Biden’s Green Dream of EV Postal Truck Fleet Is a $10 Billion Failure
When kicking off the boondoggle “Green New Deal” project, one Biden climate advisor described it as “the Biden climate strategy on wheels.” True, that.
Using the 2022 “Inflation Reduction Act” as cover for the progressive “Green New Deal,” the Biden administration funded a plan that aimed to eliminate gasoline-powered delivery trucks and deploy tens of thousands of battery-electric mail trucks by 2028.
And, like so many initiatives linked to Biden, it ended in complete failure. Republicans in Congress are working to claw-back the remaining monies.
The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 35,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
As of this month, the project is well behind schedule despite taxpayers forking over $1.7 billion — prompting Capitol Hill Republicans to try to rescind the remaining nearly $1.3 billion earmarked from the IRA.
“Biden’s multi-billion-dollar EV fleet for the USPS is lost in the mail and more than $1 billion is postmarked to order more,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told The Post.
“I am working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people. The rescissions package is a great start, but Congress must keep its foot on the pedal and make DOGE a lifestyle by stamping out waste like this on a regular basis.”
When kicking off the project that was supposed to generate a fleet of over 60,000 electric delivery trucks, one Biden climate advisor described it as “the Biden climate strategy on wheels.”
The post office said it is spending nearly $10 billion to electrify its aging fleet, including installing modern charging infrastructure at hundreds of postal facilities nationwide and purchasing at least 66,000 electric delivery trucks in the next five years. The spending includes $3 billion in funding approved under a landmark climate and health policy adopted by Congress last year.
The White House hailed the announcement as a way to sustain reliable mail service to Americans while modernizing the fleet, reducing operating costs and clearing the air in neighborhoods across the country.
“This is the Biden climate strategy on wheels and the U.S. Postal Service delivering for the American people,” said White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi.
Truer words were never spoken by a Biden official.
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The “mail route to nowhere.”
The Biden Admin was one big Cluster F&&&. The excrement in his pants is worth more than what the American people received.
Money spent here money spent there and the only ones who got rich were Democrat cronies.
Can they also cancel the $6.5 billion handout to Rivian that was given on Biden’s way out
Biden’s green dream EV postal truck fleet is a failure as is:
withdrawal from Afghanistan
border security
handling Russian Ukraine war
build back better plan
inflation and economic policies
& everything else his filthy hands touched
I was always in awe of how Biden called his stupid program “Building Back Better.” As if Trump had destroyed a shitload of stuff and Joe was there to reconstruct it. When in reality, Trump had built a shitload of stuff and Joe spent his first week destroying more than half of it, and replacing it with horror.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” is Trump’s F-You right back atcha Dementia Joe.
The post headline could have just said “Biden Is A Failure” and it would not have been wrong.
Was it really a failure, though? It seems very likely that billions of taxpayer dollars were sluiced into the pockets of cronies and left-wing allies, which is always the real goal of these projects.
If the USPS were to switch to an all-electric fleet of mail trucks what would be the change in the neighborhood air quality? Specifically the reduction in SO2, NOX, O3, particulates and other pollutants from internal combustion engines. No CO2 is not a pollutant. We humans breath out CO2. Plants love CO2. Anyone ever ask or answer this question? I can’t find any reports that treat this specific question, only very general treatments for the effects of EV on pollution. Bear in mind something has to generate the energy mail trucks consume. EV mail trucks would move the combustion point from the truck to power stations, which mainly combust fossil fuels.
Is it more efficient to move energy electrically, or chemically? This question comes down to pipes versus wires. With wires the energy transmits as an electromagnetic field between the wires, not in the wires. A fact even many electrical engineers and physicists forget or never learned. See Poynting’s theorem. Transmitting energy by fluid flow, say as in oil in a pipeline, makes for very high efficiency. Take the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. When operating at full capacity it transmits energy chemically which we can turn into a wattage. To avoid big numbers, the energy transmitted yearly is 19 times all the electrical energy consumed in New York City in one year. That’s from a mere four-foot-diameter pipe. Here we have the Achilles Heel of the whole green-energy paradigm: transmission. The US has a vast network of pipes transmitting energy. We could never convert to all electric without ruining the economy. The Germans are learning this the hard way. The German people need to wise up and vote out their leaders or hang them.
