Royal Mail starts to go green with fleet of cute Postman Pat style vans

Rroff · 23 Aug 2017 at 18:21

I know its not going to make a huge impact... but no solar panel on all that roof space?

Ryan-3 · 23 Aug 2017 at 18:22

Hotwired said:
No mirrors?

Why fit them? They don't use them anyway.

PiKe · 23 Aug 2017 at 18:34

I imagine it'll save them a heck of a lot of money in the congestion charging zone?

Uther · 23 Aug 2017 at 18:40

I like it.

GarethSouthpete · 23 Aug 2017 at 19:27

nobody reads the tags, heh.

norm · 27 Aug 2017 at 08:11

Yeah as expected the press-release with its CGI concept design doesn't meet the real world product which looks a darn sight uglier.

nicRob · 27 Aug 2017 at 09:01

Different vehicle, original render one is smaller

Nasher · 27 Aug 2017 at 11:23

Just looks like a normal truck with a weird looking grille.

TheVoice · 27 Aug 2017 at 11:27

Clarkey said:
It looks enormous, how large actually is it compared with the Combo vans they use now?

I imagine these would be used more in the place of larger vans/trucks rather than the small vans used for normal mail deliveries.

mrk · 27 Aug 2017 at 12:21

sigma said:
nobody reads the tags, heh.

There are now two of us!

chaparral · 27 Aug 2017 at 13:32

Nasher said:
Just looks like a normal truck with a weird looking grille.

Also only a single rear wheel on each side..

Hotwired · 27 Aug 2017 at 13:51

RUINED

It's just a regular small van now with cab separate from the load.

Also wrecked the ground clearance with the battery under it. Mounting a kerb might cause something interesting with the lithium battery pack.

Clarkey · 27 Aug 2017 at 14:19

Small van? It's a 7.5t truck!?

Housey · 27 Aug 2017 at 14:45

Just make the firs one, it will be ace and think of that with a flat 12 Ferrari engine in it and open pipes. Superb!!

[TW]Fox · 27 Aug 2017 at 15:05

Clarkey said:
Small van? It's a 7.5t truck!?

Literally the first paragraph of the article:

Nine commercial trucks of varying sizes