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Why I’m More Excited About the Next UPS Truck Than the Next Tesla
Electric last-mile delivery vans are the unsexy next big thing in electric transportation, and they’re happening now. Subscribe to CNET: Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉 Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on TikTok: 0:00 Electric Last Mile Delivery 1:09 Torque was Made…
RJ
June 18, 2022 at 6:47 pm
Every day, Amazon delivers packages to my next-door neighbor and I have seen an EV a couple of times. It makes me wonder if my next car will be an EV.
Ian Weetman
June 18, 2022 at 6:55 pm
Nailed it! Every piece of green industrial tech in action is WAY more important than any shiny bauble for the 1% crowd… Give me last mile silent electric everything… school buses, food trucks, delivery drones, UPS routes, mail carriers…
Ian Weetman
June 18, 2022 at 6:56 pm
How can we decarbonize the economy so quickly and seamlessly that it almost seems like fun!
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Ian Weetman
June 18, 2022 at 7:00 pm
What the world needs now (besides love sweet love) is car-sharing of electric vehicles. Often one only needs a car once a week at best and only for a few hours…. I’d much rather just buy an EV car club membership if that were possible and use per use… Or at least get comp’d a day or two per month for free in which to do the IKEA/Home Depot/Walmart runs. Otherwise since the spread of pandemia and work from home being mandatory for my families employers as well as myself I wouldn’t need a car at all… Honestly…
Ian Weetman
June 18, 2022 at 7:01 pm
Every major automaker could easily set up these ventures via its dealership networks and also see it as way to get people to test drive their products in case they want to actually go all in and buy one for their very own!
David Knill
June 18, 2022 at 7:01 pm
Great stuff. I know you had to mention Tesla in the title to get people to watch – but this is a great rundown of why electric is great for delivery vehicles. Looking forward to NOT hearing those noisy Diesel/ICE delivery vans constantly running around my neighborhood.
Ian Weetman
June 18, 2022 at 7:09 pm
It’s Oh So Quiet should be the theme tune of the future! Wow bam!
Tom Tillman
June 18, 2022 at 7:12 pm
My tesla has a 270 mile range. Who’s nervous? I will never be nervous.
I can go out and drive around all day and come home with a reserve.
abghere
June 18, 2022 at 7:58 pm
We are not building new power plants nor erecting sufficient solar farms to meet demands. Adding electric vehicles consumption grow is contributing to more power grid instability!
Alex Toma
June 18, 2022 at 8:06 pm
ok boomer (lol jk but fr tho)
Aidan
June 18, 2022 at 8:39 pm
We have a 2003 Ford Transit 2.0 TDdi (turbo diesel with direct injection), MWB with medium roof… it gets 38mpg. Vans don’t need 3.5 V6’s 2.0-3.0 turbo-diesels do the job much better with all that low down torque. They are great for commercial vehicles like these
Andre P
June 18, 2022 at 9:20 pm
Subversive propaganda points.
They snuck in electric cars are
Slow
Low range and not suited to “random journeys”
They depreciate
ie electric power train is suited for commercial purposes… not you.
Flash Sushi
June 18, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Ask people who put a reservation for the Cybertruck years ago if they’re still excited about their orders.
Mel Chaar
June 18, 2022 at 9:41 pm
True.
A Jack
June 18, 2022 at 9:57 pm
This guy sure tries his darndest to convince people to fear electric vehicles.
Kevin Campbell
June 18, 2022 at 10:45 pm
In addition to electric delivery vehicles saving money faster than an electric car that moves only twice a day, they also save carbon faster. To maximize removing CO2, we need to prioritize replacing gas/diesel vehicles with EV’s that drive all day (taxi, delivery vehicle, garbage truck, mail truck, etc), instead of the current focus on consumer cars. Instead of incentives to consumers, businesses need financing help with the up-front cost. It creates a lot of carbon to make any new vehicle, electric or gas, and an EV that sits parked is doing nothing to help the environment because a gas car is also zero carbon while it’s parked.
Colors 66
June 18, 2022 at 10:47 pm
There is no ROI for private cars, hence money pits!
Colors 66
June 18, 2022 at 10:49 pm
The UK is in Europe!
Tim Rogers
June 18, 2022 at 11:24 pm
Always enjoy Brian’s videos. I feel he is saying it with experience and authority. Mature intelligent reporters get my vote!
Mr. Marc G.
June 18, 2022 at 11:39 pm
These coal-powered vehicles are nice!
Lee Read
June 18, 2022 at 11:49 pm
What’s the range on the box truck when you have a refer installed?
George W
June 19, 2022 at 12:50 am
Great idea. Just wondering when a city losses power and all the chargers are down, does it also mean that all the drivers gets a “Snow Day” off while no-one gets their packages the next day? Happened to my brother in law with his Tesla doing Uber driving when the city lost electric power. Or, they will have backup gas power generators to save the day?
