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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/21\/23272161\/us-postal-service-electric-vehicle-40-percent-goal-initial-order<\/a>
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The United States Postal Service, or USPS, has another new proposal that raises the percentage of electric vehicles it plans on purchasing to modernize its fleet (via Electrek<\/em><\/a>). In a press release<\/a> on Wednesday, the service said that \u201cat least 50 percent\u201d of its initial order for 50,000 next-generation mail trucks will be battery electric vehicles. That\u2019s quite a change from what USPS leadership announced in February<\/a> when they said that only 10 percent of the service\u2019s new fleet would be electric.<\/p>\n

That number did get bumped up in March<\/a> when the service announced it was planning an initial order including 10,019 electric trucks, just a few weeks after telling President Biden that it would continue with its plans<\/a> to obtain mostly gas-powered vehicles. <\/p>\n

The environmental impact of the USPS\u2019s proposed fleet has been closely scrutinized. In April, 16 states banded together with environmental activists to sue the service in hopes of blocking its plans to make most of the fleet gas-powered. Earlier in the year, there was an outcry<\/a> after the Environmental Protection Agency said that the new vehicles, made by Oshkosh, would get a mere 8.6 miles per gallon with the air conditioning on.<\/p>\n

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