Electrifying just 10% of the U.S. fleet, as the postmaster, DeJoy, has suggested, is really shortsighted and not acceptable.

Gina Coplon-Newfield, director of the Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation For All campaign, commenting on the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to only electrify about 10 percent of the USPS delivery trucks. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has said the mail company would need as much as an additional $4 billion to make the USPS fleet 90 percent electric. (NPR — March 10, 2021)