America Postal Service (USPS) introduced plans to buy hundreds of electrical supply automobiles from Ford Motor Firm. The transfer is a part of the USPS’s efforts to ‘greenify’ 75% of its fleet over the following 5 years. 

USPS awarded a contract to buy 9,250 Ford E-Transit Battery Electrical Autos (BEVs). The primary supply of the EV mail vehicles will start in December of this 12 months. 

“These domestically sourced automobiles will probably be one hundred pc electrical and are a part of the 21,000 COTS automobiles included within the Postal Service’s car acquisition plan introduced in December 2022. The Ford E-Transit BEVs are manufactured in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri,” USPS wrote in a press release. 

Along with the 9,250 EV mail vehicles, USPS awarded contracts to a few suppliers for the acquisition of 14,000 charging stations to be put in at mail amenities. 

“We’re shifting ahead with our plans to concurrently enhance our service, scale back our value, develop our income, and enhance the working surroundings for our staff. Electrification of our car fleet is now an vital element of those initiatives,” Postmaster Normal Louis DeJoy stated within the assertion. 

The contract is a big pivot for USPS, which had introduced early final 12 months that it might exchange its 30-plus-year-old fleet of mail vehicles with gasoline-fueled fashions made by Oshkosh Corp. That will’ve disenchanted the Biden administration, which has been trying to impress the federal authorities’s fleet of automobiles. USPS has the nation’s largest federal fleet. 

After dealing with criticism from some members of Congress and receiving a $3 billion funding enhance from the Biden administration’s Inflation Discount Act, the postal service modified its strategy in December. The group then introduced a brand new plan to amass 66,230 electrical supply vans by 2028, costing $10 billion.