The Postal Service has ordered 9250 Ford E-Transit cars. The purchase is part of a plan to electrify the area announced in December. The USPS also puts 14,000 charging stations in post offices and other places. Many people are upset about how many mail vans the Postal Service has. Well-known Grumman LLV mail trucks of today are old, rickety, and waste a lot of gas. In 2015, the complicated and time-consuming process of getting designs and prices for a new generation of delivery vehicles started. The final winner, Oshkosh’s Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV), has been criticized not because of its strange design but because the gas-powered NGDV uses almost as much fuel as the old Grummans. When the EPA asked the USPS to change its decision, the USPS told the EPA to go pound sand. The Postal Service said in December that it would add about 66,000 electric vehicles to its fleet, possibly to try to stop some of the complaints. We know more about this EV business since it was announced that the Ford E-Transit van would be changed to deliver mail. The E-Transit is equipped with an electric motor that produces 266 horsepower, has rear-wheel drive, and has a range of 126 miles. The Postal Service bought the Fords. They are made in Kansas City, Missouri. The date for their deployment is set for December. So that these vans can be charged, the USPS has also bought 14,000 charging stations from three unnamed suppliers that will be put in different places. All of this, though, means that the Postal Service is still working on vehicles that run on gas. The USPS has said it will buy 9250 trucks with gas engines from Stellantis. Even though the cars weren’t named, they were likely Ram ProMaster vans. The Chargers and Challengers could also have Hellcat engines. This would not be okay with the EPA, but it would speed up mail delivery.
