UPS Is Now Delivering Some Packages By Electric Tricycle

[cheryl]

UPS Is Now Delivering Some Packages By Electric Tricycle - Fast Company

A new UPS delivery trike in Portland, Oregon, pedaled by a driver with help from an electric motor, can only hold a tenth of the packages as a standard-size truck. But because the tiny trike doesn't get stuck in traffic, it (alongside a standard fleet of trucks) can help the company become more efficient in a crowded urban neighborhood.

"With a full-size delivery vehicle, you can't get it into places that you would with an e-bike," says Scott Phillippi, an automotive engineer at UPS. "It's part of an overall strategy to make an impact on the environment as well as become more efficient in doing so."

 

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UPS Is Now Delivering Some Packages By Electric Tricycle - Fast Company

A new UPS delivery trike in Portland, Oregon, pedaled by a driver with help from an electric motor, can only hold a tenth of the packages as a standard-size truck. But because the tiny trike doesn't get stuck in traffic, it (alongside a standard fleet of trucks) can help the company become more efficient in a crowded urban neighborhood.

"With a full-size delivery vehicle, you can't get it into places that you would with an e-bike," says Scott Phillippi, an automotive engineer at UPS. "It's part of an overall strategy to make an impact on the environment as well as become more efficient in doing so."

Plus the company can pay them helper wages and they don't need a DOT license.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Plus the company can pay them helper wages and they don't need a DOT license.

Is that a special license that I have never heard of?

 

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Is that a special license that I have never heard of?

Probably.
FYI: A DOT license is a short way of saying you're certified to drive commercially having passed a DOT exam.
TTKU.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The proper terminology would be a DOT medical card and applicable state driver's license.

TTKU

 

[upschuck]

How can this not get stuck in traffic? It is illegal here for a motorized vehicle to be anywhere but the street, and when in street has to obey all traffic laws.