"The Oversight and Reform Committee will hold a hearing on the mail service’s ‘next generation delivery vehicles,’ which get 8.6 mpg".

"A key House panel announced plans Thursday to question senior U.S. Postal Service officials about the agency’s decision to buy as many as 148,000 gas-guzzling mail delivery trucks despite directives from the Biden administration to green the federal fleet and opposition from top environmental regulators.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday about the mail service’s “next generation delivery vehicles,” or NGDVs, which hit the road starting in 2023. The Postal Service will spend as much as $11.3 billion with Oshkosh Defense over the next decade to replace its aging fleet but has committed to only 10 percent of the new trucks being electric.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy placed the order for the first 50,000 NGDVs on March 24; 20 percent of that purchase was for electric vehicles."

Jacob Bogage reports for the Washington Post April 1, 2022. [2]