US Postal Service says it is going electric despite Trump
US Postal Service says it is going electric despite Trump
Trump aims to cancel contracts for new EVs for the US Postal Service, but the postmaster general says he defends its electrification plans and won’t return any funding for EVs – unless Congress forces the issue, of course.
Summary
USPS plans to continue its EV transition despite resistance from Trump’s team.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy affirmed the $3 billion electrification effort, funded by last year’s climate bill, as “business sense,” with 75% of the fleet targeted for electrification by 2026.
Trump’s team aims to cancel contracts, favoring gas-powered vehicles.
USPS has ordered 66,000 EVs by 2028, including vehicles from Oshkosh and Ford.
While critics argue against high costs, USPS maintains that legislative action would be required to halt its EV plans, which aim to modernize its 217,000-vehicle fleet.
Just a reminder that Republicans have the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court of the US. Enjoy the fossil fuels.
I hear that if you huff gas enough it all makes sense.
I wonder if people understand what a massive threat this is. The destruction of the United States Postal Service would be catastrophic. These private companies that are circling around here rely on the Postal Service. A lot of them only do the final leg of deliveries, if even that. They rely on the postal service for a lot of the in-between work. Meaning of the Postal Service collapses as they seem to be trying to cause then they'll be no one to cover the in-between Services except them. Meaning their prices will Skyrocket.
The only sane thing DeJoy wants to do. The USPS fleet is grossly outdated and electric vehicles make perfect engineering sense for distribution routes with lots of stop/start and idling. It'll lower their overall maintenance budget by tens of millions easy.
It's happening despite DeJoy. He tried to commission ICEs with even worse mpg than the current fleet. Congress said hell no
This is the weirdest timeline. Here I am agreeing with DeJoy, who I've advocated be removed from office, literally for YEARS. smh.
Nah, you're good. They're moving forward with this despite DeJoy
Even broken clocks that have been driven over by a semitruck can still be right twice a day.
To anyone thinking they agree with DeJoy allow me to rephrase this:
USPS maintains that legislative action would be required to halt its EV plans wink wink, nudge nudge
At the same time, laws can be challenged by blue states in friendly courts, tying things up. That's even if it passes. The house is down to 5 seats, many of them were mighty, mighty close. They will fuck us often mind you, but the mid hanging fruit will be hard to pluck. Rolling this back will affect 1000 jobs in Tennessee, so suddenly you have opposition in the GOP.
Because Congress forced it to, after DeJoy tried to lock in an order for millions of 4 mpg shitmobiles
It’s still amazing that this South Carolina Republican would screw over his own constituents. For what benefit? To show loyalty to Trump? GOP is all about party over country.
I wonder if the new scout factory is his is district too. Interesting the state swoons these EV companies to invest in their state and then screw them over, actually not surprising it’s pretty on par for their party.
vehicles that do a lot of stop and go very locally. shit put solar panels on the roofs.
People would have hated it, but if they partnered with Google years ago, they could have gotten street view hooked up to the USPS trucks and got updating street views and maps fairly regularly, while outsourcing some of the costs to them, probably 10 years to late though.
Now thats going too far. Think about the poor shareholders of energy stocks.
Ah yes, DeJoy is suddenly the defender of all things right with USPS because they held a sham "grilling" in the House. Please, give me a break.
He's just another CEO tbh, but the only shred of credit I'm willing to give him is that he's not a profit ghoul by total choice, that would be the bill passed in 1970 in retaliation for the largest wildcat strike in US history. Nixon put the USPS into billions of debt.
He's a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump's agenda of destroying USPS. His leadership have caused medicine deliveries to fail, food packages to expire, and put mail-in voting at risk. I won't let this congressional performance and the media's complicity in it white wash his record.
https://www.citizen.org/article/guaranteed-delivery-dejoys-post-office-corruption/
So Trump appoints a postmaster general who fucks up mail in ballots in 2020, and for the next 3 years Biden has to live with him because "the post office is an independent entity".
Cut to 2024, and Trump thinks he can just fire the guy that Biden appointed? No, we will have 3 years of Trump trying and failing to replace the guy and his electrification plan.
The platform is drivetrain agnostic anyway, as the ICE engines wear out the chassis will accept the BEV drivetrain.
I'm excited for when my post man gets one.
So now we'll see that the president could have fired DeJoy all along.
I still think of the current LLVs as the "new" postal vehicles despite the newest of them having been built in 1994. When I was a kid they drove the cute little Jeeps.
Little boys want to have every vehicle go vroom vroom.
Do they have to make the mail trucks look so ... dumb? I'm all for shifting to electric but those look ridiculous.
They may look odd but the drivers love them miles above the current vehicles and they were built with safety in mind first. So yes, they look like that on purpose
I can see how that deep windshield would help navigate tight spots / ensure you can see pets and children, low retaining walls, curbs, etc. These trucks mostly need to navigate surface streets and unfamiliar residential which can have tight spaces like long and narrow gravel driveways / access roads.
Makes total sense to me. Hope they have backup cameras too
Well that just sealed the fate of our Postal Service. These fucks are going to use this as an excuse to either completely dismantle or privatize it.
Edit: I'm not saying we shouldn't switch. I'm stating that they will use this as going against dear leader's orders. Should've been clearer.