Biden’s spending package would give USPS $6 billion to replace dangerous mail trucks with electric vehicles

Funding included in President Biden’s massive social spending package would allow the U.S. Postal Service to fuel 70 percent of its massive mail delivery fleet with battery-electric power by the end of the decade, according to the agency, a major win for President Biden and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who lobbied Congress for the money.

The $1.75 trillion legislation unveiled in the House on Thursday includes roughly $6 billion for the mail agency to buy trucks from Oshkosh Defense, which won a procurement battle in February to produce the fleet, dubbed “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” or NGDVs. The Postal Service plans to buy up to 165,000 NGDVs, which can run on battery power or gasoline.

Postal spokesman David Partenheimer on Friday told The Washington Post that with the funding, the agency’s vehicle acquisitions could be completely electric by 2028, a major acceleration of the agency’s procurement plans.

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Sean Wolfe

6 months ago

Luckily none of biden’s crap are the left’s crap is going to pass. Thankfully there’s a couple of Democrats with a functional brain left that are stopping all this garbage from passing.

The Democrats are out to destroy our nation thank God for the Republicans and the intelligent Democrats who are going to stop them.

Trump 2024

John Doe

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No, Reaganomics of the 1980s destroyed the US.

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