Economy
Saturday 02 April 2016
So far, the German Post is not known as a carmaker. That could change soon because this year will start the serial production of own electric vans. Delivery throughout Germany will thus be able deliver their letters and packages.
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The German post goes under the car maker and lets the electric vans “StreetScooter” self-developed now mass produce. The first 2,000 cars will roll off the production line later this year, said a spokesman for Post and confirmed a report of the “Focus”. Gradually, the company will replace up to 30,000 vehicles by the StreetScooter. The electric vehicles are to be used nationwide for delivery of letters and parcels.
In the medium term the post even to sell the cars. “There are questions. But at the moment we need the production capacity itself,” Package Management Board Jürgen Gerdes told the magazine. The project is sponsored by the Federal Environment Ministry therefore with around nine million euros under the program “Renewable mobile”.
More aboutMade to the vehicles StreetScooter of the Deutsche Post subsidiary GmbH in Aachen. The maximum speed specified by the manufacturer at 85 km / h, the range of about 80 kilometers. In the medium term, the Post, the “Street Scooter” for sale to other companies. “There are questions,” Gerdes said. For now, however, need the Post the existing production capacity itself.
The German Post had taken over the company, 2014. She sees the vehicles by its own account as an alternative model to the products of the electric car manufacturer Tesla. “The build quality vehicles for private customers, we can aggressively priced tools for business customers build,” said the post-package board.
Source: n-tv.de
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