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.

Summary

USPS plans to continue its EV transition despite resistance from Trump’s team.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy affirmed the $3 billion electrification effort, funded by last year’s climate bill, as “business sense,” with 75% of the fleet targeted for electrification by 2026.

Trump’s team aims to cancel contracts, favoring gas-powered vehicles.

USPS has ordered 66,000 EVs by 2028, including vehicles from Oshkosh and Ford.

While critics argue against high costs, USPS maintains that legislative action would be required to halt its EV plans, which aim to modernize its 217,000-vehicle fleet.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    213·
    16 hours ago

    Ah yes, DeJoy is suddenly the defender of all things right with USPS because they held a sham “grilling” in the House. Please, give me a break.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      9·
      16 hours ago

      He’s just another CEO tbh, but the only shred of credit I’m willing to give him is that he’s not a profit ghoul by total choice, that would be the bill passed in 1970 in retaliation for the largest wildcat strike in US history. Nixon put the USPS into billions of debt.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
        18·
        15 hours ago

        He’s a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump’s agenda of destroying USPS. His leadership have caused medicine deliveries to fail, food packages to expire, and put mail-in voting at risk. I won’t let this congressional performance and the media’s complicity in it white wash his record.

        https://www.citizen.org/article/guaranteed-delivery-dejoys-post-office-corruption/

        • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
          6·
          15 hours ago

          He’s a self serving piece of shit that made fat donations to republicans and got installed with no prior experience to serve Trump’s agenda

          Like I said, just another CEO. I’m glad you added some context for this, because he’s definitely a huge piece of shit tearing apart the fabric of a functional government.