That’s a good question. Go ask Oshkosh. The company probably has its hands full competing for a hand in the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, which has scheduled a follow-on production contract in September 2022.
“While the U.S. Army has not requested a hybrid-electric JLTV as part of the JLTV recompete, the eJLTV proves that Oshkosh Defense has the team and technical capabilities to produce this highly capable vehicle today,” said Oshkosh Corporation EVP John Bryant, who is also President of Oshkosh Defense.
DeJoy did budge a little bit last spring, to make room for electric drive for 20% of the initial order of. That sounds pretty good, considering that the initial contract called for only 10% EVs overall. However, it still means that 40,000 new delivery trucks will roll off the assembly line with good old fashioned gasmobile technology under the hood.
Perhaps its newfound enthusiasm for electric vehicles has something to do with multiple lawsuits filed over the new contract, including one brought by 16 states over shortcomings in the initialCircling back around to the competition between Amazon and Walmart, if there’s a three-way EV race going on with USPS, Walmart may have some catching up to do.
Now even less Amazon packages will make it to their intended destination.
There’s typo in this article: “Amazon stole thunder from Amazon” Also, what about FedEx, which already has EVs on the street?