President Biden is not losing any time in making his coverage clear on electrical automobiles. In a speech in the present day, lower than one week into his Presidency, Biden introduced that he plans to switch all federal automobiles in service with domestically-made EVs.

In line with the Normal Service Administration’s 2019 Federal Fleet Report, that is a complete of 645,000 automobiles – and that is quite a lot of EVs. Nonetheless, earlier than you get too excited, the President did not lay out any plans or timeline in anyway, solely a dedication to transition the fleet to zero-emission electrical automobiles. 

Collectively, this would be the largest mobilization of public funding and procurement infrastructure and R&D since World Warfare II. – President Biden

Biden additionally added that all the electrical automobiles could be domestically made and that it might be the biggest mobilization of public funding and procurement infrastructure since World Warfare Two. That is attention-grabbing as a result of it might actually slender down the alternatives that the assorted departments have when ordering alternative automobiles. 

Tesla Mannequin 3s have already confirmed to make nice Police cruisers for some departments that had been prepared to present the automobile an opportunity. It seems to be paying off and the Bargersville Police division in Indiana introduced that the Model 3 saved them $6,750 in just one 12 months of service, as in comparison with a Dodge Charger cruiser. We are able to solely think about how a lot the federal government would save by changing greater than half 1,000,000 automobiles with environment friendly EVs. 

Practically 22% of the automobiles within the federal fleet are mail trucks, that are lengthy overdue for alternative. The common age of a Grumman mail supply truck is 28 years outdated they usually lack primary important capabilities of recent automobiles together with airbags, anti-lock brakes, and air-con.

Mail supply automobiles are good candidates for electrical automobiles as a result of they’ve set routes, do quite a lot of stop-and-go low-speed driving, and in lots of cases need not cowl many miles to finish their day by day route. The 140,000 federal mail vehicles presently in service must be the primary fleet to be transformed. 

If we take Biden’s announcement actually, then we’ve to imagine he means he’ll be ordering a brand new all-electric Presidential limo, affectionately generally known as “The Beast”. Maybe it is going to be a customized stretched Hummer EV-based Cadillac SUV? One factor we all know for certain although, and that is he will not be calling on Elon Musk to make the bulletproof glass.