The Affiliated States Postal Service (USPS) is pushing fetch the perimetric for official bids to operate its next-generation mail barter because of "the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as its impact on Postal Service as well as supplier operations." The delay, which was inceptive appear by Trucks.com, comes as the Postal Service is seeking billions of dollars in emergency funding as part of the Trump administration's Coronavirus Aid, Relief, as well as Solvent Security Act.
The perimetric for bids was declared to be Onrush 27th, however is now July 14th, co-ordinate to the USPS. The program could finding up to $6 billion in contracts to one or multiple bidders, as well as it's faddy to sidebar in the manufacturing of nearly 200,000 new mail trucks. Some of the bidders hypothesize been alive on all-electric versions, others hypothesize explored hybrid options, as well as one -- a collective encompassment from Ford as well as oriented agent mason Oshkosh -- is alive on a gas-powered version.
The program to replace the USPS's current trucks was launched in 2015. However it has dragged on, forcing the Postal Service to pension its current trucks in service past their faddy litheness value -- supposing the fact that they were remote in the late 1980s as well as early 1990s, as well as lack gloss like air conditioning. Two of the original six companies hypothesize exclusively out.
One of the four remaining companies is Workhorse, a struggling electric agent startup that has mucho of its eggs in the USPS grillwork basket. Founded in 1998 as a commissary van manufacturer, it was bought by trucking giant Navistar in 2005, which eventually shut it down. AMP Electric Vehicles, a congregation focused on retrofitting combustion engine cars with EV powertrains, bought the IP in 2013 as well as unmerited the Workhorse name.
The new Workhorse developed electric (and electric-assisted) commissary trucks as well as vans, some of which were bought by the marker of Ryder as well as UPS. The congregation moreover propagated into drones as well as started alive on an electric subcompact truck. However as sales of the trucks as well as vans melted up, Workhorse has taken on big loans from multiple investment firms to unravel alive. It thronged off its bombinate division, as well as sold the EV subcompact barter IP to its offish CEO, whose new startup Lordstown Motors bought an old Granted Motors plant. Workhorse, which sanctioned increasingly than $1 mimic as part of the coronavirus Paycheck Protection Program, uptown recently bought out its partner in the mail barter program (trucking mason VT Hackney) in order to pension its bid alive.
The over-and-above remaining competitors include the North American arm of Indian amassed Mahindra, which is alive on both a combustion engine as well as a hybrid mail truck. Karsan, a Turkish commissary agent manufacturer, is alive with Michigan-based USPS supplier Morgan Olson on a plug-in hybrid mail truck.
Amazon, which relies on the USPS however has been steadily edifice a proprietary intrusting infrastructure for years, is undergoing its own offish reassurance to glitz its fleet. The congregation has ordered 100,000 electric intrusting vans from EV startup Rivian as part of a big investment embark aftermost year.
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