The US Postal Service said Tuesday that it plans to buy at least 66,000 electric delivery vehicles as part of a wider acquisition program between now and 2028 to reduce carbon emissions.
The mail service will spend a projected $9.6 billion — with a third of that money coming from President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — to purchase a total of 106,000 delivery vehicles to replace its older, carbon-emitting vehicles between now and 2028. Around 60,000 of these vehicles will be “next-generation delivery vehicles” while the remaining 46,000 are “commercial off-the-shelf” vehicles. Of these new vehicles, 45,000 next-generation delivery vehicles and 21,000 of the commercial off-the-shelf vehicles will be electric.Â
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