The USPS is already testing mail delivery by electric bike with these neat little US-built mail bike

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https://electrek.co/2022/06/03/usps-mail-delivery-electric-mail-bike/

The USPS is already testing mail delivery by electric bike with these neat little US-built mail bikes

Micah Toll
- Jun. 3rd 2022 1:30 am PT



I recently wrote an opinion piece about how the United States Postal Service (USPS) could look to solve its gas-guzzler truck problem by following Europe’s example of delivering mail with smaller electric cargo bikes. As it turns out, the postal service has already been testing this out, and the little electric mail bikes look pretty snazzy too.

Not only are they designed to carry heavy cargo loads, but they’re also built in the US by Montana-based Coaster Cycles.

The electric mail bikes are built on the Freighter AW platform, which can be modified for various types of commercial e-cargo bike applications.

Technically it’s an electric cargo tricycle, but it almost looks more like a cargo van than a bike.

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[TheFarseer]

1. Except I recently read this

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/23/usps-trucks-epa-climate-change/

USPS is buying a fleet of trucks that couldn’t possibly be less fuel efficient.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Sun shield looks a broiler

I'd bet a solid or opaque top will be popular. Those concentrated rays are inadvisable.

[hlthe2b]

3. "neither rain, sleet, or snow..." (that makes it a bit more difficult, but interesting)

[Goonch]

4. UPS Launches Cargo eBike Delivery in Seattle

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Gotta say...ugly as hell...suggest outsourcing to China. Yikes!

[mitch96]

6. Ahhh the ubiquitous 'TUK TUK"

You see them all over Asia and South America. The green one is a hybrid!!