According to Reuters, the three people familiar with the matter revealed that the team of the next President Donald Trump in the United States is considering canceling the cancellation of the electrical contracts for the delivery team (U.S. Postal Service). Part of the extensive administrative command.
This will be announced in the early days after Trump will be on power on January 20 next year. Trump promised during the campaign to cancel the policies formulated by the current US President Joe Bayeng to work hard to make the US transportation industry’s decarburization in response to climate change. Trump has said that the decarburization agenda is unnecessary, which may cause damage to the US economy, and plans to cancel the US electric vehicle tax credit policy and the stricter fuel efficiency standards of the Bayeng government.
Sources revealed that the Trump team is now considering how to dismiss billions of dollars in the postal department, including contracts signed by tens of thousands of pure electric trucks and charging stations signed by American auto manufacturer Oshkosh and Ford Motors.
After the above report was released, Oshkosh’s stock price fell about 5%to $ 105.65.
Oshkosh stated in a statement that the company has worked closely with the US Post Office, designed and delivered a modern team with a flexible combination of electric and gasoline power vehicles. These vehicles have obtained initial positive positive and positive post operators. evaluate.
Oshkosh said: “Oshkosh is fully committed to our solid partnership with the US Post Office, and we look forward to continuing to provide our post operators with reliable, safe and sustainable modern delivery tools, even if the needs of the US Post Office are constantly changing.”
In response to the above reports, Ford Motors has not responded to the request for comment.
In 2021, the Biden government issued an administrative order on electric vehicles, announcing that 50%of new passenger cars and light trucks in the next will be zero -emission vehicles. In order to achieve this goal, the Bayeng government instructed the US federal agencies to formulate new emission and fuel standards to accelerate the popularization of electric vehicles.
In 2023, as part of the US Climate Act 430 billion US dollars, the US Congress provided US $ 3 billion for the purchase of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. The U.S. Post Office plans to purchase about 66,000 electric vehicles to build one of the largest electric vehicle teams in the United States by 2028.
According to the U.S. Post Office, as part of the electric vehicle purchase plan, Oshkosh is expected to deliver about 45,000 electric vehicles, and the rest will be from Ford Automobile and other automakers in the future. The U.S. Post Office also said that the first batch of 14,000 chargers will be provided by Siemens, Chargepoint and Blink.
The U.S. Post Office is an independent US federal agency with an independent management committee, which makes the abolition of contracts legal challenging.
Analysts of Jefferies, an investment bank, said in a report that the next government of the United States is unlikely to completely cancel the US Post Office’s electric postal car plan. But analysts also said that the post -car group may shift from electric vehicles to fuel vehicles.
Analysts wrote: “Considering the needs of replacing aging teams, we believe that the US Post Office will receive a new car in 2025. At that time, the post -car group may change to soothe the Trump administration that is less friendly to electric vehicles.”
In response to the above reports, the US Post has not responded to the request for comment, and Trump’s team has not directly comment on the contract plan of the General Administration of Post.