The Largest Electric Vehicle Fleet In The US Will Belong To…The US Postal Service
The US Postal Service has tapped the Ford E-Transit electric van to help electrify the entire mail delivery infrastructure.
The US Postal Service has tapped the Ford E-Transit electric van to help electrify the entire mail delivery infrastructure.
With over 250,000 vehicles in service, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has one the world’s largest truck fleets. Over the past several years, the USPS worked to plan the replacement of its aging delivery truck fleet with a mix of both electric and combustion vehicle. If electric delivery vehicle … [continued]
The California firm AJR Trucking will use its new zero emission fuel cell trucks from Nikola Motor to haul mail for the US Postal Service.
USPS announced today it will purchase 9,250 Ford E-Transit electric vans with deliveries starting before the end of this year.
Thousands of gasmobiles are still in the picture, but the US Postal Service is adding ten of thousands of electric vehicles to its fleet, too.
ACS Publications: Abstract “The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to purchase 165,000 next-generation delivery vehicles (NGDVs) between 2023 and 2032. The USPS submitted an environmental impact statement (EIS) for two NGDV procurement scenarios: (1) 90% internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) and 10% battery electric vehicles (BEVs) (‘ICEV scenario’) and (2) 100% BEVs (‘BEV scenario’). To correct several significant deficiencies in the EIS, we conduct a cradle-to-grave life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment of these two scenarios.”
The US Postal Service finally commits to more electric vehicles, and a $3 billion carve-out in the new climate bill should help grease the skids.
Everyone is talking about the electric vehicle race between Amazon and Walmart, but the US Postal Service is also coming on strong.
While the US Postal Service fiddles with gasmobiles, Ford Motor Company launches new E-Transit electric vehicles at the delivery van market.
The Ford E-Transit van EV is taking off like a rocket, which makes it all the harder to explain why the US Postal Service is dragging its electrification heels.