US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery vehicles in major shift
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#671NX)
The USPS's Next Generation Delivery Vehicle" built by Oshkosh | Image: USPS The United States Postal Service said that it will add 66,000 fully electric delivery vehicles to its aging and polluting fleet of trucks. The mail agency agreed to spend $9.6 billion on 106,000 next generation delivery vehicles," which includes $3 billion secured through the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act. After 2026, USPS will only purchase EVs.
It's a significant shift from the USPS's previous proposal, which included only 40 percent EVs out of a full order of 84,000 delivery vehicles. And that deal came after an even less climate-friendly one that would have only seen 10,019 EVs being added to the fleet. But the constant pushback from Democrats and the Biden administration, which is requiring all federal vehicle...