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December 20, 2022 05:34 pm

US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery vehicles in major shift




In a lush green suburban neighborhood, a friendly USPS white truck with a new design that has a huge windshield and low to the ground hood is by a driveway delivering letters.
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...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/20/23518692/us-postal-service-ev-electric-delivery-trucks-biden-infrastructure-2026

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