From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Another BIDEN-Era Failure: Electric Postal Service Trucks - DOGE Lawmakers Look To Defund BIDEN's Anemic-Paced $3B EV Postal Truck
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:36:47 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Why EV Giant With A Contract For 100k USPS Trucks Has Suddenly Offered To
Convert Them To Gas - MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-ev-giant-with-a-contract-for-100 - K-
usps-trucks-has-suddenly-offered-to-convert-them-to-gas/ar-AA1xdybk
Oshkosh has received its first order from USPS for 50,000 electric trucks,
valued at $2.98 billion. But John Pfeifer, CEO of Oshkosh, said the company
would be prepared to make the switch back to ...
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Another BIDEN-Era Failure: Electric Postal Service Trucks
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/another-BIDEN-era-
failure-electric-postal-service-trucks/
Dec 26, 2024 - The BIDEN-Harris Inflation Reduction Act allocated $3 billion
to help the U.S. Postal Service purchase electric trucks and build charging
infrastructure. This funding followed a period in which the Postal Service,
after conducting its own analysis, initially rejected electric vehicles (EVs)
due to concerns over cost and practicality. Despite the $3 billion
investment, only 93 electric trucks ...
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10 Years And $3 Billion For A New Mail Truck? - Reason.Com
https://reason.com/2024/09/13/10-years-and-3-billion-for-a-new-mail-truck/
Sep 13, 2024 - The non-electric Mercedes-Benz Sprinter had an MSRP of $42,430
in 2021, per Kelley Blue Book, when the USPS-Oshkosh deal was made. That's
$17,000 less than the NGDV per-unit price of $59,600.
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BIDEN's Spending Package Would Give USPS $6 Billion To Replace ...
https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/BIDENs-spending-package-
would-give-usps-6-billion-to-replace-dangerous-mail-trucks-with-electric-
vehicles
BIDEN's spending package would give USPS $6 billion to replace dangerous mail
trucks with electric vehicles ... The $1.75 trillion legislation unveiled in
the House on Thursday includes roughly $6 billion for the mail agency to buy
trucks from Oshkosh Defense, which won a procurement battle in February to
produce the fleet, dubbed "Next ...
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DOGE Lawmakers Look To Defund BIDEN's Anemic-Paced $3B EV Postal Truck ...
https://cloud.house.gov/posts/doge-lawmakers-look-to-defund-BIDENs-anemic-
paced-3b-ev-postal-truck-boondoggle
1 day ago - The Postal Service was to receive an initial order of 50,000 EV
delivery trucks from defense contractor Oshkosh within the next three years,
but only 93 had ... "BIDEN's EV postal fleet is lost in the mail," said
Ernst, chief sponsor of the legislation. ... Ernst also cited the USPS EV
project in her Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act that ...
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The Postal Service's Electric Mail Trucks Are Way Behind Schedule
https://postaltimes.com/the-postal-services-electric-mail-trucks-are-way-
behind-schedule/
Dec 12, 2024 - The Postal Service is slated to purchase 60,000 "Next
Generation Delivery Vehicles," or NGDVs - mostly electric - from defense
contractor Oshkosh, which has a long history of producing military and heavy
industrial vehicles, but not postal trucks. Congress provided $3 billion for
the nearly $10 billion project in the 2022 Inflation ...
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USPS Places $3 Billion Order For 50,000 New Delivery Vehicles Including ...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/usps-places-3-billion-50000-delivery-
vehicles-electric
The $2.98 billion purchase calls for 50,000 of the Oshkosh Defense-built
trucks, which includes 10,019 battery electric models (BEV), twice as many of
the zero emissions vehicles as originally ...
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US Postal Service Announces $9.6B Investment In New Electric Vehicle ...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-postal-service-announces-9b-
investment-new-electric-vehicle-fleet-operating-loss
The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday announced a $9.6 billion investment in
66,000 new electric mail trucks as part of a BIDEN administration EV-push.
... "The USPS plan leverages the $3 billion ...