Enlarge / The USPS’s new mail truck. (credit: United States Postal Service) The US Postal Service is facing lawsuits from 16 states and several environmental groups challenging its decision to buy tens of thousands of gasoline-powered delivery vehicles instead of electric vehicles. As previously reported , the Environmental Protection Agency says the gas-powered trucks being […]
Enlarge / The proposed replacement USPS mail truck got a lot of attention for its odd looks, but the real crime is a pathetic 8. 6 mpg fuel efficiency—barely any improvement on the current vehicles. The United States Post Office’s plan to replace its aging delivery vehicles has been heavily criticized by the Environmental Protection […]
By year’s end, 99 of these electric Transit vans will be delivering packages for DHL Express in California and New York. [credit: Lighting eMotors ] Electrifying commercial fleets of vehicles makes even more sense than trying to persuade individual private citizens to switch to electric vehicles. After all, if you convince your neighbor to buy […]