US government fleet to be fully electric

2021-05-22 17:27:46  News

January 26, according to foreign media reports, a new "Buy American" executive order signed by President Joe Biden on Monday will replace the federal government's existing fleet of about 650,000 vehicles with electric vehicles assembled in the United States, as the new administration shifts its focus to clean energy.


"The federal government also has a huge fleet of vehicles, and we're going to replace them with clean electric vehicles made on American soil by American workers," Biden said Monday.


The White House did not immediately answer a question about when Biden plans to replace the current fleet of cars. Replacing the fleet could cost $20 billion or more. He said the fleet replacement would help his administration's plan to create one million new jobs in the U.S. auto industry.


According to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), as of 2019, the U.S. government owned 645,000 vehicles, drove 4.5 billion miles and consumed 375 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel.The GSA said the U.S. government spent $4.4 billion on federal vehicle costs in 2019.The GSA said that as of July 2020, only 3,215 of the U.S. government's vehicles vehicles are electric.


During the campaign, Biden vowed to "make a major federal commitment to buy clean cars for federal, state, tribal, postal and local fleets." Biden also announced plans to make it more difficult to replace fleets with stricter use of American-made parts in government purchases. He said current standards require that at least 50 per cent of the vehicle parts purchased be from the US. And he supports providing subsidies to new consumers to replace older, less efficient vehicles with newer electric vehicles.

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Biden also pledged to build 550,000 electric vehicle charging stations and to invest more money in clean energy research. US automakers reacted positively, with General Motors saying in a statement that "the company is encouraged by President Biden's commitment to supporting American manufacturing and looks forward to the details of the order."


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