Aziz Mehmet
June 19, 2022 at 12:55 am
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garrett moore
June 19, 2022 at 1:05 am
Our electric ups trucks were terrible they got rid of them
Uncle Phil
June 19, 2022 at 1:14 am
And once again, a half-assed presentation. Fuel cost is a big issue in delivery, but maintenance is another big cost. A maintenance day is a down day, and the electric vehicles require a lot less maintenance – which is also a big cost saver. Cnet, stick to electronic toys. It’s what you actually know something about.
freddie carr
June 19, 2022 at 1:38 am
Can you say—IRS section 179.
Jeff Wulf
June 19, 2022 at 1:55 am
Might be true in NYC, but try one of those in Nebraska. You wouldn’t make it to your first delivery and there would be no way to recharge once you .. didn’t.
swingtag
June 19, 2022 at 4:32 am
Nice honest, positive journalism. No drama. No Clickbait. No us versus them. No divide and conquer. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Charles
June 19, 2022 at 4:44 am
it’s all about batteries and no one has enough to make a lot of delivery vehicles when margins are better on cars.
Victor Cenac
June 19, 2022 at 5:06 am
Is Cooley reporting from prison?
What’s the Limit?
June 19, 2022 at 5:10 am
You save a whole lot on fuel emissions, granted the charge station is supplied by solar or other rentable energy. Pretty cool.
Legal Fiction
June 19, 2022 at 6:26 am
I’m excited to see the vans on the road, I can’t wait to see the mail delivered in an electric truck. Will I own a EV? Heck No,
Roger Martinez
June 19, 2022 at 7:36 pm
For the next generation sake we all need to switch to EVs! I switch this year to ev.
Legal Fiction
June 19, 2022 at 8:33 pm
@Roger Martinez u know how much carbon emissions are created mining for the nickel and other earth metals? Then the transport? And that’s just the battery part, 80% of EV Charging ports are powered by diesel generators. I’m sorry, but we are another 20yrs away before people in the Midwest would even consider owning one!
B M
June 19, 2022 at 8:00 am
Excellent analysis. Most of those points are applicable to public transportation aka buses, taxis etc.
MANCAVE Studios
June 19, 2022 at 8:13 am
I’d be over the moon if people, such as myself, just stopped buying stuff they don’t need, lol.
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Henry Knox
June 19, 2022 at 10:10 am
One thing you left out. We don’t produce enough electricity for everyone to have a electric car.
Ronald Nurse
June 19, 2022 at 10:42 pm
@Henry Knox no this is what you get when the taxpayers give oil companies billions. But lets keep going down the same path right?
Ronald Nurse
June 19, 2022 at 11:10 pm
@Henry Knox how is he at war with oil? You repeat the OIA talking points.
Henry Knox
June 19, 2022 at 11:32 pm
I forgot I’m talking to a Democrat, all you understand are preferred pronouns and child grooming. I shouldn’t expect you to understand anything about economics and energy production.
Ronald Nurse
June 20, 2022 at 12:26 am
@Henry Knox exactly the answer I expected
Russell
June 19, 2022 at 10:14 am
Interesting title. And you know what? Same here.
Scott Banko
June 19, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Not all electric motors DO torque well. DC motors do torque well from start but they are terrible at high RPM. That is why EV use AC motors that require a VFD to do torque well at 0 RPM.
NOT Enrique
June 19, 2022 at 1:48 pm
That pathetic range is probably the reason Elms failed. Same reason 99% of personal EVs are a no go imo. Range and what they want for them!! PASS!
MK KM
June 19, 2022 at 1:50 pm
Cooley gets it. I’ve worked with and interviewed UPS, FedEx and USPS drivers. They universally hate their trucks. Every delivery center can get rooftop solar to power these. Govts with common sense should mandate these immediately and help with any infrastructure bottlenecks.
Shahar Rozenbloom
June 19, 2022 at 3:59 pm
אפל תיצור רכב כזה למסע לשילוחים Tesla Van עם עיצוב טוב ופתח אחורי נוח וגדול אוטומטי גם בצדדים מאחור עם האייפון ב40K+. בקילר עיצוב מאסק. עם מסך 20 אינץ’.
cbrfast
June 19, 2022 at 4:49 pm
This guy needs to stop talking about electric vehicles. In 2022 and beyond none of the factors he suggests are relevant. Range anxiety? Has he driven the new class of EV’s? This guy’s opinions are irrelevant because they are years behind the technology.
jonathan Leach
June 19, 2022 at 7:23 pm
Very good. I was talking to an electric commercial bike rider in London last week. They can carry 2 tonnes and in big cities are quicker than a van. They are also much cheaper to buy. They also need to be part of the solution. Thanks for your films.
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Roger Martinez
June 19, 2022 at 7:38 pm
Brother your POV is not about ROI, I am done making oil sheiks rich, I have gone electric
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Ronald Nurse
June 19, 2022 at 9:59 pm
I own a tesla M3 it is by far the best car i have ever owned. I would love to get rid of both my sprinter gas guzzlers and replace them with electric vans. Please someone come out with one that would get close to 200 miles.