A more local example– I can put about 450 miles in my diesel Ram, and get a coffee to-go, in about 5 minutes. And you can’t put 20 miles of electric in a can and carry it back to where you ran out of gas…
Don’t forget that the electricity to charge these electric vehicles has to be generated somehow and somewhere.
Where are the power plants going to be and what’s going to fuel them? There’s more to supporting infrastructure than just plopping a charging station in a post office parking lot and waving a magic wand. Transmitting electric power via wire results in losses that manifest as heat due to internal resistance in the wires. That heat transfers to the environment.
And the power plants, pipelines carrying fuel to them, transmission lines connecting to the charging stations, and the charging stations themselves, in addition to the costs associated with initial acquisition and installation, are all going to need maintenance and periodic replacement.
How much would all that supporting infrastructure cost, and who’s going to be on the hook for that, except for taxpayers?
Is there anything the Biden admin did that was positive? We know it was an enormous clusterfuck but can anyone name one thing good that was done for the American people?
Foisted Kamala on the Dem party as the 2024 nominee so Trump could win. I am serious, and I think it was done intentionally. The Dems were going to have some sort of process to replace Biden and probably would have chosen a winning candidate, but Biden hated the Dems so much he said to them “you wanted me to resign and let Kamala be president, now I’ll make you nominate her and let her win the old fashioned way” knowing that it was likely to elect Trump.
Biden and Trump, two old warriors who at least respect each other. And despise Kamala as a pathetic DEI joke who rode Brown’s Willie into political prominence.
I cannot think of anything
Biden green new deal is trillion dollar fraud. But if mail trucks are running the same route every day, it almost starts to make sense for application of this kind of technology.
Or we could just go all-electric, and deliver the mail… electronically.
Nope, that’s just crazy talk.
(If you really want to see crazy talk, check out the early 1980s USPS answer to email: their “E-COM” system, in which e-mail would be transmitted to regional post offices, printed, stuffed into envelopes, and delivered by truck.)
That sounds like a variation on a system that Western Union offered with the US Postal Service. Does anybody here remember the mail gram? I sent several of them using the teletype machine in our office. Yes, I worked in an office and had TWX service. Fax machine machines came in, and the teletype machine was retired.
No, but I learned to program (BASIC, the old name for Python) on a teletype. The tty was in the darkroom of the former photography club at our high school so it was a little room walls and ceiling all painted black. The computer was a PDP-11 that was 20 miles away at the university. When you typed, the characters normally echoed immediately on the paper rather than having to go to the computer and back, which woud mean about a 1/10 second delay.
LOL.
You mean like FedEx’s Zap Mail?
You still don’t use those words around Fred Smith.
To be honest, I had thought that this application of EV’s as postal trucks might be a successful use case. The routes are known and the distance to be covered (at least in my suburban area) is not actually very long. The chief characteristic of the driving is going roughly 10 yards and stopping at a pair of mailboxes and then repeating that roughly 10-yards later. If the maintenance of EV’s really is lower than ICE vehicles in a frequent stop routine it just might make economic sense. I do note that Amazon whose trucks constantly haunt our neighborhood day and night are using quite a few Rivian-built delivery trucks. I used to frequently ask the drivers how they liked them but almost always found they didn’t leave any impression as better or worse than the ICE delivery vehicles. I decided that was a positive vote.
Having said that I am opposed to government dictated EV use, and I personally have no use or desire for one.
It was a slam dunk and they managed to fail at it. Hooray for the government.
Less than 48-hours after Republicans had to move Heaven and Earth to save a measly $9B in ‘recission’ cuts, we find out that Biden wasted at least $10B in yet another Green Energy boondoggle. This is why we’re nearly $40T in debt, adding more than $1T every year.
The cuts are more important for the bad things they refuse to fund than for the money they save. Since some money was saved it was possible to jam it thru the Senate with 50 votes as reconciliation.
Another “green” scam/hustle/grift from the racketeering crime group known as the “Dhimmi-crat Party.”
The next Biden BIG step:
To reduce energy consumption even further, you VILL walk to and pick up your mail at the designated post office
It’s not true that the only thing that worked well in Biden’s Oval Office was the autopen. The Grift worked quite well for those involved.
Every woke city that went with any sort of battery transportation has had nothing but failure. Of course, that would not deter someone like Biden where results doesn’t count, only intent. Imagine the cost of adding charging stations all over the US and then throw in the maintenance, gas operated cars look like gold!
