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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by SllX on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:38PM (#30447562)
Not that weird when you consider that purchasing EVs also means purchasing and deploying the infrastructure to charge them. That’s not a small operation for a service area that includes every single address in the United States of America.
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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by TheHypnotist on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:43PM (#30447624)
My area's utility has the funding to place them all over the state. This would have been a good opportunity to cooperate and pilot the system here.
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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by SllX on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:00PM (#30447834)
Fair, but would you prefer that money be spent assisting USPS with a pilot program which won’t necessarily be useful nationwide or assisting people and businesses who live in your area to switch to electric cars themselves?
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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by TheHypnotist on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:22AM (#30455009)
Both because the program is so large it could accomplish this. Truthfully, the feds should fund this.
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Re:USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EP... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:43PM (#30449961)
Whichever offsets the most fossil fuel usage.
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