{"id":187655,"date":"2022-07-20T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?p=246403"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:11:01","slug":"us-postal-service-more-than-doubles-ev-order-yet-again-but-its-still-ordering-mostly-gas-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-postal-service-more-than-doubles-ev-order-yet-again-but-its-still-ordering-mostly-gas-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service more than doubles EV order yet again \u2013 but it\u2019s still ordering mostly gas vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.evearly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/us-postal-service-more-than-doubles-ev-order-yet-again-but-its-still-ordering-mostly-gas-vehicles.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe US Postal Service has clearly been reading Electrek and our disdain for its previous decisions not to implement more EVs across its upcoming fleet of mail delivery vehicles. In a recent pivot towards sustainability, the USPS has more than doubled its number of electric vehicles for a second time. However, even after its intention to buy \u201cas many BEVs as are commercially available,\u201d the new EVs will still only make up 40% of the initial order. Better yes, but still not good enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/07\/20\/us-postal-service-ev\/\" target='bwindow' rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/us-postal-service-more-than-doubles-ev-order-yet-again-but-its-still-ordering-mostly-gas-vehicles\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254915,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187655\/revisions\/254915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}