US Postal Service Finally Moving Toward All Electric Vehicles

From Environment America (https://environmentamerica.org/):

Exciting news! After hearing the call from advocates like you, the U.S. Postal Service is ready to go all electric.

The agency’s initial meager commitment to electric vehicles (EVs) sparked advocates to push them to go further. And with this new agreement, the upgrade to EVs will replace most of USPS’ aging and inefficient fleet of mail trucks.

This is huge for our climate — the Postal Service has the largest federal government fleet, and EVs will zero out tailpipe pollution that warms our planet and pollutes our air.

Mail trucks drive through our neighborhoods every day, reliably delivering the mail in the rain, snow, sleet and shine. The new electric mail trucks will bring clean electric vehicles to every corner of America, a shining example of the fossil fuel free future we’re working towards.

And we’ll no longer have to breathe in the fumes of inefficient, gas-guzzling mail trucks.

Thanks to environmental activists like you, we’re getting more electric vehicles on the road and cleaning up air pollution.

Seventy-five percent of the next batch of mail trucks that USPS purchases will be electric. And by 2026, USPS will only purchase EVs.¹

This couldn’t have happened without you. Along with our national network, Environment America generated over 100,000 actions calling on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to commit to all electric mail trucks.

And you helped convince Congress to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $3 billion to electrify the Postal Service. With the combination of federal funding and our voices, USPS has agreed to go all electric.

1. Lisa Frank and Matt Casale, “Statement: US Postal Service’s electric vehicle purchases will help deliver a cleaner future,” Environment America, December 20, 2022.