Ross Gerber Says Amazon, USPS Need to Sunset ‘Dirty’ Gas Trucks Amid High Fuel Costs, Energy Shocks - Ama

Investor Ross Gerber thinks it might be time for companies like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), as well as the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), to switch over to electric delivery trucks amid high fuel costs at the pump.

Ross Gerber Hails FedEx’ EV Switch

In a post on X on Sunday, Gerber quoted a post by CleanTechnica, which shared that a California-based company had secured a 2,500-truck contract with freight and logistics giant FedEx Corp (NYSE:FDX). “Just great to see @FedEx going green,” Gerber said. He added that EV trucks made him “happy.”

He also urged Amazon and the USPS to switch to clean energy. “Now Amazon and the post office need to rid themselves of dirty, expensive to operate gas trucks,” the Gerber Kawasaki Wealth Management co-founder said in the post.

Notably, Amazon already operates more than 40,000 custom electric delivery vans in the U.S., but gasoline-powered vehicles remain part of its broader delivery fleet.

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According to an official statement by the USPS in December last year, the agency’s fleet-modernization plan calls for at least 66,000 battery-electric delivery vehicles by 2028. The vehicles are a part of the contract awarded to defense company Oshkosh Corp (NYSE:OSK), as well as separately procured commercial off-the-shelf EVs.

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Earlier, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough had said that Republican lawmakers would not be able to force the agency to abandon its clean energy goals.

Notably, the President Donald Trump administration has taken several anti-EV decisions, including the ending of state-backed incentives, as well as EV credit sales and the relaxation of fuel economy standards for automakers, touting savings for consumers and an end to the “EV mandate” enforced by the previous President Joe Biden administration.