This announcement is a step in the right direction, but 'we won't settle' until the postal fleet is made up of '100% union-built electric vehicles,' said katherinejulia, director of SierraClub's Clean Transportation for All campaign.
to be electric as recently as February. But when USPS ordered its first batch of 50,000 trucks from Oshkosh in March, roughly 10,000, or 20%, were electric.
Congress in March also passed a $107 billion agency overhaul, freeing up money that postal leaders had long sought for capital improvements. Lawmakers from both parties specifically pointed to the agency's need for new trucks—its fleet now is 30 years old, and has neither air bags nor air conditioning—to keep up with private sector [electric vehicle] investments in approving the legislation.
While the Postal Service's move to decrease the percentage of new gas-powered vehicles it is buying from 90% to 60% is a step in the right direction, it"should only be the beginning," said Martinez."It's well past time we started replacing retiring gas trucks with electric mail trucks made right here with good, union jobs."
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