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Smith Electric Vehicles is the largest manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles. Based in England, Smith USA is headquartered in Kansas City Missouri.
Frito-Lay owns the seventh largest fleet in the U.S. with a total of over 20,000 trucks and have nearly 200 all-electric trucks in the fleet, with plans to buy 100 more this year. The all-electric trucks are used for deliveries on urban routes with fewer daily miles.
"Finally!" I thought when I first saw this press release. Every time I see my mail delivery person in their gasoline mini-van I wonder why such a great application for electric vehicles has been ignored.
However, it's not a contract to electrify the Postal Service fleet, it's only a test contract in the hope that funding will be past. Still a very positive move, but not as conclusive as I had hoped.
Available without a body, with a box body, a refrigerated box body, and, the most popular, with a box body with an aerodynamic cab top that blends in to the box. The aerodynamic cab seems to be the most popular based on the number of pictures I see of it compared to the others.
It comes in three wheelbase lengths, and a variety of cab heights, GVWs, box lengths, and more.