Michael Aultman
June 19, 2022 at 10:31 pm
Absolutely!!!
Dan Patrick
June 19, 2022 at 11:11 pm
I love this, daddy
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June 19, 2022 at 11:52 pm
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June 20, 2022 at 6:24 pm
Great video. You get me excited for the future
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Patrick Forzetting
June 20, 2022 at 6:43 pm
You right though
Ed Arnold
June 21, 2022 at 1:49 am
Excellent, factual presentation without annoying hype! Can’t wait for diesel vans (cough, wheeze) to go away.
Robert Quigley
June 21, 2022 at 7:32 pm
The ICE versions often die sooner than an EV while requiring much more maintenance and the downtime required
Freedom
June 22, 2022 at 4:15 am
I’m not a fan of tesla car cause its not a nice car.
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magnus pym
June 22, 2022 at 2:21 pm
Excelent! This (last miledelivery e.vs.)is a “no brainer”! A perfect application of the technology.
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June 22, 2022 at 4:29 pm
$3 a gallon… man I miss mean Tweets…. 🤦♂️
Joe
June 22, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Another big win for electric delivery vans is regenerative braking. I see a lot of braking up and down a street with every delivery van, leading to more braking than any other transport scenario I can think of, and a significant % of that energy could be put back into the battery, whereas it’s lost to friction using an ICE van.
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June 23, 2022 at 10:39 pm
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Ali Meharaz
June 24, 2022 at 1:25 am
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Mark Hickman
June 24, 2022 at 12:54 pm
Spot on. EV’s required initial focus on passenger vehicles and individuals like me that were more interested in reducing carbon footprint rather than ROI in order to reach industrial scale sufficient to drive the ROI of last-mile and class 8 semi BEV’s to be obviously better than ICE counterparts. Since we are currently faced with insufficient mining and refining capacity for battery materials the societal benefit of using the materials in utility and long-haul vehicles far outweighs the benefit from incorporating those materials into passenger vehicles.
While I have not followed the utility vehicle space nearly as closely as I have followed Tesla, the two vehicles I’m most excited about from Tesla are the Semi and Cybertruck, precisely due to their higher utilization (when used commercially) compared to passenger vehicles. While I hope all participants in this space succeed, my impression (again from consuming mostly Tesla-focused material) is that Tesla is positioned to more quickly drive manufacturing cost of such vehicles to be profitable for both Tesla and the operator of the vehicles it produced.
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics over 36% of the ton-miles transported in the US moves less than 500 miles. If BEV’s prove as economic as promised for such routes, as our capacity to produce batteries scale, these routes should be lost by the Diesel industry very quickly. The declining market availability to the Diesel industry will drive cost into that industry, accelerating the incentive to provide charging infrastructure and/or modify operating profiles on long-haul routes for BEV’s. Add autonomy to the mix, who cares if it takes a BEV twice or three times as long to recharge vs. a diesel to refuel if the vehicle is operating 24-hours a day and the fuel cost is a fraction of the diesel cost per ton-mile?
Applying similar logic to the H2EV’s, with H2 carrying a significant energy cost premium to storing electrical energy directly in a battery, the addressable market for H2 in the trucking industry will never be larger than it is now and continually declining as BEV technology improves and scales. H2EV semi’s may still have a place, but it is less exciting to me than BEV’s. It will be interesting on how the new emphasis on regionalization of manufacturing will play into the ton-miles vs. distance moved in the coming decade.
I’ve drifted a bit off mark from this particular video, but am excited for the same reasons the video presents. I also talk too much.
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June 24, 2022 at 4:44 pm
I might ask this guy if he wants to speak at my funeral and make me sound interesting!!!
bkinstler
June 25, 2022 at 3:15 am
All cars should have always been electric. We never should have quit electric vehicles in the first place.
Kntryhart
June 25, 2022 at 1:44 pm
The problem is that the electric infrastructure can’t support a huge number of new electric vehicles. The electric grid is already strained…now add “thousands” of electric vehicles!
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In 2020, while the US grid had 1,117.5TW of utility electricity capacity and 27.7GW of solar, according to the US Energy Information Administration. If all the cars were EVs charging at 7kW, they would need 2,008.3TW – nearly twice the grid capacity.Nov 13, 2021
Spencer Elsbury
June 25, 2022 at 2:05 pm
The range isn’t there charge time too long power grid can’t handle everyone going to electric ⚡
Bruce Baer
June 25, 2022 at 8:41 pm
If you care about global warming and there is a constraint of batteries we would be better off putting them in the delivery vans rather than personal EVs because the van would use the battery all day long rather something like an hour a day.
jeff vaughn
June 25, 2022 at 9:39 pm
125 miles in city isn’t bad at all.. for inner city delivery driving it might be worth it to go with pure EVs.. though i don’t think that pure EVs are the way for automotive.. i think we will have to have hydrogen more than likely for anything with real travel range.. you could always put solar on the roof of the panel van though to extend that 125 miles..