City Of Pasadena Launches Chevrolet Bolt EV Fleet
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The City of Pasadena, California just adopted a new fleet of Chevrolet Bolt EVs to provide transportation for Pasadena City staffers on their daily work duties. In total, there are 38 new Bolt EV models available for use by various city departments, 37 of which will replace an existing gasoline-powered vehicle in the city fleet.
“The City is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and these new EVs support this goal by using and promoting electric vehicles,” said Public Works Director Ara Maloyan in a memo to the City Manager.
Most of the models in Pasadena’s Chevrolet Bolt EV fleet were leased via a 36-month-long plan, while nine of the vehicles were funded via the Fleet Replacement Fund. Maloyan says the Bolt EV fleet will help to reduce fleet maintenance and fuel costs compared to their internal-combustion counterparts.
To help keep the Bolt EV fleet topped off, the City of Pasadena has also explored additional charging opportunities.
“With the additional EVs in the City’s fleet, staff from the Department of Water and Power (PWP) have created a comprehensive parking and charging plan to accommodate EV users, including employees using personal EVs, City EVs, visitors, and for general public use,” Maloyan wrote.
Pasadena will install 25 new charging stations at its Holly Street Parking Structure, located at 150 E. Holly Street, with a planned operational launch in the next three months.
Charging the Chevrolet Bolt EV
With 250 miles of driving range, Maloyan’s memo says the Chevrolet Bolt EVs in the fleet will only need to recharge once every one to two weeks. If additional range is needed in a pinch, the City Yard location offers two quick chargers that can add 100 miles of range in an hour.
“With the growing market for EV drivers, ongoing discussions and continued efforts are being planned and implemented to expand charging stations at various parking facilities and City lots,” the memo adds.
Officials will use Chevy’s small, all-electric hatchbacks for quick local trips, likely with a good deal of stop and go traffic – exactly where an EV powertrain excels. What’s more, Southern California is filled with charging stations, further supporting the use of an EV. According to chargehub.com, there are 1,130 EV charge stations in a 15-km radius around Pasadena.
| Body style / driveline: | front-wheel-drive, five-passenger, five-door all-electric CUV |
|---|---|
| Battery energy: | 60 kWh |
| Electric driving range | EPA-estimated 238 miles (255 city / 217 highway) |
| Electric drive: | Single motor and gearset |
| Power: | 200 hp/150 kW |
| Torque: | 266 lb-ft/360 Nm |
| 0-60 mph: | Under 7 seconds |
| Max cargo room (cu-ft / L): | 56.6 / 1603 |
It’s also worth noting that the Chevrolet Bolt EV is an American car breaking through the SoCal market, which is dominated by Toyota, Honda, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, among other imports.
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Source: Pasadena Now
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This is good news to my ears. Having lived (unfortunately) in southern California now for 8 years, I am really sick of seeing tax payer supported Toyota’s, Honda’s and MBW’s. You would NEVER see that in another country like Japan! Hell, Japan does everything it can to keep USA brand cars out of there. So excuse me if I get a little upset when I see my tax money going to pay for import brand cars and trucks for city or county or state vehicles. Personally, I think there should be a law about this and any city/town/municipal that buys or leases a Toyota or Honda or any other import brand vehicle should have it’s federal funding revoked.
Thanks Pasadena for buying/leasing the Bolts!
i’d bet toyota and honda pays more in federal taxes than gm since gm pays nothing.
@steve:
Please provide your source of this? Or are you just another Toyota/Honda fan boy?
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/02/28/gm-ford-rarely-pay-federal-taxes-tax-refunds/2985737002/
And so like many other large corps, GM and Ford paid no or little federal tax. What makes you think Toyota is any different? What about in Japan? I’m more than sure they have similar “benefits” there as GM does here.
But this comes down to the question of why you felt the need to bring this up? Do you feel states/cities/counties within the USA should buy import brand vehicles? Why? Do you have something against American brands? Or once again I’ll ask if you are just another fan boy of imports from Japan?
You didn’t even read the article, did you? You’re just defaulting to attacking anyone who doesn’t agree with you by calling them fan boys.
You asked about tax money and who pays what, and now you’re moving the goalposts to avoid having to admit that GM and Ford have their own market advantages in the US as Toyota does in Japan.
Don’t be a hypocrite. If you have counter-evidence, provide it. Don’t resort to name-calling.
Thanks Grawdaddy. As always, your comments are appreciated. However, I did read the article. I also know that Toyota and Honda (and I’m sure other Japanese brands) get/take/accept handouts or tax cuts or whatever you wish to call it from states and cities and the Japanese government.
So sorry if my dislike of the Toyota/Honda cheerleaders offends you. I’ve never seen a group of people who are so extreme about defending (or pushing) their beloved companies in the face of anyone they meet. I find it disgusting and have zero tolerance with them. And my first post had NOTHING to do with federal taxes. I spoke about my tax money, local tax money and state tax money going to GM instead of an import brand. I then ended with the comment that any of these places that spend our local tax money on import brand cars should have all federal funding taken away. So in your wisdom, please explain the reason Steve would feel the need to throw federal taxes into the comment while defending Toyota/Honda in the mix?
Dan, I’ve dreaded the day I’d see or hear about a municipality buying any vehicle but GM, Ford of Chrysler(Fiat). Haven’t seen it in on east coast. I agree with you 100%.
Dear Mary Barra,
I’m a resident of the San Gabriel Valley. There’s a lot of land there if you know where to look. A nice GM Electric Car plant would really reduce the delivery costs of these vehicles. To make it affordable maybe some parts are built in nearby Mexico.
Maybe you make a sweetheart deal with the state, which is: the state promises to buy them a thousand at a time — with an appropriate discount for guaranteed sales. Guaranteed because we residents would line up for each batch.
The more sold, the more charging infrastructure the state builds. It has to start somewhere on this scale…
… why not here?
(Heck, if it came to it, California could buy an interest in GM… so that thousands of them were sold at cost.)
Great acquisition by the City of Pasadena! The Bolt is a great vehicle. We have two since early 2017 and just love the versatility, range, power, efficiency, good ride quality, seating height for view of the road, other great features – like surround vision, heated seats, heated steering wheel, Android Auto & Apple Carplay compatibility – awesome vehicles that have saved us nearly $9K in fuel costs over the past 2.5 years while driving just over 30K miles per Bolt (replaced two vehicles that averaged only 18mpg between the two if them). Will never buy a gas powered vehicle again!
Couldn’t agree more! I own a 2017 and loved it so much that we also replaced my wife’s with our second Bolt. Will never go back to gas.