66,000 fully electric delivery vehicles will be added to the postal service's fleet. $3 billion was secured through the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act and the mail agency agreed to spend $8.6 billion on 106,000 "next generation delivery vehicles". The USPS will only buy electric vehicles after 2026.
The previous proposal only included 40 percent EV out of 84,000 delivery vehicles. The deal came after a deal that would have only seen 10,019 EV being added to the fleet. The Biden administration's insistence that all federal vehicle purchases be emissions-free by 2035 caused a change in policy from the USPS.
The plan will result in a fully electric USPS fleet, according to John Podesta. Podesta stated in a White House press release that it places USPS at the forefront of the clean transportation revolution. Many of the 217,000 trucks in the mail service are over 30 years old and don't have safety features like air conditioning or airbags.
The $3 billion will be used to build the USPS's EV charging infrastructure, which will create a smarter network that will help make deliveries more efficient. The Biden climate strategy on wheels is moving packages from point A to point B in a way that is cleaner, more cost-effective, and faster towards an electric vehicle future.
The USPS wants to get its fleet from a defense contractor, which will provide 60,000 vehicles, with 45,000 of them being electric The mail agency wants to buy another 46,000 vans, with 21,000 of them being electric.
Podesta thinks it will force other shipping and delivery companies to up their game. Amazon ordered 100,000 Rivian EV to be on the road by the year 2030.
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