The USPS will order 9,250 Ford E-Transit EVs and 14,000 EV chargers

MSN via The Verge ^ | 03/01/2023 | Mitchell Clark

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The US Postal Service is buying 9,250 Ford E-Transit battery-electric vehicles and 14,000 EV charging stations from three different suppliers as part of its plans to electrify a large portion of its mail delivery fleet. In an announcement post on Tuesday, the agency said it hasn’t finalized plans for where the vehicles and infrastructure will be deployed but intends to “begin building out its charging infrastructure across a minimum of 75 locations within the next 12 months.”

USPS will order 9,250 Ford E-Transit EVs and 14,000 EV chargers (Image: Ford)

The chargers will help power a growing number of EVs. In December, the USPS announced its plans to add 66,000 electric vehicles to its fleet by 2028. While around 45,000 of those will be “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” (NGDV) manufactured by Oshkosh, the agency said it also planned to incorporate 21,000 commercial off-the-shelf EVs. The E-Transits will make up around 44 percent of those commercial vehicles.

It’s not necessarily a surprise that the USPS went with the E-Transit, despite the agency saying that it went through “a competitive search” to select it. For one, Ford is also involved in the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle project, providing engines and other components to Oshkosh. And when the USPS was considering commercial alternatives to the NGDV for an environmental impact statement, it used the E-Transit as an example of a commercial off-the-shelf EV.

[Pelham]

bkmk

[wbslws]

And of course our mail will be late or destroyed in a burning van.

[Tennessee Nana]

Neither snow nor ...

But the need for a recharger will ...

[doorgunner69]

And, you if think your delivery is late and spradic now, the drivers will now have an excuse.

[mikey_hates_everything]

USPS can’t do anything right and should wait for FedEx and UPS to do it first (if ever) and then learn from them.

[doorgunner69]

Will the drivers have to wear face diapers like so many of the liberals driving the wretched little cars do?

How else can the USPS virtue signal?

[Fai Mao]

They’d be better off buying wagons and mules.

[wjcsux]

What can possibly go wrong?

[traditional2]

Ah, yes.......the Global Warming scam by the Elites follows its course, with pockets of the Big Donors being lined with taxpayer dollars.

You'll be FORCED to buy EV's or you'll be FORCED to use "public transportation".

[Obadiah]

If the US Post Office is doing this you know to run in the exact opposite direction.

[\/\/ayne]

Hope it doesn't rain too much.

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[Pelham]

I’ve thought that if any outfit would benefit from EVs it would be the Post Office. Relatively low daily mileage that ends right back where they start.

I saw a test vehicle on a mounted USPS route a few years ago. No wasteful idling like the gas trucks. Current EVs have regenerative braking which recovers energy and spares brake wear. Far fewer parts to maintain. I have friends with Teslas, their idea of routine maintenance is filling the windshield washer fluid.

[Obadiah]

I give this 2 years, max. With billions in loses, the postal service will be a smoking crater. But yeah, I guarantee hundreds and hundreds of fawning local and national media stories about the EVS. Few will follow up when the inevitable disaster plays out.

[laplata]

And postage will go up 50%.

[Pelham]

Amazon has Rivian building EV vans for them. Walmart has been testing EVs made by Canoo. UPS is working with the UK firm Arrival. FedEx is working with GM subsidiary BrightDrop. All of the big delivery firms are headed in that direction.

[DogByte6RER]

In other news … the US Postal Service has announced another postal rate increase and even slower delivery times due to their new fleet of limited range and forever charging EV postal delivery vehicles.

[kiryandil]

Yeah, I’m going to have to examine my USPS usage in a serious manner.

[jimnm]

Both UPS and FedEx operate electric delivery vehicles. Both have large orders placed for more deliveries. They don’t operate them outside of densely populated areas since that’s where it makes the most commercial sense. Who knows where the post office wants to put theirs though since it’s the post office. Where they put them probably won’t be commercially viable.

[bigbob]

Of course they already are, UPS to buy 10,000 EVs from UK-based Arrival in addition to the 13k they have now.