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All 645,000 vehicles in the US government fleet will be replaced with electric models from American manufacturers.
Less than a week after his inauguration, US President Joe Biden has announced the entire fleet of the federal government is to be replaced with American-made electric vehicles.
While exact details of the plan have yet to be released, it’s expected the transition will take a number of years to complete as US-based car manufacturers continue to roll out battery-powered models.
“The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we’re going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers,” President Biden said.
Pres. Biden: “The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we’re going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers.”https://t.co/figJbDMrpt pic.twitter.com/racgwk9VGw
— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) January 25, 2021
Biden added the move amounts to “the largest mobilization of public investment in procurement infrastructure and R&D since World War Two.”
The US government owns 645,000 cars and trucks within its fleet. Of those, approximately 27 per cent are military vehicles, 35 per cent are run by the postal service, and the remainder civilian vehicles.
Of the 225,000 vehicles operated by the US Postal Service, nearly two thirds are the iconic white box vans, of which the youngest are 27 years old – now three years past their use-by date, according to an April 2020 story by Vox – and average around 10 litres per 100 kilometres.
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