After years of squirming, Amazon agreed to implement a raft of major business practice concessions to the European Commission to avoid paying a looming multi-billion dollar antitrust fine. Though Amazon will walk away from the skirmish without having to drain its wallet, the concessions could fan the flames for…
The United States Postal Service said it expects to buy more than 66,000 electric vehicles by the end of 2028 in a significant change from previous plans. In February, the USPS said it would purchase 5,000 fully electric versions of the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, with gas-powered trucks accounting for the remaining 45,000 of the initial order. After pushback from the Biden administration and resistance to that from the USPS, the agency has graduallyincreased the proportion of EVs in the order.
Now, the postal service aims to buy at least 60,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles by 2028, at least 75 percent of which will be electric models. Starting in 2026, the USPS expects that all NGDV acquisitions will be electric versions. The NGDVs are expected to start operating on delivery routes late next year. In addition, the agency plans to buy another 21,000 off-the-shelf EVs through 2028.
Overall, the USPS plans to buy 106,000 delivery vehicles by the end of 2028 to start replacing its aging, inefficient and not-as-safe fleet of more than 220,000 vehicles. That means the agency still expects to buy around 40,000 gas-powered models over the next six years. The USPS said in a statement that the feasibility of fully electrifying the fleet “will continue to be explored.” However, it believes there will be more EV availability in the future, which will certainly help.
The agency expects to spend $9.6 billion on these vehicle purchases and related infrastructure, $3 billion of which is from Inflation Reduction Act funding. “The $3 billion provided by Congress has significantly reduced the risk associated with accelerating the implementation of a nationwide infrastructure necessary to electrify our delivery fleet,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said. “While most of the electric vehicle funding will continue to come from Postal Service revenues, we are grateful for the confidence that Congress and the Administration have placed in us to build and acquire what has the potential to become the largest electric vehicle fleet in the nation.”
The actor also shared behind-the-scenes footage of another stunt — which he called “the most dangerous thing we’ve ever attempted.”
Because there’s a market for absolutely everything, the Cheetos Body Pillow is a neck/body pillow in the form of a giant Cheetos Puff. Unfortunately, it is not Cheetos scented, which is a misstep in product design if you ask me. Forgoing the addition of Cheetos dust was probably a smart decision though, despite what I would have suggested.
The body pillow is sold in a $50 bundle that includes a 3.25-ounce bag of Cheetos Crunchy sticks as well. Why they decided to include the Crunchy sticks and not the Puffs is beyond me, considering the body pillow IS a giant Puff. Does Frito-Lay need me to take over its entire marketing department, or what?
You probably already suspected it as much, but this is going to be my new neck pillow whenever I fly. Will it spill over into the seat of my wife sitting next to me? Probably. Will she complain to a flight attendant? Knowing her, absolutely. She did the same thing the last time I took her peanuts!
The InSight lander, which has spent over four years carrying out science on the Martian surface, may have finally died due to a lack of solar power.
A lot has happened since James Cameron’s first Avatar movie came out in 2009. Presidents have come and gone, pandemics have waxed and waned, and empires have risen and fallen. Also, Avatar: The Way of Water star Edie Falco shot her scenes as a hawkish general and then assumed the movie bombed because she never heard…
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is asking politicians and charities that received millions in donations from its former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, to please give them back so it can pay off its debts.
Deep in Elon Musk’s Twitter replies are the likely hints of the flailing social media CEO’s next policy change. Twitter Blue subscribers, who pay the minimum $8 a month for the privilege of a “verified” checkmark and nebulous other perks like (maybe) fewer ads, will soon be the only ones allowed to vote in important…
Year after year, we demand more and more features and functionality from our daily use devices, but for some reason we’re happy to just let lamps slack off and do nothing but give us light? The lamp’s day of reckoning is here now that Lenovo has shown us how much functionality it’s crammed into its new Go Desk Station.
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