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Biden’s zero-emission government fleet starts with USPS

The Postal Service is set to roll out 34,000 electric mail trucks in the coming years, and it’s transforming its operations to make them go

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November 25, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST
A mail-sorting line at a U.S. Postal Service facility in Atlanta. (Dustin Chambers for The Washington Post)
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ATLANTA — The grandest experiment of the government’s sprint to electrify its vehicle fleet is happening here, a 1 million-square-foot warehouse leased by the U.S. Postal Service in the outer reaches of Atlanta.

As the White House pushes public agencies and big business to slash greenhouse gas emissions, it is leaning on the Postal Service to step up the pace to meet President Biden’s directive to ensure all new government-owned vehicles are EVs by 2035. And, after a hard-won $3 billion infusion from Congress to jump-start its transition, the first of the agency’s 34,000 zero-emission mail trucks will begin rolling out next year.

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