I think an important thing that gets overlooked in US discourse is that purpose-built smaller delivery vehicles have surprisingly large payloads, because much more of the vehicle volume is available as cargo space. The ELM Evolv, for example, has 60% of its volume as delivery space. 4 cubic metres in a vehicle measuring 3.24m long by 1.4…
I think an important thing that gets overlooked in US discourse is that purpose-built smaller delivery vehicles have surprisingly large payloads, because much more of the vehicle volume is available as cargo space. The ELM Evolv, for example, has 60% of its volume as delivery space. 4 cubic metres in a vehicle measuring 3.24m long by 1.45m wide. That’s nearly twice as much as an F150 (77 cubic feet, 2.2 cubic metres), yet the ELM takes up less than 40% of the same road space (ie, length x width). The ELM also has much more capacity than a small van like the Ford Transit/Tourneo Courier (2.4m3) in a smaller footprint (more than a metre shorter, and 40cm narrower).
I think an important thing that gets overlooked in US discourse is that purpose-built smaller delivery vehicles have surprisingly large payloads, because much more of the vehicle volume is available as cargo space. The ELM Evolv, for example, has 60% of its volume as delivery space. 4 cubic metres in a vehicle measuring 3.24m long by 1.45m wide. That’s nearly twice as much as an F150 (77 cubic feet, 2.2 cubic metres), yet the ELM takes up less than 40% of the same road space (ie, length x width). The ELM also has much more capacity than a small van like the Ford Transit/Tourneo Courier (2.4m3) in a smaller footprint (more than a metre shorter, and 40cm narrower).
https://www.blackcircles.com/tyres/truck-van-tyres/elm-mobility-evolv-last-mile-delivery