The agency will purchase 66,000 new electric mail trucks over the next five years, while pledging to buy almost exclusively battery-powered vehicles by 2026, as part of President Joe Biden's efforts to fight climate change.
The plan, announced Tuesday, will begin to phase out and replace the Postal Service's 220,000 aging gas-powered vehicles – the largest fleet in the federal government – with mostly electric trucks. Climate activists have pushed the Postal Service to make the electric switch for more than a decade.How the shift to electric mail trucks will unfold
The funding to begin converting the fleet comes from $9.6 billion approved by Congress including $3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden's signature climate law. Biden's goal is to eventually electrify the federal government's entire fleet of 650,00 vehicles. Transportation makes up 29% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, more than any other sector, and gas-guzzling Postal Service trucks – some more than 30 years old – comprise nearly one of every three vehicles operated by the federal government outside the Pentagon.John Podesta, the president's senior advisor on climate policy, commended the move.
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