Posted on 12/29/2021 10:04:43 AM PST by Red Badger
According to a recent report published by Green Car Congress, New York City is accelerating its already aggressive efforts to electrify its entire fleet of public vehicles. Not only will the city invest some $420 million in electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and other alternative fuels, but it will also work to move to a fully electric fleet by 2035.
The report notes that NYC had already set an earlier goal to go all-electric by 2040. That said, the new $420 million investment will be in addition to the previous $75 million in related investments the city just announced back in September 2021.
If New York City is able to follow through with these plans, it will go down in history as the largest investment ever made to fully electrify a public vehicle fleet. Green Car Congress explains:
"All light-duty, medium-duty, and non-emergency heavy-duty vehicles will be converted to electric by 2035. This entails the most aggressive fleet electrification target in the country, and includes earlier restrictions for passenger cars and light trucks requiring electrification by 2030. New York City operates nearly 30,000 vehicles, the largest municipal fleet in the country."
In order to carry out this monumental effort, NYC has to take a plethora of important steps going forward. Fortunately, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has already signed an executive order to get the ball rolling.
The executive order will increase related staff and up funding for the support and maintenance of upcoming EV charging networks. However, it does clarify that some "specialized vehicles," such as fire engines, will be allowed to stick to the previous 2040 goal if there aren't compelling fully electric versions available.
Highlights of the NYC plan include replacing all of the city's gas-powered vehicles, beginning with a minimum of 1,250 in 2022 alone. All cars operated by "senior City officials" will be fully electric by June 30, 2023.
In addition, the city will install at least 1,776 EV fast chargers by 2030, with a minimum of 100 available for public use as well. The plan also includes portable mobile EV chargers, solar carports, and the expansion of various alternative fuels.
LOL; I can see Midtown streets clogged by battery-dead buses.
Poor suffering taxpayers being sold a “Green Hoax!”
Where will the electricity be generated and how much will THAT cost vis a vis petroleum-based vehicles?
Not a bad idea actually, mail vehicles,dog catchers,garbage trucks, metermaids and such. How would you out race a Tesla cop car?
The left always uses the word “investment” when they spend money on a highly dubious political project.
What could possibly go wrong!
It still won’t match the boondoggle of California.
If there is one place in the US that could really make this work it is NYC.
they have a largely self contaoned non driving population already.
They have good public trans.
They could stop any gas vehicles at the bridges and force them to take public trans.
And only let in Gas/ Diesel trucks.
If I had money. I’d be buying up land and putting up massive parking lots.
Of course the question is, where is ALL the electricity going to come from to power this?
Politicians and their 10, 20, 30 year plans that they will never be held accountable for.
“Of course the question is, where is ALL the electricity going to come from to power this?”
Power will always come from the politically acceptable and woke places places.
Electricity is a commodity, a commodity is fungible, fungible is interchangeable with similar, green and dirty power is just power with differing tax incentives. If there is a green source of energy on the power grid, it is “mostly” green power grid.
What the greens do not know how to do is declare linguistic tortured victory and go back to planter box farming in their own human waste.
They would do much better with a CNG fleet; Boston’s been using Compressed Natural Gas buses for a long time now, and they have quietly performed very well. About the only thing they’ve done right, but broken clocks and Democrats….
They would do much better with a CNG fleet; Boston’s been using Compressed Natural Gas buses for a long time now, and they have quietly performed very well. About the only thing they’ve done right, but broken clocks and Democrats….
“How would you out race a Tesla cop car?”
Wit NYC traffic, how can you outrace a bicycle? No need for expensive EVs.
Most urban centers around America could operate entirely with electric vehicles, save for things like snowplows and tow trucks that have to have uptime when other vehicles are out. They have predictable usage requirements per day, the ability to have centralized purchasing and maintenance to leverage economies of scale and centrally-managed infrastructure. This would be a good thing. Picking things like electricity generation and dead batteries out as critical flaws that will cause the whole system to fail is no more valid than saying the horsedrawn carriage industry failed because the horses were too expensive to feed and the streets were littered with horse carcasses.
The fact that almost every city government in America is thoroughly polluted by corrupt and inept socialists who are bound to do everything badly doesn't change the underlying soundness of the abstract concept. It does make it rather difficult to pull off, but electric vehicles aren't the reason.
OK
I am waiting for when those battery powered snow plows are called out at midnight, at minus 10.
If they just had some solar panels on the snow plow roofs . . .
When a battery is totally RIP dead, where are they going to dump them?
Martha’s Vineyard? DiBlasio’s lawn? O’Bama’s Library? Hillary’s farm?
That’s a lotta toxic material.
As for the internal combustion vehicles that these EV’s will replace . . . Will they be destroyed to insure that NYC actually meets their “climate goals?” Unlikely - they’ll probably be auctioned off to businesses and the general public who will continue to use them for years, if not decades.
Would love to see the life-cycle cost of these EV’s, as compared to the ICE versions.
Craziness.
Also note that Constitution requires feds to periodically publish statement of recepts.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."
There are web sites with federal receipt information, but I haven't explored them yet.
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