AMP Holding responds to US Postal Service’s Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Acquisition Program

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AMP Holding, the parent company of AMP Electric Vehicles has responded to a Request for Information and Prequalification (RFI) from the United States Postal Service (USPS) for its Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) Acquisition Program.

The USPS wants to replace its current fleet of mail delivery vehicles by making a single award in 2017 for up to 180,000 NGDVs.

Delivery of the NGDVs to the USPS will begin by January 2018.

AMP Holding has chalked out a potential cost savings proposal and submitted to the USPS regarding its Workhorse E-GEN electric truck and HorseFly drone.

The Company has provided its efficiency and experience in developing vehicle prototypes. They can produce, deliver and provide for national deployment of up to 180,000 vehicles.

In addition, it can meet or exceed the 20-year useful life and 150,000-mile range requirements of the NGDVs.

Besides, the Company’s factory has the capacity to produce 60,000 vehicles per year.

The approach to the NGDV will help the USPS to reduce operating costs and increase efficiency by adapting larger vehicles that can accommodate both mail and packages.

The heavy stop-and-go nature of mail and package delivery, combined with the limited miles traveled per day, are ideal for the electric Workhorse truck.

Additionally, company’s optional integrated HorseFly package delivery drone is designed to increase the number of packages that a truck can deliver in a day.

According to company sources, the technology has the potential to make the USPS the greenest and efficient delivery fleet, supplementing advantages to improve its bottom line.
With a one-time replacement of the largest fleet in the world, the USPS has a unique opportunity to redefine how delivery trucks operate, says the company statement.

Sabeena Wahid
editor@greentechlead.com

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