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USPS set to buy Canoo electric vans
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5 years later: USPS abandons EVs due to the high cost of repairs and replacement batteries and goes go hybrids/ice engines
Yeah... EVs have been out for a while now. They're generally holding up ok still. The one exception being the Nissan Leaf and some really early ones, neither of which had a battery management system to keep the battery at a decent temperature in extreme hot/cold weather.
And it turns out that EVs don't have as many parts, and many things are easier to design because they don't have to run off an engine's accessory belt (fewer moving parts). No muffler, catalytic converter, oxygen sensors, or pollution control valves. No head gasket, timing belt, fuel injectors or spark plugs. The alternator is replaced with a solid-state DC-DC converter. The transmission is a set of gears that don't need to shift. Even the brake pads hardly get used because regenerative braking is the first thing to slow your car down, putting energy back into your battery.
Cool, huh?