Reva to carry snail mail in Thiruvananthapuram

REVA Electric Car Company (RECC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kerala Postal Services.

As part of the partnership, RECC will provide three specially customised REVA electric cars to deliver and collect mail in Thiruvananthapuram city and its suburbs. The project will be closely monitored both by RECC and the postal department over a period of 11 months.

Three REVA electric speed post vehicles will be delivered to the Kerala postal circle from Bangalore on March 27 and the new speed post service will be inaugurated on April 16 in Thiruvananthapuram.

Painted a uniform 'post office' red colour, these cars will run 60 km a day on an average and be able to carry a load of up to 70 kg apart from a driver and postman. The vehicles are on display at the ongoing national conference of head of postal circles in Bangalore.

The car manufacturer will also work with the Kerala postal circle to prepare a 450-km route map between Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram to locate charging points at different post offices where the electric cars can be recharged.