US Post Office Debuts First Set of EV Charging Stations and Delivery Vehicles

The US Postal Service has debuted the primary set of its deliberate rollout of electrical car charging stations.

The primary stations have been unveiled on the South Atlanta Sorting and Supply Middle, and extra might be put in at a whole lot of latest facilities throughout the nation. The stations will energy the USPS’ EV fleet, which would be the nation’s largest EV fleet, USPS stated.

The electrification of the supply fleet is a part of a $40 billion funding technique to improve and enhance the USPS processing, transportation, and supply networks.

Along with asserting the primary charging stations, USPS additionally unveiled its new battery-powered and domestically manufactured industrial off-the-shelf (COTS) supply autos, which can make up a portion of the group’s electrical fleet of autos. The electrical vehicles will first be deployed in Georgia earlier than increasing to different places throughout the nation all year long.

The postal service is within the midst of its 10-year Delivering for America plan, which incorporates changing roughly 400 websites into sorting and supply facilities. The websites is not going to solely present sooner and extra dependable mail and bundle supply, they will even act as native hubs to deploy EVs alongside service routes.

The EV push was additionally supported by the $3 billion in congressional funding appropriated beneath the Inflation Discount Act. The laws has helped usher in a wave of renewable power initiatives due to its funding incentives and grants.

“The enhancements we have to obtain in sustainability are an integral outgrowth of the broader modernization efforts we’ve undertaken via our 10-year Delivering for America plan,” Postmaster Common Louis DeJoy stated in an announcement. “As we rework our working processes and spend money on new automation, new applied sciences, and upgraded services and autos, we are going to generate vital efficiencies that scale back our prices, slash our carbon footprint, and decrease waste. We’re grateful for the assist of Congress and the Biden Administration via Inflation Discount Act funding, which helped allow the electrification in proof right here right this moment.”

USPS plans to acquire a complete of 21,000 COTS EVs in its plan, including at the very least 45,000 battery-electric subsequent era supply autos by 2028. The overall variety of EVs within the fleet is predicted to achieve 66,000, and USPS stated it should discover making all its supply autos electrical.