Postal Service will electrify fleet by 2026 in climate win for Biden

[cigaretteman]

The U.S. Postal Service will buy 66,000 vehicles to build one of the largest electric fleets in the nation, Biden administration officials will announce Tuesday, turning to one of the most recognizable vehicles on American roads — boxy white mail trucks — to fight climate change.
The Post’s Jacob Bogage reports that postal officials’ plans call for buying 60,000 “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” from defense contractor Oshkosh, of which 45,000 will be electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told The Washington Post. The agency will also purchase 46,000 models from mainstream automakers, of which 21,000 will be electric. More from Jacob:

The Postal Service will spend $9.6 billion on the vehicles and associated infrastructure, officials said, including $3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden and congressional Democrats’ landmark climate, health-care and tax law.
By 2026, the agency will pledge to purchase zero-emissions delivery trucks almost exclusively, DeJoy said. It’s a major achievement for a White House climate agenda that leans heavily on reducing greenhouse gases from vehicles.

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[DooBi]

Hope this is a good idea.

 

[artradley]

These are perfect options for EVs.

 

[SolarHawk]

Hope this is a good idea.

Why would it not be? ICE are going bye bye. 10 years from now they won't be making them anymore.

 

[lucas80]

Biden just keeps on winning. He gets it on climate change. He gets it on the economics of using EVs for this application. This is a perfect use for EVs.

 

[artradley]

Biden just keeps on winning. He gets it on climate change. He gets it on the economics of using EVs for this application. This is a perfect use for EVs.

Now we need to focus on building nuclear power plants and wind farms. Because our electricity still tends to come from fossil fuels or damns.

 

[Bonerfarts]

The Postal Service goes electric.

 

[Titanhawk2]

What a win. At the office we get one mail truck, one UPS, 3 FedEx and at least on Amazon truck a day. The mail is usually late

 

[theiacowtipper]

Hard to question that this is anything but a great idea. Lower maintenance. Longer life and a perfect application. They are only moving 8-12 hours a day and the charging times can be scheduled to stagger the fleet charging overnight. You can probably even do sufficient charging for most of the fleet with a 110 cord. I think teslas charge at 3 miles per hour of charging on a wall outlet.

 

[peacehawk]

Hard to question that this is anything but a great idea. Lower maintenance. Longer life and a perfect application. They are only moving 8-12 hours a day and the charging times can be scheduled to stagger the fleet charging overnight. You can probably even do sufficient charging for most of the fleet with a 110 cord. I think teslas charge at 3 miles per hour of charging on a wall outlet.

5 miles per hr on wall outlet. 44 miles per hour with 220 level 2 Tesla wall connector.