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.
According to internal company records and interviews with individuals familiar with the project, the Postal Service had received only 93 of the “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” (NGDVs) from contractor Oshkosh as of November. This falls far short of the 3,000 trucks that were expected by this point in the rollout.
