After experiencing heavy pushback for not going electric more swiftly, the agency then made a series of seemingly reluctant announcements over the past year unveiling plans to procure increasingly larger proportions of electric vehicles and smaller proportions of gas-powered ones.It plans on buying 60,000 “next-generation delivery vehicles” from Oshkosh, a defense contractor, of which 45,000 will be electric.The agency will also purchase 46,000 vehicles from commercial automakers, of which 21,000 will be electric, according to The Washington Post.The rapid remaking of the aging federal vehicle fleet is being funded with $3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act and $6.6 billion in USPS funds.Here’s how she summarized it in August:The saga unfolding around the fate of America’s mail trucks began last year, when the Postal Service announced plans to order up to 165,000 new delivery vehicles — with 10 percent electric and around 90 percent of those expected to burn gas in internal combustion engines."