacturers said Stefan Bratzel, director of Automotive Management Center at the University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany the real test for Raid Deutsche Post truckmaking come when VW and Renault SA meet in the coming years with better deals of their own, he said.
For now, Deutsche Post is in an enviable position, saying it breaks even on the company after only 2 500 units in contrast to car manufacturers Tesla Inc. General Motors Co, which lost money on electric cars despite government incentives.
The courier company expects to churn 10,000 e-vans annually starting this year, which would make the StreetScooter No. 1 electrified light commercial vehicles in Europe, exceeding Kangoo Renault, according to Ian Fletcher, an analyst at research company IHS Markit the company can increase production to 15,000.
Discussions with potential customers in many industries in Germany and abroad are underway, with a customer looking to buy a very, very large number of StreetScooters said member Juergen Gerdes Deutsche Post management board provide more details in early May, but early indications are the company has plans beyond the delivery of mail.
In September, the company based in Bonn displays an orange version with a three-way electro-hydraulic dumper that could suit and construction waste He's also working on a larger version with more cargo space.
For parcel delivery are sitting in the back of a StreetScooter.
The vehicle, which carries the horn logo of Deutsche Post, is a symbol of the European car industry's inability to find quick and effective solutions to reduce emissions for the delivery market for the last mile and fleets municipal cities from Paris to New Delhi in Stuttgart, Daimler and Porsche are the ban on diesel vehicles or take other measures to reduce emissions.
The courier company plans to electrify its fleet of 92,000 commercial vehicles and has already begun to move away from diesel It should almost double its fleet of German StreetScooter about 4000 by year end, Gerdes said the capacity of the battery improve, the postal company will deploy the van in rural areas and can go about 50 miles on a charge, about half that of a Renault Kangoo van.
Marcus Springer, 43, became one of the first drivers StreetScooter in 2013, when it passed a diesel VW transporter to a first version of the e-van in Hamburg Since the beginning of 2015, it s used the latest model his daily 19 km 12 mile route.
It's like driving an automatic, it accelerates quickly, said Springer, who carries a portable radio for entertainment when I arrived, my route considerably slowed down because I had to constantly tell people about the new van, and they always keep ask me .
A Deutsche Post employee uses a StreetScooter to perform mail delivery in Hamburg.
While the van is a niche product, tailored to help Deutsche Post jostle for market share in the worldwide distribution of 70 billion to 76 billion last mile can increase demand parcel volumes in the country including Germany and the United States have doubled in the next 10 years, according to McKinsey Co rivals Atlanta UPS has taken a different approach, choosing to renovate its brown vans brands in Europe by replacing diesel engines with batteries, a slow process.
When purchasing and operating costs are taken into account, Deutsche Post came out ahead of StreetScooters, said Chief Executive Frank Appel Overall, the maintenance costs of electronic vehicles are about 35 percent less than cars with internal combustion engines, the German Institute of the estimated IFA auto industry.
It is extremely embarrassing for me, CEO Volkswagen Matthias Mueller said last August asked about StreetScooter I wonder why Deutsche Post didn t work with us on this, he said, adding that VW will still try to get a foot in the door .
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