Chairwoman Maloney Seeks Documents Regarding Postal Service's Acquisition of Electric Vehicles
May 12, 2022 Press Release
Committee Hearing Revealed Postal Service Used Flawed Cost and Environmental Analysis in Decision to Purchase Limited EVs
Washington, D.C. (May 12, 2022)— Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy of the United States Postal Service, requesting information about the Postal Service’s acquisition of its Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) and urging the Postal Service to take steps to rapidly transition to an electric fleet rather than moving ahead with plans to buy tens of thousands of gas-guzzling trucks.
“Based on testimony at the Committee’s recent hearing on this topic and information obtained from the contractor building these vehicles, I am concerned that the Postal Service relied on flawed assumptions to justify the purchase of gas-powered trucks while underestimating the cost savings and environmental benefits from electric vehicles,” Chairwoman Maloney wrote.
Witnesses at the Committee’s April 5, 2022, hearing raised concerns that the Postal Service used flawed assumptions in its environmental and cost analyses to justify the purchase of gas-guzzling delivery trucks rather than electric vehicles. Jill Naamane from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified that GAO not only found the Postal Service underestimated the environmental benefits of electric vehicles, but that it used outdated estimates of gas prices, miscalculated maintenance costs for electric vehicles, and ignored the benefits of lower emissions from EVs.
Similarly, Joe Britton, Executive Director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, testified that the Postal Service’s assumptions about the cost of gasoline, the cost of electric vehicle (EV) chargers, and the range of EVs were all inaccurate, obscuring the potential savings from EVs.
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