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3_14159td t1_j1cbkv0 wrote
Reply to comment by fman84 in US Postal Service commits to buy 66,000 Electric vehicles— finally by MrMike
Considering the Grumman LLVs get somewhere in the range of 5-15 mpg due to the start-stop nature in most areas, even charging with a gasoline generator should come out ahead.
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Reply to comment by PhasmaFelis in California Pizza Huts To Get Electric, 3-Wheeled, Single-Seater Delivery Vehicles by Brainlessdad
Check the dimensions, it's much larger than you think. Even the largest touring bikes aren't close. I was also anticipating an airbag... I can think of a handful of 60s sports cars the same size with similar safety standards, and two seats.
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Reply to comment by Lajinn5 in California Pizza Huts To Get Electric, 3-Wheeled, Single-Seater Delivery Vehicles by Brainlessdad
This is really just Solo hate. Much like the RedBull minis and other "bespoke" vehicles, they'll end up on the second hand market as mostly useless vehicles. To me, it's fundamentally incorrect to create a vehicle that holds fewer occupants yet takes up the same amount of space on the road. It's just wrong. Motorcycle/scooter is valid, so it a Smart, even a Chevy Spark (though that doesn't make sense for pizza) but a Solo isn't. You don't even get more parking spaces at the restaurant unless you have a fleet of Solos and park them in a staggered pattern.
3_14159td t1_ixghek4 wrote
Reply to California Pizza Huts To Get Electric, 3-Wheeled, Single-Seater Delivery Vehicles by Brainlessdad
Solo filling it's purpose perfectly: taking up just as much space on the road as a two seater, but ecowashing the companies and people that buy them.
"Look at our hip and eco friendly delivery vehicles, they're extra good because they only transport one person" Yeah, ever heard of a motorcycle? Or the SmartFortwo that's practically the same size and can transport a whole additional person?
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Reply to comment by redingerforcongress in Domino’s Pizza will soon have 800 electric vehicles for delivery drivers by redingerforcongress
Sounds more expensive than exploiting college students
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Reply to comment by porncrank in Poland picks U.S. offer for its first nuclear power plant -PM by SunfireGaren
As far as I've had answered, that's mostly ancillary articles from the various experiments that took place on the site. Think like Curie's radioactive notebooks and such. There's still a number of "abandoned" areas on the NNSS awaiting evaluation and cleanup.
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Reply to comment by Magmaster12 in Poland picks U.S. offer for its first nuclear power plant -PM by SunfireGaren
The US doesn't do that... Yucca mountain, the best solution, was killed decades ago by nimbys and greedy politicians. There isn't any commercial nuclear waste being stored in NV.
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Reply to comment by ShortysTRM in Lizzo reacts to snowplow naming contest win, shouts out Osseo Middle School by citytiger
Upcoming dad joke prodigy.