The US Postal Service debuted its first EV charging stations in Atlanta, Georgia, at the moment, the primary of many anticipated to be deployed at “tons of” of recent sorting and supply facilities this 12 months. It’s a key step within the Postal Service’s plan to place collectively one of many nation’s greatest EV fleets, made up of greater than 66,000 supply autos.
“The work USPS is doing to affect these autos is making EVs commonplace on each highway and road in our nation,” John Podesta, senior advisor to the president for clear power innovation and implementation, stated in a press launch.
“The work USPS is doing to affect these autos is making EVs commonplace on each highway and road in our nation.”
USPS is engaged on changing round 400 websites into sorting and supply facilities that may turn out to be “hubs to deploy EVs alongside native provider routes.” The facilities will serve bigger geographic areas than the old-school postal workplaces they exchange. Three completely different firms — Siemens, Rexel / ChargePoint, and Blink — will manufacture the Postal Service’s first 14,000 EV chargers.
USPS additionally confirmed off its first batch of Ford E-Transit battery-electric autos on the occasion at the moment. Final 12 months, USPS agreed to buy 9,250 of the autos from Ford. It additionally plans to purchase one other 11,750 business off-the-shelf (COTS) autos from different producers.
By 2028, USPS says it’ll deploy one other 45,000 battery-electric “Subsequent Era Supply Automobiles” (NGDVs) made by the corporate Oshkosh. Altogether, it’ll add as much as a 66,000 electrical car fleet.
Most of the Postal Service’s 217,000 vans are greater than three a long time outdated, so the fleet is in sore want of an improve. USPS says it’s nonetheless exploring “the feasibility of reaching 100-percent electrification” as a part of a $40 billion technique to replace its operations.
