Oshkosh has no experience building EVs, they have not even designed a prototype EV

“The challenge is that the Postal Service has awarded a contract for internal combustion vehicles and we’ve got to unwind that,” Huffman said. “The company that they contracted with — Oshkosh out of Wisconsin — has no experience building EVs, they have not even designed a prototype EV. So, that is why we’re moving with urgency to pass this bill but to also do whatever we can to stop this bad contract from going forward.”

“There was a competing bid with an American-made company called Workhorse that makes electric vehicles for UPS and light, medium and heavy-duty trucks,” Huffman said. “They’ve actually designed an EV prototype for the Postal Service that’s a working electric vehicle. They can start manufacturing pretty quickly and that makes a heck of a lot more sense if we’re serious about clean vehicles than the contract that the Postmaster General awarded.”