The story of the USPS’s struggles to bring a viable all-electric mail truck platform to America’s roads is well-documented and further ridiculed.
Even in 2026, their latest attempt, the Oshkosh NGDV, is bogged down in a quagmire of delays that leave just 2,500 and change in service so far. Certainly, it’s not enough to pull fleets of ancient Grumman LLVs out of service.
Little do most know, USPS tried and succeeded in producing a small handful of electric mail trucks as far back as the mid-1970s. This is the Jeep DJ-5E Electruck, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it landmark moment in the history of EVs.
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