The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced its plan to acquire at least 66,000 battery electric vehicles, which the company plans to deploy by 2028, with the initiative supported by funding from Congress.
The USPS is anticipating the purchase of at least 60,000 of its new “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles,” of which at least 75 percent, or 45,000, are expected to be battery electric operated, according to a Dec. 20 news release.
A total of 21,000 vehicles will be “off the shelf” commercial battery electric vehicles. The announcement comes as part of the USPS’s overall network modernization efforts.
The electric vehicles are part of a total 106,000 new delivery vehicles the agency intends to purchase by 2028. The new vehicles will begin to replace the USPS’s existing delivery fleet of more than 220,000 vehicles. The postal service received $3 billion in congressional funding under the Inflation Reduction Act for the plan….