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USPS set to buy Canoo electric vans
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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Wait—is this really an article about the purchase of 6 vans? Six.
While I'd prefer more like 10 or 20, when they are doing a trial, people tend to get upset if the government spends more than they think is appropriate. If these work as well as the company claims they do, they'll buy more, for the next hundred years if history is any indication.
Knowing Canoo, six is all they can come up with for the test. I like their smaller van, and even have some money invested in them, but they're not looking like a real company at this point, they're years behind on production, not transparent at all about how many vehicles they've made, but they love to announce the deals they've made with WalMart, NASA, USPS, OK and more. This van is actually one of their newer designs, I think they created it on request by WalMart.