Its original plans called for mostly gas delivery vehicles.
The environmental impact of the USPS’s proposed fleet has been closely scrutinized. In April, 16 states banded together with environmental activists to sue the service in hopes of blocking its plans to make most of the fleet gas-powered. Earlier in the year, there
after the Environmental Protection Agency said that the new vehicles, made by Oshkosh, would get a mere 8.6 miles per gallon with the air conditioning on.The USPS now says that it wants to buy an additional 34,500 “commercial off-the-shelf” vehicles over the next two years to help build out its fleet. According to its press release, it wants as many of these as are “commercially available” to be battery-powered., however, it does say that up to 14,500 of those vehicles will be gas-powered.
The USPS is under a lot of pressure to modernize its delivery vehicles. The current main workhorse of its fleet, the Grumman Long Life Vehicle, is extremely outdated; it gets terrible gas mileage, is expensive to maintain now that it’s decades old, and doesn’t have basic necessities like air bags or air conditioning . Oh, and itWhile the USPS’s plans are looking better with each update, it does remain to be seen where it will go from here.
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