USPS to Add 45,000 EVs to its Fleet By 2028
Source: Jalopnik
USPS to Add 45,000 EVs to its Fleet By 2028
After 2026, all new orders of the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle will be EV only.
By Collin Woodard
Published 15 minutes ago
The United States Postal Service announced today that its delivery vehicles are going electric. Of the more than 60,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles that the USPS intends to order by 2028, at least 45,000 will be EVs. And starting in 2026, it will exclusively order electric NGDVs.
The NGDV isn't the only vehicle the Post Office uses, though. As part of its plans to buy a total of 106,000 new vehicles to replace its aging 220,000-vehicle fleet, at least 66,000 will be electric by 2028. The total investment is expected to cost about $9.6 billion.
USPS initially only planned to order 5,000 electric delivery vehicles but announced in March that it had increased that number to 10,000. Then over the summer, it announced that it planned to increase its EV orders once again. According to the release, the Post Office was able to boost the number of electric NGDVs due to an additional $3 billion in funding allocated to it in the Inflation Reduction Act.
In a statement, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said:
The $3 billion provided by Congress has significantly reduced the risk associated with accelerating the implementation of a nationwide infrastructure necessary to electrify our delivery fleet. While most of the electric vehicle funding will continue to come from Postal Service revenues, we are grateful for the confidence that Congress and the Administration have placed in us to build and acquire what has the potential to become the largest electric vehicle fleet in the nation.
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Read more: https://jalopnik.com/usps-goes-all-in-on-evs-adds-45000-to-fleet-by-2028-1849914878
Jalopnik usually gets its stories from somewhere else. I didn't catch what their source was for this.
Here are a few:
https://news.google.com/search?qusps%20electric%20vehicles&hlen-US&glUS&ceidUS%3Aen
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Management
USPS Plans to Electrify 75% of its Fleet
After improving its financial outlook and receiving a funding jolt from Congress, the Postal Service will only buy EVs starting in 2026.
DECEMBER 20, 2022 01:12 PM ET
https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/12/usps-plans-electrify-75-its-fleet/381126/
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... and FIRES Louis DeJoy!
and those are -
William D. Zollars Governor Republican June 18, 2020 December 8, 2022
And per this - https://prospect.org/politics/dejoys-continued-job-security-depends-on-bidens-next-move/
DeJoy’s Continued Job Security Depends on Biden’s Next Move
Two more members of the Postal Service Board of Governors finish their terms in December. Biden could replace them with members willing to fire the postmaster general.
by David Dayen
August 17, 2022
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THE MEMBERS WITH EXPIRING TERMS are William Zollars, a Republican, and Donald Lee Moak, a Democrat. Both were confirmed in June 2020 and both have terms that expire on December 8, 2022. Both Zollars and Moak have expressed support for DeJoy in the recent past. In February 2021, Zollars specifically said that DeJoy had “support on both sides of the aisle”; he was referring to both Moak and Ron Bloom, the former chair of the board, who was ousted in November of last year when his term expired.
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Meaning these 2 need to go.
This past January, before Biden hit the "majority of appointments" (where he only reached that threshold after 2 more appointees were confirmed in May 2022), the Board as configured in January 2022 put one of the Republicans "in charge" as Chairman -
Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED
January 13, 2022 6:53 am
The Postal Service has named a new chairman to its Board of Governors, a move that will likely ensure Postmaster General Louis DeJoy stays on as the agency’s chief executive. The USPS Board of Governors on Wednesday unanimously elected Roman Martinez IV, a Republican member of the board, to serve as its next chairman.
Martinez will take over for Democrat Ron Bloom, a former member of the board whose term expired in December. The board also elected Anton Hajjar, former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, to serve as its vice chairman.
Martinez pointed to the Biden administration’s upcoming plans to mail millions of COfVID-19 testing kits to households as a sign that the White House holds confidence in the agency’s leadership. He also praised DeJoy as a “transformational leader” who is helping USPS improve its long-term financial health.
“The best team needs a leader, and I believe that Postmaster General DeJoy is that person to carry out the restructure that is needed,” Martinez said.Martinez also applauded the rollout of a 10-year reform plan last year, which looks to reverse the impact of 15 years of annual net losses by 2030. Under that plan, USPS has increased mail prices and implemented a new service standard that slows the delivery of 40% of first-class mail.
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https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2022/01/new-usps-board-chairman-supports-dejoy-self-sustaining-operating-model/
So this is the kind of crap that is going on there (Martinez's slot is up in 2024).
And I just found this interesting tidbit article -
Before exiting Congress, two Democrats are soliciting support for nominations from President Biden.
October 27, 2022
Eric Katz
Senior Correspondent
Two Democratic lawmakers who will no longer serve in Congress next year are looking to the U.S. Postal Service to continue their careers in the federal government.
Both Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., have thrown their names into the White House’s hat as it contemplates potential replacements for two of the nine appointed slots on the USPS board of governors. Maloney and Lawrence have reached out to postal unions and management associations soliciting support for their candidacies, according to several people involved in those discussions, and some vetting is underway.
The terms of two current board members, Lee Moak and Bill Zollars, are set to expire Dec. 8, though both are eligible to be kept on for a “carryover year.” President Biden could also opt to renominate one or both governors to a seven-year term. Any of the president’s postal board nominees would have to be confirmed by the Senate.
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https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/10/two-outgoing-lawmakers-are-jockeying-slots-usps-board/378995/
Maloney lost a primary to Jerrold Nadler when their Districts were combined. And beacause the Board has an "Independent", the "no more than 5 members of a party" rule has not been met and *theoretically", Biden could nominate 2 Democrats to fill the current (D) and (R) seats, although it might not likely happen unless he decided to go radical.
It's obviously a bit late for the Senate to try to hold a hearing and a vote on any nominees not already in the pipeline now but they could do so in January when any nominees not dealt with in the 117th Congress and any new ones submitted to the 118th, can get the review and votes.