Company behind USPS's all-electric 'Duck' trucks says it is prepared to shift to gas

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Company behind USPS's all-electric 'Duck' mail trucks says it is prepared to shift to gas

'We'll do what they want us to do.'

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Company behind USPS's all-electric 'Duck' trucks says it is prepared to shift to gas​

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by WKRC

Mon, January 13th 2025 at 6:28 AM

The U.S. Postal Service's next-generation delivery vehicle is displayed at the Kokomo Sorting and Delivery Center in Kokomo, Ind., Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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  USPSOshkosh CorpElectric trucksGas-powered vehiclesDonald TrumpInflation Reduction ActPostmaster GeneralEV contracts
  

UNDATED (WKRC) - The company behind the United States Postal Service's all-electric "Duck" mail trucks said it is prepared to shift to gas-powered vehicles.

According to Bloomberg, Oshkosh Corp. has confirmed that it will provide USPS with gas-powered trucks if the agency decides to cut back on orders of its electric vehicles under Donald Trump, who will take office on January 20. The outlet reported that President-elect Trump has been a critic of the funding that Oshkosh Corp. has benefited from.

The company's chief executive officer, John Pfeifer, confirmed during an interview at CES in Las Vegas that the company is prepared to provide the agency with gas-powered vehicles if necessary, per Bloomberg.

“We’ll do what they want us to do — supplying either gas or electric,” Pfeifer said, according to the outlet. “A new Congress could come in and repeal, I guess, part of the IRA that hasn’t been spent.”

According to Bloomberg, the Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed by President Joe Biden in 2022, provided $3 billion for the U.S. Postal Service's ten-year transition to an electric fleet. The agency said it plans to add more than 100,000 mail trucks through 2028, with 62% of those vehicles being electric-powered.

When speaking to Bloomberg last month, however, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he hadn't heard from the incoming administration about its plans regarding electric vehicles. Sources speaking to Reuters said Trump's team is currently looking into whether it can get out of USPS contracts with both the Ford Motor Company and Oshkosh, per the outlet.

Pfeifer did not mention whether or not he had been contacted by USPS or the incoming administration regarding a possible shift away from EVs, Bloomberg reported.

Citing Citi analyst Kyle Menges, the outlet reported that if the EV component of Oshkosh's contract with USPS were to be reduced to zero, it would possibly mean a 50 cent to 60 cent per share hit to the company's 2026 and 2027 earnings per share.

 

[Strapped]

How many miles do they get on a charge

 

[diggy]

They ain't trying to lose money, keep that contract intact by any means necessary.

 

[10bandz]

Oshkosh B'Gosh ass company

 

[CopiousX]

I absolutely hate the fact that these politicians can make decisions that they won't be alive to see the results of. Think of how most of our govt problems are the result of Reagan in the 80s gutting the federal govt, but he and his 80s moguls are long gone.


California is literally on fire , and Miami may go under water due to hurricanes and sea rise. And these people will prioritize their profits at the cost of the hundreds of millions of young people that gotta live with their backwards climate policies in 2044. Releasing methane into the air is worse than burning gasoline .It's mad frustrating.




As someone under 40 I can't help but feeling that the older gens just took a piss on the planet. I know I'm rambling now, but i'm tired of every year being the hottest, the wettest, the driest in the history of the world.

 

[ORDER_66]

These things should be hybrids...

 

[T-K-G]

They ain't trying to lose money, keep that contract intact by any means necessary.

The play is to let Tesla get that contract and be a staple

They're just tryna figure out anyway to get rid of these competitors.

 

[IIVI]

I absolutely hate the fact that these politicians can make decisions that they won't be alive to see the results of. Think of how most of our govt problems are the result of Reagan in the 80s gutting the federal govt, but he and his 80s moguls are long gone.


California is literally on fire , and Miami may go under water due to hurricanes and sea rise. And these people will prioritize their profits at the cost of the hundreds of millions of young people that gotta live with their backwards climate policies in 2044. It's mad frustrating.




As someone under 40 I can't help but feeling that the older gens just took a piss on the planet. I know I'm rambling now, but i'm tired of every year being the hottest, the wettest, the driest in the history of the world.

Worst part is it’s only a few thousands of selfish as fukk people in history to impact over a HUNDRED BILLION people in history.

Like right now there are only a handful of people (who aren’t even scientists) making planetary harmful decisions for everyone and other people’s kids.

I guess however in some ways it’s not only a few thousand because here in America nearly a couple hundred million people voted for them to do it.

 

[diggy]

The play is to let Tesla get that contract and be a staple

Mailman pullin up in a model x with the back doors up stuntin

 

[Oatmeal]

The play is to let Tesla get that contract and be a staple

They're just tryna figure out anyway to get rid of these competitors.

This is EXACTLY the plan, bet they try to get majority of federal vehicles to be made by Tesla

 

[T-K-G]

This is EXACTLY the plan, bet they try to get majority of federal vehicles to be made by Tesla

I mean that's what most of the donations are about iirc, they pay to get you in office you make sure business for them is good and they have guaranteed profits out of the situation.

 

[Oatmeal]

I mean that's what most of the donations are about iirc, they pay to get you in office you make sure business for them is good and they have guaranteed profits out of the situation

Musk ALREADY made his wealth off government subsidizing and now it will continue, folks that praise him don't even acknowledge that whole pathway he took

 

[At30wecashout]

And America votes to go backward. I know times are hard for a lot of folks, but watch the switchup in a few weeks time when people start claiming things are good again...for cultural reasons. I saw Inconvenient Truth in 06. Almost 20 years later, people who won't be alive to see the worst of things are still being inconvenient mothafukkas.