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.
Is Trump planning to dismantle the USPS like he tried last term?
I'm not sure, did he campaign as republican?
DeJoy actually defending the EV purchase and not just taking whatever Trump demands? What?
Wait. Biden was president for four years and DeJoy is still running the Postal Service? What in the actual fuck?
Iirc he replaced the board that had the power to appoint a new post master but then I guess just never pressured them to actually do it, or they ignored him.
They already put their order in, largely because the hybrid ones kinda suck (even though Dejoy pushed them hard). Now he's trying to save face given Biden effectively forced his hand.
Don't ya just love it when someone does the right thing, but only because they were
coercedforced to do it?
Nah DeJoy just wants to make sure that when he succeeds in privatizing and selling the USPS off to his buddies that he can sweeten the pot with a brand new fleet.
For delivery vehicles EV makes a ton of sense. They never travel at the high speeds where EVs are least efficient, they have a consistent place to slow charge every night to prolong battery life, the brakes don't wear despite heavy start/stop service thanks to regen, and by being a single fleet owner the availability of maintenance isn't a large concern.
Why do US mail trucks look like that? No other vehicle in the world looks like that. In Europe mail trucks are just regular vans.
That’s what a truck looks like when it maximizes safety and comfort above all else
It's quite intentional: https://youtu.be/Rt6z4QvtQL8
I will be honest, I did not expect this response from DeJoy.