New York Targets Full Electric Vehicle Fleet By 2035
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General Motors has plans to launch 30 new electric vehicle models by 2025, with a broad range of retail and fleet options coming down the pipe. Indeed, a number of public groups will be interested in what GM has to offer as EV adoption ramps up, and to that end, it was recently reported that New York City is aiming to replace its municipal fleet with a new range of EVs.
Per a recent report from Green Car Congress, New York City will pursue a complete conversion of its municipal fleet to electric power by 2035. The transition to an all-electric fleet will be hastened with an investment of $420 million, which will also go towards the construction of new electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The investment is the largest of its kind when it comes to the conversion of a public vehicle fleet to all-electric power, and will include the entirety of the city’s light-duty, medium-duty, and non-emergency heavy-duty vehicles. Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio codified the proposed electric vehicle transition with an executive order.
New York previously set a goal of converting its fleet to electric vehicles by 2040, but is now accelerating that goal by five years. The city operates the largest municipal fleet in the country, with roughly 30,000 vehicles total.
The investment outlines the replacement of 1,250 gasoline-powered vehicles next year, as well as the installation of 1,776 new electric vehicle charging stations across all five boroughs by 2030. It’s expected that at least 100 of the new EV chargers will be open to the public.
The plan also includes the addition of 180 portable mobile electric vehicle chargers and solar carports, which will be movable from location to location for flexible charging solutions, plus emergency power following an outage of the broader electric grid. What’s more, senior City officials will exclusively use electric vehicles by June 30th of 2023.
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GM is going to sell a lot of Electric trucks here in NY.
Ahhhh yes……..Government forcing something onto the public before there is a demand for it. What could possibly go wrong????
This article is about a government fleet. Try reading next time. What could go wrong?
Technically they are forcing the public into electric vehicles, after all the taxpayers will be paying for these over priced electric garbage.
That is true!
NY will buy the evs before they have the ability to charge all of them. They always do things bass ackwards.
The Infrastructure Bill will cover the cost of those Charging Stations, nothing to worry about there.
You mean the tax payer? The government has no money of there own it’s all tax payer money.
Good luck in having enough generated electricity to recharge all the electric cars without fossil fuels. For example to fully charge a Tesla is like running an electric dryer for straight 17 hours. Imagine everyone recharging at once every night as well as running their electric dryer. It’s a pipe dream.
I wonder if adolf covid cuomo approves of this?
As far as the official City NYC fleet goes, the recharging may not be that big of a deal as I would imagine the average ‘official vehicle’ doesn’t drive all that many miles per week….
Of course – surely the senior ‘officials’ put on many miles per day going home to Long Island or Connecticut.
I have 3 GM evs, but it works for me since I get most of my juice from economical solar panels, (in actuality, I power the neighborhood during the day, and recharge the cars at night – using excess Nuclear from Canada, or even coal power from Pennsylvania… I’m close to both locales – but I get ‘accounting credit’ for the electricity I manufacture), and the very small amount of ‘purchased’ electricity is about 1/3rd the cost of what NYC customers are forced to pay.
To the extent that all these vehicles recharge over night, they will ‘help’ the grid… But the huge numbers of fast-chargers to be installed means that recharging will happen at the worst time of the day when electricity is in short supply and even more expensive (over $1 / kwh during the peak summertime loads) – A Hummer EV recharging during this time (300 – 350 miles) would cost over $200 to refuel…. Not likely you say?
I say its “Likely”… Big Wigs in the city will drive home and back to work on the ‘city’s fuel’ and will recharge during the day – sufficient to get to Connecticut and back for the next day’s recharging. You can’t expect $200,000 / year officialdom to actually use THEIR OWN juice at home to do this.
There is discussion of a NEW natural gas powered generating plant near Giants/Jets Stadium to provide NYC with electricity. There is a already a generating plant near there.