Summary
USPS plans to continue its EV transition despite resistance from Trump’s team.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy affirmed the $3 billion electrification effort, funded by last year’s climate bill, as “business sense,” with 75% of the fleet targeted for electrification by 2026.
Trump’s team aims to cancel contracts, favoring gas-powered vehicles.
USPS has ordered 66,000 EVs by 2028, including vehicles from Oshkosh and Ford.
While critics argue against high costs, USPS maintains that legislative action would be required to halt its EV plans, which aim to modernize its 217,000-vehicle fleet.
The only sane thing DeJoy wants to do. The USPS fleet is grossly outdated and electric vehicles make perfect engineering sense for distribution routes with lots of stop/start and idling. It’ll lower their overall maintenance budget by tens of millions easy.
It’s happening despite DeJoy. He tried to commission ICEs with even worse mpg than the current fleet. Congress said hell no
Sounds like simple math saved the day here.
Ah yes, DeJoy is suddenly the defender of all things right with USPS because they held a sham “grilling” in the House. Please, give me a break.
He’s just another CEO tbh, but the only shred of credit I’m willing to give him is that he’s not a profit ghoul by total choice, that would be the bill passed in 1970 in retaliation for the largest wildcat strike in US history. Nixon put the USPS into billions of debt.
He’s a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump’s agenda of destroying USPS. His leadership have caused medicine deliveries to fail, food packages to expire, and put mail-in voting at risk. I won’t let this congressional performance and the media’s complicity in it white wash his record.
https://www.citizen.org/article/guaranteed-delivery-dejoys-post-office-corruption/
As long as they don’t go postal, all’s good
vehicles that do a lot of stop and go very locally. shit put solar panels on the roofs.
People would have hated it, but if they partnered with Google years ago, they could have gotten street view hooked up to the USPS trucks and got updating street views and maps fairly regularly, while outsourcing some of the costs to them, probably 10 years to late though.
