The USPS proposes a new mail delivery fleet that’s 40 percent electric
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#61NH2)
The service's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, which is being built by Oshkosh. | Image: USPS The United States Postal Service, or USPS, has another new proposal that raises the percentage of electric vehicles it plans on purchasing to modernize its fleet (via Electrek). In a press release on Wednesday, the service said that at least 50 percent" of its initial order for 50,000 next-generation mail trucks will be battery electric vehicles. That's quite a change from what USPS leadership announced in February when they said that only 10 percent of the service's new fleet would be electric.
That number did get bumped up in March when the service announced it was planning an initial order including 10,019 electric trucks, just a few weeks after telling President Biden that it would continue with its plans to obtain mostly...