USPS’ $3B Push for EV Fleet Stalls as Sen. Ernst Slams Costly Delays

The U.S. Postal Service’s push for an all-electric mail fleet is falling dramatically short of expectations, despite more than $3 billion in taxpayer funding already spent, according to a letter sent to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and obtained by the New York Post.

The Biden administration championed the program as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, steering $3 billion toward a transition to battery-powered delivery trucks. Nearly all of that money went to Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh Defense, tasked with building the new green Next Generation Delivery Vehicles, or NGDV.

But progress has been sluggish. Ernst, who chairs the Senate’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caucus, said in July that after $2.6 billion paid to Oshkosh, the Postal Service had produced only 250 trucks.