The USPS has doubled the number of electric vehicles it plans to buy as part of a $3 billion order for 50,000 delivery trucks.
, which includes 10,019 battery electric models , twice as many of the zero emissions vehicles as originally planned.The independent government agency had come under fire from
in February for saying it was only going to order 5,000 electric trucks after Biden pledged to transition the entire government vehicular fleet to zero-emissions vehicles.Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy previously said the agency was aiming to electrify 10% of its fleet and that it didn't have the internal budget to support the purchase of many more without additional funds provided by the federal government.
The NGDV was engineered to accommodate a variety of powertrains, including all-electric. Several prototypes are already in use by the USPS for testing and DeJoy said the final production trucks would start hitting the road sometime in 2023, but did not give a date for when the 50,000 unit order would be fulfilled.
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