There is a new battery-electric vehicle storming the roads of the most powerful important technical, development and innovation country in the car world. And it’s not an Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Opel, Porsche or Volkswagen. The German post office, Deutsche Post, investigated the electric commercial delivery vans on sale in its heartland and decided to do its own instead. The logistics powerhouse is replacing its fleet of Volkswagen Caddy commercial vans with a simple go-it-alone van to keep up e-commerce demand. it’s built a van called the StreetScooter and Deutsche Post is so happy with it it’s considering whether to boost the manufacturing capacity to make it widely available outside its own fleets. Deutsche Post puts the StreetScooter’s gestation and manufacture down to large steps forward in the power of design and development software that let it bring the car into production without investing millions of euros in test centres and development drivers. It insists it asked...
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