But Biden DID arrange for zillions of charging stations across America. He even paid for them. He actually finished seven.
(1) just put the charging stations at the post offices. (2) and/or use the now standard converters and charge at Tesla Superchargers, which has become the worldwide standard and, by the way, a cash cow for Musk even if he never sells another car, it’s the real value of Tesla.
I came here to say exactly that. Sure it was a failure, but his buddies got rich(er) off it, and isn’t that what’s important”
And the tweakers promptly stole five of the charging cables for the copper.
Replacing those will be about the same boondoggle as wind turbine blades.
In a just world, Joe Biden would never have risen higher than a public defender of last resort in Scranton. The kind of guy whose suits are 20 years out of style and gets admonished by judges for things that even laypeople know.
He is a political genius and gangster and the first and just about the only person ever to get to the Senate before age 30. He rode the racial issue in Delaware, one of the states with cases that consolidated to Brown v. Board of Education in the 1950’s. I guess there was some resentment when that case was largely reversed in the 1972 Milliken decision (that saved me from being bussed into Wilmington for high school, whew!) and Delaware’s a good way into the Senate because we have 2 senators and only one congressman, a much smaller amount of favors and votes he had to line up to win a senate seat.
And he managed to force his way into Obama’s WH, where he did not do as Obama told him, then he managed to push aside Bernie and win the WH for himself by promising to step aside for Kamala, then he didn’t and survived the resulting assassination attempts and served a full presidential term despite being almost senile.
A political genius. I didn’t say he was a good or nice guy, but one hell of an effective politician with world class instincts.
Of course. I don’t even need to read past the headline. Did anyone ever seriously expect any other outcome?
It’s not a failure.
It’s a smashing success at what they were trying to achieve.
And what they were trying to achieve was steal billions of taxpayer money and funnel it into their political donors.
Absolutely NOBODY believed they were going to deliver this in time and within the budget they claimed.
Anyone know whether they’ve clawed back the cash for Kameltoe’s electric school buses?
Like almost everything else Kamala supports, electric school buses are a retarded idea. Not really stop and go driving, very heavy, built especially heavy as a protective cage around children. Obvious use case for a diesel engine. Not an EV.
I’m sorry, this is the one time I have to disagree, if there’s anything an EV is well suited for is this. Postal trucks are specialized. They don’t go anywhere, they just drive around in circles, actually. And if you can run their schedules for their range. Commercial metered electricity should be much cheaper than gasoline.
Amazon is using them in their delivery fleet, how are they actually working out for them? Has anyone even asked Amazon? They’re the only one’s with any experience with them. I know they do burn up.
What is a delivery postal truck other than a giant golf cart anyway? If you can efficiently, and that’s a big “if.” Handled properly, the EV makes a lot of sense. I don’t how many actual miles these things go before they’re scrapped, but I’m guessing it’s pretty low. I understand the few EV postal trucks that are out there are pretty nice and work very well. But remember, these are not “converted” trucks, but custom made EV Postal Trucks. They should be nice. They have a lot of drivers, so they really should be well thought out. I wouldn’t want to drive one of those for a living, I’m just glad someone does.
Lots of stop and go. Obvious use case for an EV. Amazon uses them, and the trucks are specially optimized for Amazon delivery use, not just converted vans or box trucks. If they are OK for Amazon, they should be great for postal delivery that is light and stops at every single house, rather than longer distances between delivery points and heavier loads. (See all the videos complaining about shorter EV range when carrying heavy loads.)
To be honest, a plug-in hybrid postal vehicle would be a very good idea. A lot of city delivery is all stop-and-go, which is where hybrids thrive, and a simple, straightforward charging system instead of bazillion dollar high complexity charge-in-an-hour chargers would make sense. BUT trying to get US industry into developing a simple, straightforward, plug-and-play vehicle instead of an over-complicated, all digital, new model every year disaster…. Good luck.
Our mailman (he’s a man so I can still use that old word) told me he drove the electric ones and they were pretty nice, something about being a better design in the back. And it’s an obvious application for EV’s, lots of stop and go so regenerative braking is a big win.
If they can’t make this work, there is no use case for an EV. Maybe they just did it as a big incompetent boondoggle, such a shame. It should work.
In concept, if EVs are good for anthing, it should be for short-run delivery. But there’s virtually nothing ‘Rat Party Donks can’t f’ up.