Electric mobility
Deutsche Post goes with electric cars in series
Up to 30,000 “street scooter” will soon put Germany far letters and packages. And that’s not all: In the future, the Post wants to sell its electric cars, maybe even to other companies.
The first 2000 vehicles are still rolling in this year from the Band, said a spokesman for the German Post. The company will replace up to 30,000 vehicles by the Transporter of the type “street scooter”.
Mobile and eco-friendly
The project is funded with around nine million euros from the Federal Ministry for the environment in the framework of the program “Renewably mobile”. “Street scooter” was founded in 2010 as a Startup company in the environment of the Technical University RWTH Aachen. One and a half years, the Post had taken over the small company to build your know-how of our own vehicles for the deliverer.
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Ambitions for the future
In the medium term, the Post plans to sell its “street scooter” to other companies. “There are requests,” said Post-package Board of management Jürgen Gördes the news magazine “Focus”. For the time being, you need to know the existing production capacities. The logistics company sees electric vehicles as the alternative model to the products of the E-car manufacturer Tesla. Gerdes said: “The build high-quality vehicles for private clients, we can build a price-aggressive tools for business customers.”
nin/uh (dpa, afp)