Bill Would Grant Postal Service $2 Billion to Electrify 20,000 Delivery Vehicles

Backers of Measure Launch Special Website to Promote Its Passage

"The check is in the mail" could take a whole new meaning if a New York congressman and two electric-vehicle advocates have anything to say about it. A bill introduced last month would direct as much as $2 billion toward converting about 15% of the U.S. Postal Service's highly inefficient fleet of 142,000 local-delivery vehicles to electric drive over a three-year period.

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Danny King, January 26, 2010