Finally, last month, the House Committee for Oversight and Reform voted to allocate $8 billion to USPS. Then, in March, Democrats voted to authorize $6 billion for USPS, with those funds specifically allocated for the purpose of updating the USPS fleet to electric vehicles. At the time, he urged Congress for funding to make the delivery fleet all-electric. In January, President Biden vowed to replace the Postal Service’s fleet of roughly 650,000 vehicles with electric models. An All-Electric USPS Fleet Still May Not Be Out of the Question Negotiations with the Postal Service went far, and Workhorse even won the support of many lawmakers along the way…including now-President Biden. Prior to Oshkosh winning the contract, Workhorse had proposed building an all-electric fleet for USPS. This said, only 10% of the new Oshkosh vehicles will be all-electric the other 90% will continue to run on gas. With Oshkosh working as the manufacturer, the new vehicles will be a mix of internal combustion-powered and battery-electric. It lays out expectations for delivery of between 50,000 and 165,000 of the vehicles over the course of 10 years. The contract that USPS awarded to Oshkosh could be worth more than $6 billion in total. Now, Workhorse is taking the next steps to file a legal challenge the decision. Upon losing the bid to Oshkosh, Workhorse met with USPS to discuss why they lost the bid. However, this left another company, Workhorse Group, spurned after long rounds of negotiations. USPS delivery vans are in desperate need of updating, and earlier in the year, USPS awarded a multi-billion contract to Oshkosh Defense to manufacture the next generation of delivery vehicles. The saga of the Postal Service upgrading its fleet of outdated delivery vans continues.

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