"Postal Service Stirs Ire by Buying Gasoline Trucks and a Few EVs"

"The U.S. Postal Service currently plans for only 10% of its new truck fleet to be electric, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Wednesday, angering environmentalists who say the move flies in the face of a White House executive order to electrify the government’s vehicles.

DeJoy’s revelation in a hearing before a House panel comes the day after the Postal Service announced that Wisconsin-based maker of military trucks, Oshkosh Corp., had won a long-delayed $6 billion contract to replace the service’s fleet of gas-guzzling postal trucks."

Ari Natter and Todd Shields report for Bloomberg News February 24, 2021.

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"Losing Bid for Postal Contract Proves Costly for Electric-Vehicle Maker" (New York Times)

Source: Bloomberg, 02/25/2021