January 24, 2022 – Companies like Amazon, Best Buy, DHL, Hertz, Schindler Elevator, T-Mobile, and UNFI — were asked what vehicles they wanted manufacturers to build. Those companies plan to buy more than 330,000 electric vehicles, including sedans, SUVs, pickups, and box trucks.
You might think that if electric delivery vehicles are so much in demand by fleet operators, the US Postal Service would be first in line to get them. Politicians have decreed that the next generation of USPS delivery vehicles will be manufactured by a major defense contractor and that 90% of them will be powered by good old fashioned gasoline engines.
One can only wonder why General Motors, Ford, Stellantis, or any of the other legacy automakers with big plans to manufacture electric delivery vehicles weren’t involved in the bidding process for what will be the largest single order for motor vehicles in history. Does anyone else think it’s odd that Tesla is nowhere in this conversation?
