FedEx CEO: "Addiction" to Foreign Oil is Costing the Economy, American Lives

If I was going to buy a Tahoe, now would be a good time.

 

i can't argue with much of what he said, but if he feels that strongly, he should do more with his own fleet at least to put his money where his mouth is. what does he drive? i must have missed it.

 

wow like duh. any centralized delivery system can easily shift its major transportation options to electric.

the fedex facility in Lacey is a regional hubs and will require very large trucks to fill it, but from there, much smaller trucks radiate outwards in a predictable daily driving pattern that in most cases is EASILY within current EV technology and battery capacity range.

they leave the facility fully charged and come home to plug in at night into a grid that currently uses less than 30% of its hydroelectric capacity at night.

a study in 2007 stated that our grid could easily charge 1.5 million EVs every night and still have extra capacity. a networked L2 charging setup (nearly all L2's are networked now) coordinating directly with the power grid and each other can insure that each vehicle is charged by morning since average charge time is 7 hours but average available time to charge is more than 12 hours.

ya, we need electric.

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Mr Fedex:

Local delivery needs:
Azure Dynamics - Transit Connect Electric

Distance delivery needs:
Hybrid Electric E450 Drive System, Hybrid Trucks

Get on it and then we can talk.

 

Well, they could, but it'd be much more expensive. Delivery trucks do their shifts without returning to base and cover a lot of miles.

So, unless he gets the subsidies he was begging for, the large-scale transition is not going to happen soon. However, when battery technology, electricity and fuel prices hit a sweet spot (and it will happen at some point) delivery companies will be ready for it and will switch to EV fast.

 

Well if he is serious about those lost lives, and lost economy, that point should happen a lot sooner, probably already.

 

cant wait. they need to switch now. if they continue to wait, they will lose out of too much revenue. due to Fedex rate hikes, my company has gone from 100% free 2 day air from fedex to 5 day ground USPS.

the slower shipping option is now the standard for about 50% of our shipping needs with the option to pay for faster shipping options. i do see a time where that percentage will go up.

 

You mean like this ...

FedEx Introduces First All-Electric Trucks To Be Used in the U.S. Parcel Delivery Business | FedEx Global Newsroom



and this

FedEx Expands Hybrid-Electric Fleet by 50 Percent With Groundbreaking Conversion Program | FedEx Global Newsroom

 

they're still driving stinky diesels in my neighborhood. same with ups and usps is all gas. and they all gun the $#@* out of it after every stop. peew.

 

i live (until June) in what is labeled as high density single family housing. zoned 8-10 per acre. we have no yards but ring several parks on horseshoe shaped streets that radiate out like spokes on a wheel. Fedex ground comes here. parks and then a guy gets out his bike and delivers packages by bike.

 

To ask the question - is Prius viable or does it make sense would be ridiculous. Unless there are some materials that make it very difficult to manufacter, current Prius absolutely makes sense.

I'm finding 3rd gen Pri to handily beat the EPA estimate every time I rent the car. Might be different owning and doing lots of short trips to grocery, etc...

Look at DaveinOLY's stat of 'if my Prius were a Leaf it would cost $15 to fillup instead of $40' ....

that indicates Leaf is incredibly efficient.

Vehicle electrification I believe is the best thing to do now.

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another thing that is not as apparent is that the Leaf allows the Prius to be driven only on longer trips. right now more than 96% of short, in town trips are driven in the Leaf. the only exceptions are when two vehicles were required.

this also helps to boost the Prius mileage as well, so the real savings are actually more than that

 

I have calculated the gas mileage on the FedEx truck that I drive for work in Seattle. It gets about 11 mpg usually. As many people say the exhaust is pretty dirty. They need to have way more EV's for delivery trucks. Though I would miss the traditional high clearance in those trucks.

 

that is sweet! we live in the country on a cut thru and i see these guys go back and forth 10 times a day. i'm sure there is a reason, but it seems to be a pretty uncoordinated delivery route. not usps, they have a route and stick to it. but they're hitting every house every day.

 

That is a cute delivery truck!

Good on 'em, just suspected a pot calling the kettle black situation but it obviously was not.

 

According to our Auto Industry it's ALWAYS a good time. Chrysler has a SUV radio ad running in our area regarding "real SUV's" ... not to be confused with those, "sheep in wolf's clothing" wana be SUV's. soooo . . . how low does the mpg have to be in order to be "real". Same logic for contractor vehicles ... deliverys ... etc. At work, tge big ol Sparkletts water delivery truck used to come in and just sit there idling while the guy offloaded for 30 or 40 minutes. Now? They're using hybrid trucks ... and our two companies are LOVING it. We don't gag on fumes, and they save a boat load on fuel.

 

that's sweet. it's better in california me thinks. i like the chrysler hemi commercials. not. i wish they would just close up shop and be done with it.

 

Only 1.5 M ? that's disappointing with many magnitudes more vehicles on the road. However, we all know that even a higher prevalence of hybrid would slash oil use.

Also an ad in the paper about the new fuel efficient Durango. Go check its numbers on fueleconomy.gov. Sad, really. These things are dinosaurs, it's just sad to see them still being created and released in a $4/gallon market, must make the lot managers cry when they see them offloaded on their lot and then having to sell it.

 

Well that is 1.5 million at basically NO COST (i.e out of electricity which isn't used). After that, costs for electricity would need to be offset by savings of oil, and capacity increased in proportion.