The US Postal Service is going to try and reduce its carbon footprint by buying 9,000 new Ford electric vehicles.
To support the new EVs, the USPS will construct 14,000 additional charging stations in 75 different counties and municipalities.
“We are moving forward with our plans to simultaneously improve our service, reduce our cost, grow our revenue, and improve the working environment for our employees,” said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, in a statement.
“Electrification of our vehicle fleet is now an important component of these initiatives. We have developed a strategy that mitigates both cost and risk of deployment, which enables execution on this initiative to begin now.”
The benefits of electric vehicles are well-known, and for inner city delivery routes they are the optimal choice for a service dependent mostly on a 0-35 mpg average speed.
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The USPS inspector general recently found in an analysis that 99% of all postal routes are between 24-70 miles long, as even the smallest towns have a post office. This makes them serviceable by nearly any commercially available EV.
“As the technology has evolved, there is no longer any question that electric vehicles can serve the functions necessary for postal delivery,” the IG wrote in a recent white paper.
By 2026, DeJoy has said that all new purchases of EVs will be electric.
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