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President Biden Wants to Replace Federal Fleet With EVs

Photo credit: Ford
Photo credit: Ford

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President Biden Wants to Replace Federal Fleet With EVs

President Joe Biden is a big proponent of electric vehicles, and he wants the U.S. to be an EV leader. Reuters (via Automotive News) reports that Biden vowed Monday to replace the approximately 650,000 vehicles in the federal government fleet. As of July 2020, just over 3000 federal vehicles were electric, so there's a long way to go before the whole fleet will go all-EV. But, with Ford and GM soon building electric vans and trucks, and startups like Rivian getting into that space, too, it's definitely possible. Not all federal vehicles need be trucks either, and there are plenty of smaller vehicles already on the market.