An idea is floating around Congress now to outfit the USPS with all-electric delivery vehicles. The Post Office has the country’s largest fleet, over 220,000 vehicles, and has long been using alternative fueled vehicles. They run 5-6 days a week and make many stops – kind of like someone selling tools – so this would be a good test of their durability. Congress is talking about using another $2 Billion of our money to buy all-electric trucks with the idea this would jump-start the conversion to electric vehicles in industry. A good idea, and we do need to get off of our over-dependence on foreign oil as soon as we can, but where do we get the money? Let’s cut $2 Billion from somewhere else first, you know the people in Washington, DC can waste more than that in a week.
Will we have electric Tool Trucks one day? Hope so. We need a nice mixture of gasoline, diesel, alternative fuel, and electric in our country. If more trucks go electric, then it allows the rest of us the option of finding gasoline for our personal cars and light trucks. Going electric doesn’t mean for everyone – it doesn’t have to be all one way or another. You plug your vehicle in, I will fill mine up.
Any purchase of a large number of vehicles would be a nice boost for the tool business. An infusion of electric vehicles means a lot of new service procedures and auto techs will need some more of the same tools you sell now, and probably a lot of new tools, to work on them. Tom
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