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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Republicans can’t stop wasting money – they want to scrap USPS’ awesome EVs (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They look kind of dopey, but they look like they'd really do a good job of prioritizing safety for pedestrians, pets, and especially kids with the really low hood height. The minimum distance to see the road on that thing has got to be like three inches.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Valid point.

🤔 I wonder if it could have been designed without that part altogether. I've driven one of those flat-fronted Isuzu box trucks before, and it's crazy how much more you can see in front of the vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The flat front is a tradeoff that tends to make maintenance more difficult

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also removes crumple zone space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Flat front vehicles tend to have the driver sitting over the wheels, which raises their height off the street, a real pain if you are climbing in and out of the car 50 times a day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah. I know almost nothing about EV maintenance, but considering how many decades USPS used the Grumman, yeah probably best to minimize maintenance costs/work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm certainly no expert in the matter, it's just that these seem well designed in general, and they obviously didn't shy away from design choices out of fear of looking stupid, so they must have conside tred a flat front and decided against it for some decent reason.

One other one that comes to mind, now that I'm thinking on it again: if you do hit a pedestrian or cyclist, they're likely to go under a flat-fronted vehicle, but end up on the hood of a vehicle with a low hood