Congress Considers Adding 20,000 Electric Vehicles To USPS Fleet

With around 260,000 vehicles at its disposal, the United States Postal Service operates the biggest civilian fleet in the country. Unfortunately, most of those vehicles get terrible gas mileage: the Grumman postal van only earns around 10mpg, and the 17% of USPS trucks that run on E85 don't fare any better.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1042211_congress-considers-adding-20000-electric-vehicles-to-usps-fleet
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Richard Read, February 2, 2010