The U.S. Postal Service stated it will considerably boost the number of electric-powered cars it’s purchasing to change its fleet of aging shipment trucks, after the Biden administration and ecological groups stated the firm’s preliminary strategy had too coupleof electrical automobiles and fell brief of the administration’s environment modification objectives.
The Postal Service now desires 50% of its preliminary purchase of 50,000 next-generation cars to be electrical, up from the previous strategy for 20% being electrical. The veryfirst of those oughtto be rolling onto shipment paths next year. It likewise proposes purchasing an extra 34,500 commercially readilyavailable automobiles over 2 years, authorities stated. The Postal Service’s fleet presently consistsof 190,000 regional shipment automobiles.
A strategy revealed in February would haveactually made simply 10% of the company’s next-generation fleet electric. The Environmental Protection Agency stated the preliminary strategy by the Postal Service, an independent company, “underestimates greenhouse gas emissions, stopsworking to thinkabout more ecologically protective possible options and improperly thinksabout affects on neighborhoods with ecological justice issues.”
The brand-new ecological proposition successfully stopsbriefly the purchases at 84,500 overall cars — 40% electrical — even as the Postal Service looksfor to buy up to 165,000 next-generation cars over a years to change shipment trucks that went into service inbetween 1987 and1994 More than 141,000 automobiles in service are the blocky, identifiable Grumman LLV design, which absence security functions like air bags, anti-