The agency isn’t funded by taxes and instead has to recoup costs by selling its services. The Postal Service has been dealing with financial constraints as well. And in an era of rising average temperatures and higher fuel prices, 10 miles per gallon is abysmal. Severe heat is a major problem on mail routes, and postal workers have died delivering mail during heat waves.
The lack of AC is actually a serious concern for letter carriers. The austere little truck gets just 10 miles per gallon and doesn’t even have air conditioning. Its iconic workhorse, the Grumman LLV, went out of production in 1994 yet continues to fill thousands of mail routes across the country. With more than 220,000 vehicles, USPS operates about one-third of all vehicles in the US government fleet, which is the largest in the world. The Postal Service has been looking for new trucks for years.
“The biggest thing was financial ability and operational suitability,” he told reporters outside the US Postal Service headquarters in Washington, DC. The economies of scale could then lower the cost of these vehicles for everyone, making it easier to decarbonize transportation, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.īut it’s not the environmental bona fides of EVs that won over Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. The $9.6 billion investment for mail trucks and chargers, including $3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, could soon give the Postal Service the largest electric fleet in the US.Ī massive bulk purchase like this stands to move the entire EV market, spurring demand for the entire electric car supply chain, from batteries to semiconductors. On Tuesday, the US Postal Service announced that it plans to buy 106,000 new vehicles by 2028, of which 66,000 will run on electricity and produce zero greenhouse gas emissions. manufacturing facility where final vehicle assembly will occur.Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor climate change stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The initial investment includes plant tooling and build-out for the U.S. The vehicles will be equipped with either fuel-efficient internal combustion engines or battery electric powertrains and can be retrofitted to keep pace with advances in electric vehicle technologies. Under the contract's initial $482 million investment, Oshkosh Defense will finalize the production design of the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) - a purpose-built, right-hand-drive vehicle for mail and package delivery - and will assemble 50,000 to 165,000 of them over 10 years. Workhorse, the Ohio-based electric vehicle-maker co-founded by Lordstown Motors CEO Steve Burns, was one of a handful of bidding companies that remained at the end of the selection process, which was delayed extensively due to the COVID-19 pandemic, USPS officials previously said. Those vehicles are expected to hit the road in 2023. Oshkosh would be expected to manufacture 165,000 of the service's next-generation delivery vehicles over the next 10 years, according to a Tuesday release.
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