Opinion: Getting greener mail trucks would help combat climate change — and all of the Postal Service’s competitors are doing it.
Beyond these business advantages, zero-emission vehicles carry other big benefits for the public. The Postal Service recentlyby estimating the climate harms that going all-electric would avoid. Its findings were telling: A fully electric fleet would prevent millions or tens of millions of dollars’ worth of climate-change-related harms to property and human health each year of the trucks’ lifetimes .
The government’s purchasing power also routinely inspires companies to devise better and cheaper ways to do business. Investments in aerospace technologies, for instance, have spilled over into consumer innovations, giving us GPS technologies and faster, more fuel-efficient passenger jets. Bulk demand for cleaner trucks could inspire similar innovations as companies clamor for government contracts, meaning we all could get cheaper and better green products like car batteries.
And that returns us to the Build Back Better legislation. The version passed by the House sets aside $7 billion to help the Postal Service buy electric mail trucks — enough to electrify the vast majority of its fleet by the end of the decade.100 percent zero-emission federal vehicle acquisitions by 2035
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