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A start-up company of the Post developed the street scooter especially for the daily requirements of the delivery service. Functionality took precedence over beauty and comfort…. In the cockpit …

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… That is why everything unnecessary has been dispensed with. Even the passenger seat had to give way to a bracket that can accommodate six mail boxes. After the electric car …

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… has spent the night at the socket, it has a range of 50 to 60 kilometers – enough to supply around 500 addresses with mail. The box-shaped structure de…s delivery truck …

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… was placed at waist height so that the postmen don’t have to bend down as often when handling parcels. Around 500 street scooters …

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… are currently on the move for the post in Germany and the Netherlands. Until the end of the year …

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… it should be 2500. In addition, the Post wants to market the street scooter to business customers in the logistics sector – as a functional alternative to the Tesla model.

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Swiss Post now also delivers letters and parcels with its own electric car. The street scooter is not only intended to improve the company’s ecological balance, but also to open up a new field of business.

Hhere robustness takes precedence over courtesy, that much is clear. The interior lining made of solid hard plastic undoubtedly indicates that this cockpit is not an oasis of wellbeing, but a workplace in which functionality is in the foreground. The instrument panel is minimalist, you will look in vain for an infotainment system, you also have to do without the latest assistance functions from the lane keeping aid to the blind spot warning.

The manufacturer has even omitted the front passenger seat and replaced it with a bracket that can accommodate six yellow boxes. The only comfort granted to the driver is seat heating with five heat levels. If you sit in this car, you have to be prepared to complete your daily tour even in freezing temperatures. On the other hand, the street scooter may be the last new vehicle that does not start to beep immediately when you drive off without wearing your seat belt.

A Deutsche Post start-up company developed the Streetscooter specifically for delivering letters and parcels. That’s right, Swiss Post is now building cars. The prototype of an environmentally friendly delivery van with electric drive was created in 2012 in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University, and the first 150 pre-series vehicles were tested in a field trial in the delivery service at the beginning of 2014.

When designing the Stromer, the practical experience of the deliverers was also taken into account: The box-shaped structure of the electric delivery vehicle is very well suited for stacking parcels, the loading area is approximately at waist height so that the employees do not have to bend down so often when handling the parcels . The payload is 650 kilos, not much more fits into a VW T5 Transporter.

The field test was a success, and there are now around 500 street scooters across Germany. Ten of them have been in use at the delivery base in the northern German district town of Ratzeburg since last November, where I had the opportunity to drive one.

This is how a Tesla is made

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Last September, Tesla opened a new assembly hall in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Around 180 employees …

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… are currently screwing the Model S together there. The electrically powered sedans are prefabricated in the main factory in California …

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… and then shipped in overseas containers. That takes six to eight weeks. The so-called semi-knocked-down vehicles …

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… are assembled in Tilburg and made ready to drive. The final assembly in the low-energy hall …

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… takes one to two hours and includes the installation of the battery, the drive train and the rear axle. All in all …

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… 36 components are assembled, all of which are easily accessible. The Model S floats through the hall on a glider. Anything goes in this car factory …

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… surprisingly quiet too. You don’t experience any excitement or hectic activity here. On the contrary: the employees …

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… look relaxed and work like in a trance. Long term …

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… Motors, axles and other components are also to be manufactured in Holland. After assembly …

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… The cars go through a quality control that tests lights, brakes and acceleration, among other things. The Tesla factory even has it …

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… via an indoor test track. When the car has no flaws …

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… it rolls slowly into the next hall and is refueled there with electricity. Currently …

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… Around 90 limousines leave the factory every day. So there is still plenty of space to assemble the Model 3.

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To put it carefully, the stylized post horn that adorns the bonnet and steering wheel of the street scooter does not always awaken positive associations. For example, I automatically think of very long queues when I see this logo. Still, I couldn’t help but be a little proud of the Post as I took my seat in the driver’s seat. The street scooter can’t do more than it needs to be able to, but it can.

The display behind the steering wheel shows the state of charge of the battery, the current speed and the remaining range. Although the car has already completed its tour, the battery is still almost half full. If a street scooter has spent the night at the charging station, it can travel 50 to 60 kilometers. That may not sound like anything, but it is enough for a postman shift of six to seven hours. The distances between the stops are short, the route is the same every day.

As befits an electric car, the street scooter gets off to a quick start despite its low output of 30 kW, and a reversing camera and two side cameras ensure that the car is easy to maneuver despite its box-shaped structure, which is over two meters wide. Since the postmen often only cover a few meters at walking pace between their countless stops, the street scooter only sounds the alarm if someone who doesn’t wear seat belts is driving faster than 33 km / h with it.

Functional alternative to the Tesla philosophy

In any case, you can’t get into a rush of speed in this car. The top speed is electronically limited to 80 kilometers per hour. In town this is of course sufficient, explains an employee from Ratzeburg, the street scooter can only use a little more dynamism when driving on country roads. Unfortunately, the bonnet cannot be opened; the architecture of the asynchronous motor powered by a lithium-ion battery is apparently intended to remain a secret.

It is no secret, however, that the post office hopes that the street scooter will not only achieve a better ecological balance in the long term, but also a profitable side business: in the future, the electric delivery van will also be marketed to business customers at home and abroad.

In the case of large orders, the street scooter can be quickly adapted to the buyer’s special requirements thanks to its modular design. The former state-owned company would not have been expected to have so much disruptive energy: Parcel director Jurgen Gerdes is already raving about a functional alternative to the Tesla philosophy. There should also be the first interested parties.

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Tesla presents an affordable electric car for the first time. The presentation feels like an Apple keynote. The hype is huge, the people are enthusiastic – but what really comes out on the streets? Source: The World It will be a while before the first street scooter goes to an external bulk buyer. At the moment, Swiss Post doesn’t even want to put a price on the electric vehicle. The company will initially concentrate on electrifying its own fleet step by step. By the end of the year, 2,500 street scooters are to be used in the delivery service, and a big brother with a longer range is already being considered.

In a non-representative survey by “Welt am Sonntag” among the sales force at the delivery base in Ratzeburg, the response to the new company car was consistently positive. The easy-to-use sliding doors in particular are very popular there, and there were no failures in winter temperatures.

Only the guard dogs will probably be annoyed with the street scooter. The times are over when you could hear the postman coming from afar.

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