'A gas-guzzling fleet is clearly the wrong choice.'
"The U.S. Postal Service employs 217,000 delivery vehicles to deliver mail and parcels to more than 135 million addresses. Many of these vehicles are beyond their intended service life and expensive to operate and maintain," states the report."The Postal Service is at a critical inflection point for its aging fleet and is preparing to acquire and operate a new generation of delivery vehicles.
"Our research confirms that electric vehicle technology is generally capable of meeting the Postal Service's needs," the analysis adds, pointing out that of the roughly 177,000 USPS routes nationwide, only"around 2,600 of these routes may be poorly suited to electric vehicle deployment."
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