{"id":137326,"date":"2022-03-24T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/usps-is-doubling-its-initial-order-of-electric-mail-delivery-trucks"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:23:41","slug":"usps-is-doubling-its-initial-order-of-electric-mail-delivery-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/usps-is-doubling-its-initial-order-of-electric-mail-delivery-trucks","title":{"rendered":"USPS is doubling its initial order of electric mail delivery trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/usps-is-doubling-its-initial-order-of-electric-mail-delivery-trucks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USPS has been criticized for not ordering more EVs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The United States Postal Service announced its initial order of 50,000 next-generation delivery vehicles, 10,019 of which will be battery-electric vehicles. It\u2019s a notable number considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/2\/23\/22947717\/usps-biden-dejoy-electric-mail-trucks-reject-oshkosh\">the agency\u2019s resistance<\/a> to calls for increasing the number of EVs in its future delivery fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, the postal service said it would purchase 165,000 next-generation mail trucks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/2\/25\/22300281\/usps-new-mail-truck-ev-electric-workhorse-biden-dejoy\">only 10 percent of which will be battery-electric vehicles<\/a>. President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats urged the agency to increase the number of EVs, but USPS determined there was no legal reason to change its plans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/newsroom\/national-releases\/2022\/0324-usps-places-order-for-next-gen-delivery-vehicles-to-be-electric.htm\">the postal service says<\/a> it will increase its initial order of EVs from 5,000 to 10,019, determining it \u201cmakes good sense from an operational and financial perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS has been criticized for not ordering more EVs. The United States Postal Service announced its initial order of 50,000 next-generation delivery vehicles, 10,019 of which will be battery-electric vehicles. It\u2019s a notable number considering the agency\u2019s resistance to calls for increasing the number of EVs in its future delivery fleet. Originally, the postal service [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1496,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-law","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137326","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=137326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}