{"id":122150,"date":"2021-05-01T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/oshkosh-takes-victory-lap-over-postal-service-delivery-truck-contract"},"modified":"2021-05-09T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:51:45","slug":"oshkosh-takes-victory-lap-over-postal-service-delivery-truck-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/oshkosh-takes-victory-lap-over-postal-service-delivery-truck-contract","title":{"rendered":"Oshkosh takes victory lap over Postal Service delivery truck contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px; display:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/oshkosh-takes-victory-lap-over-postal-service-delivery-truck-contract\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/543591602\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/543591602<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oshkosh can make 100% battery-electric delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal Service, likely dashing Workhorse\u2019s hopes of reigniting the competition.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Oshkosh Truck Corp. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barchart.com\/stocks\/quotes\/OSK\/overview\">NYSE: OSK<\/a>) can make 100% battery-electric delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal Service, undercutting an assertion by Workhorse Group (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barchart.com\/stocks\/quotes\/WKHS\/overview\">NASDAQ: WKHS<\/a>) that its being passed over for the contract dooms the mail service to remaining a source of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, Oshkosh President and CEO John Pfeifer told analysts on the company\u2019s fiscal second-quarter earnings call Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can do 100% electric vehicles from Day One,\u201d Pfeiffer said. \u201cIf the U.S. Postal Service came to us tomorrow and said, \u2018We\u2019ve got the funding to do 100% electric from 2023,\u2019 we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/543591602 Oshkosh can make 100% battery-electric delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal Service, likely dashing Workhorse\u2019s hopes of reigniting the competition. Oshkosh Truck Corp. (NYSE: OSK) can make 100% battery-electric delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal Service, undercutting an assertion by Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) that its being passed over for the contract dooms the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122429,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122150\/revisions\/122429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}