Amazon revealed their new electric delivery truck, developped in collaboration with Rivian. Electric is perfect for that sort of application, it looks cool and smiley and all, but ... but ... but ... why is this truck floor as high as a regular gasoline/diesel truck ?!?
On a regular ICE truck, the floor is fairly high as it sits above the frame, which itself sits above the suspension and clears enough space for the transmission and rear differential.
I don’t know how this thing is built, but electric vehicles don’t need a front engine with a transmission going all down the truck and no differential.
The delivery drivers spend their entire day going in and out, up and down the truck. One would think a dedicated vehicle would take that into account and take advantage of the flexibility in design of the electrical powerplant to keep both the driver and the cargo close(r) to ground level. But that’s not the case :
Why ?