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.
  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    DeJoy actually defending the EV purchase and not just taking whatever Trump demands? What?

    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
      20·
      10 days ago

      Wait. Biden was president for four years and DeJoy is still running the Postal Service? What in the actual fuck?

      • underisk
        9·
        10 days ago

        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.

    • Addv4@lemmy.world
      121·
      10 days ago

      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.

      • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
        10·
        10 days ago

        Don’t ya just love it when someone does the right thing, but only because they were coerced forced to do it?

    • Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyzEnglish
      7·
      10 days ago

      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.

      • COASTER1921
        4·
        9 days ago

        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.

  • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago

    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.