Biden administration to replace entire federal fleet with electric vehicles

Running a country requires a lot of things, and one of those things is a lot of vehicles. Right now, the vast majority of those vehicles – if not all – run on fossil fuel, but according to an announcement made by President Biden on Monday, that will change.

The current federal vehicle fleet is estimated at around 645,000 vehicles and President Biden plans to replace all of them with American-made electric vehicles. The American part of this is critical because the announcement was part of Biden’s “Made In America” executive order, which is expected to redirect a significant portion of government spending to American businesses and products made in the United States.

The announcement follows many discussions during Biden’s presidential campaign about pushing Americans more towards electric vehicles and cleaner energy in general. Sadly, the administration didn’t include a timeline with its proclamation, so when the change actually starts to happen, everyone’s guessing.

The US Postal Service’s current fleet of delivery vehicles – many of which are still the Grumman LLV which became the vehicle of choice for post offices in the 1980s. Several companies have bid for the contract to build the replacement for the LLV, but so far, none were chosen.

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