Posted on 12/02/2025 1:55:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — The US Postal Service’s promised all-electric fleet is still woefully behind schedule, with more than $3 billion in taxpayer funding out the door and just 612 of the expected 35,000 battery-powered delivery trucks built, according to a letter sent to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and obtained by The Post.
Former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) set aside $3 billion for what Ernst has since ripped as a green “boondoggle” that saw almost all of that amount paid to Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh to build the environmentally friendly mail trucks.
Ernst, who chairs the Senate’s DOGE caucus, said in July this year that with $2.6 billion paid to Oshkosh and just 250 trucks produced so far, she was “working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people,” as part of a rescissions package passed by Congress.
As of Nov. 10, a USPS executive told the senator, only 612 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles that are battery-electric powered (NGDV BEVs) are on the road, bringing mail to 15 sites across the nation.
In addition, 6,651 charging ports — around three times the number of vehicles currently being used — have been “commissioned at 75 sites,” according to Pastre, who claimed that none of the $3 billion appropriated under the IRA will be “available for rescission.”
“Here is a ‘fact check’ for the USPS — spending $1.7 billion to produce only 612 EVs is a tremendous waste,” Ernst said.
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One...giant...scam...
That’s approximately $5,000,000 per truck.
A Fleet of Garbage
Holy crap! Thats between 5 and 10 million dollars per vehicle!
Spent?! My foot, the democrats looted it.
We’ve seen a couple of these buggies.
Both were being carted away.
Translation: EV owning postal workers are getting free charging for their personal driving. Assuming, of course, the chargers exist in real life and not just on paper.
Pure liberal insanity
Mr. President, Please pull the plug on this scam !!!!
Newman !!!!
Just buy more of the right hand drive chrysler minivans I’ve seen out there. They can’t be that expensive.
CC
$4,901,960 per vehicle.
Yup.
The Deep States needed the money in order to overthrow Trump.
The Grumman LLV had a unit cost of about $12K and they bought 99,000 of them. That under $2B total.
EV’s are garbage. Scrap them and move on.
We all know the never violated rule concerning the left:
Everything they touch turns to shi...er...Obamastuff.
Everything.
Totally everything.
Mucho totally everything.
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