--- title: U.S. Postal Service Delivery Trucks Are Going Electric description: The agency will purchase 66,000 electric vehicles for its mail delivery fleet by 2028 in a push to lower its climate impact. canonical: https://time.com/6242616/us-postal-service-trucks-going-electric/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-12-20T17:16:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T15:12:25.380Z article:section: Climate og:title: U.S. Postal Service Delivery Trucks Are Going Electric og:description: The agency will purchase 66,000 electric vehicles for its mail delivery fleet by 2028 to lower its climate impact og:url: https://time.com/6242616/us-postal-service-trucks-going-electric/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e8fa3a49cd38ac5/698a38fcb3fce3ed010ca08a/us-postal-service-trucks-go-electric-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: U.S. Postal Service Trucks og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: U.S. Postal Service Delivery Trucks Are Going Electric twitter:description: The agency will purchase 66,000 electric vehicles for its mail delivery fleet by 2028 to lower its climate impact twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e8fa3a49cd38ac5/698a38fcb3fce3ed010ca08a/us-postal-service-trucks-go-electric-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # U.S. Postal Service Delivery Trucks Are Going Electric by [Ari Natter/Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Ari Natter/Bloomberg Contributor Dec 20, 2022 5:16 PM UTC  A general view of United States Postal Service trucks on April 12, 2020 in Farmingdale, New York. A general view of United States Postal Service trucks on April 12, 2020 in Farmingdale, New York.Bruce Bennett—Getty Images by [Ari Natter/Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Ari Natter/Bloomberg Contributor Dec 20, 2022 5:16 PM UTC The US Postal Service will spend nearly $10 billion for new [electric vehicles](https://time.com/6202811/inflation-reduction-act-electric-vehicles/) in a push to make its mail delivery fleet more environmentally friendly. The agency will purchase 66,000 electric vehicles for its mail delivery fleet by 2028, according to a [statement](https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/1220-usps-intends-to-deploy-over-66000-electric-vehicles-by-2028.htm) Tuesday. That represents about a quarter of USPS’s [current](https://facts.usps.com/postal-service-has-more-than-200000-vehicles/#:~:text=The%20Postal%20Service%20has%20more,civilian%20fleets%20in%20the%20world.) level, and the postal service will continue exploring the potential to make its entire fleet electric. The agency will buy 60,000 vehicles from defense contractor Oshkosh Corp., of which some 45,000 will be electric, according to the Washington _Post_, which earlier reported on the development. Shares of Oshkosh rose as much as 2.7% Tuesday, the most in five weeks. The Postal Service also plans to buy 21,000 commercial electric vehicles from other automakers, according to the statement. The development marks a dramatic turnaround from the Postal Service’s prior announcement for plans to replace its fleet of aging red-white-and blue delivery vans with mostly gasoline powered models. That was a blow to President Joe Biden’s [climate](https://time.com/section/climate/) plans and a bid by electric vehicle maker Workhorse Group Inc. About $3 billion of the planned investment will come from [Inflation Reduction Act](https://time.com/6207015/clean-climate-technology-inflation-reduction-act/) funds. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6242616/us-postal-service-trucks-going-electric/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6242616/us-postal-service-trucks-going-electric/"},"headline":"U.S. Postal Service Delivery Trucks Are Going Electric","datePublished":"2022-12-20T17:16:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T15:12:25.380Z","description":"The agency will purchase 66,000 electric vehicles for its mail delivery fleet by 2028 in a push to lower its climate impact.","url":"https://time.com/6242616/us-postal-service-trucks-going-electric/","keywords":["Transportation","climate change","wire","healthscienceclimate","bloomberg wire"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e8fa3a49cd38ac5/698a38fcb3fce3ed010ca08a/us-postal-service-trucks-go-electric-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ari Natter/Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Climate","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e8fa3a49cd38ac5/698a38fcb3fce3ed010ca08a/us-postal-service-trucks-go-electric-climate-change.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. Postal Service Trucks","caption":"U.S. Postal Service trucks go electric","creditText":"Bruce Bennett—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/climate/","name":"Climate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/transportation/","name":"Transportation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6242616/us-postal-service-trucks-going-electric/","name":"U.S. Postal Service Delivery Trucks Are Going Electric"}}]}] ```