The electric last mile is a routing constraint

Purolator’s electric fleet has passed 550 vehicles — a last-mile carrier committing to electric at a scale that changes the routing math. Electric last-mile trucks have range envelopes that are anything in an actual window: cold weather, elevation and load all move the range by the hour.

Last-mile electrification is a routing constraint

A combustion van can ignore the battery. An electric van forces the dispatch system to respect range as a hard resource: what loop can the van do today? Which depot does it come home to? Where is the next charger relative to the route? The systems that treat range as a live input, and that settle the trip against real consumption, will out-operate fleets that still plan the old way.

Range is a routing constraint that changes with the weather.

• Routes built against real range, not a brochure number.
• Depot charging slots reserved before the loop starts.
• Settlement with the actual kilowatt-hours consumed, per trip.

Fifty-five hundred EVs are a fleet. Five hundred are a statement. The network that optimizes range instead of bragging about it is the one that survives the electric transition.