Posted on 12/16/2024 10:24:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The U.S. Postal Service’s multibillion-dollar program to purchase electric mail delivery trucks is severely delayed, another bungled EV program to further tarnish Joe Biden’s presidency.
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Postal Service’s ambitious plan to modernize its aging delivery fleet with electric vehicles is significantly behind schedule. The $10 billion project, which received $3 billion in funding from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, is a crucial part of outgoing President Joe Biden’s climate change agenda.
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There are going to be a lot of frozen electric postal vehicles imitating bricks on the side of the road in future Januaries here in the Northeast.
Better them than me.
Those clown shoe-shaped abominations should be canceled outright.
The irony is that local postal trucks are one of the few areas where EVs may make sense. But its the postal service so they will massively screw it up.
But the big guy got his 10% I bet.
Agreed. I imagine they drive tons of miles (enough for the gas and oil change savings to be worth the extra costs of an EV).
One part that I'm sure is not behind schedule is the grift money.
The parts are being delivered by the USPS
Trump will roll it right back.
As long as they can finish the route before running out of juice. But yes, local delivery routes make the most sense for this type of vehicle.
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”
Except for the electric vehicles which won’t function in deep cold or high temperatures.
Rural New England in the winter is going to be where electric postal vehicles go to die.
Urban postal vehicles get into a lot of fender benders.
That could get interesting.
Neither lack of charging, nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...
Interesting take, the only electric versions are beta units, everything coming off the assembly line is internal combustion engine units (about 1 completed vehicle a day, supposed to ramp up to 10 right after the holidays.)
Couldn’t produce the electric versions if they wanted to, since the platform used is the same as the eTransit and Ford’s still working on fulfilling the 21,000 vehicles USPS bought from them.
Dodge is, what, now 8 months behind providing the production units of their electric Promaster? Just heard that was delayed yet again.
Amazon seems to be doing alright with them. I'd say at least half of their trucks I see hereabouts are the "Fischer-Price" electric trucks.
Trump should revoke and cancel this garbage. Or cancel as much of the contract as he is able too.
Instead of designing and the producing custom mail delivery vehicles with their typical government cost overruns and delayed delivery, couldn’t the Post Office use an existing vehicle platform with a few modifications?
On the surface it makes sense but in reality it doesn't.
Charging all the vehicles at the same time overnight will require gobs and gobs of amperage. There is no place in few dozen cities let alone every city in the country that can handle the power requirements. And don't forget the cold weather achillies heel.
Tesla could have easily built these UV vehicles on time, for $50000 each. Though, Tesla would have had to partner up with a major automobile company to use one of their (mothballed?) assembly lines. Ford, Toyota... whomever. Nissan must have under utilized assembly lines. (they are close to bankruptcy) They make Frontiers and other trucks that would be suitable for mailmen.
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