NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — New York City will begin to replace nearly 925 of its fleet’s vehicles with electric ones thanks to a $10.1 million federal grant, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.
“When New Yorkers see cars, trucks, and vans with the ‘NYC’ logo on the side, they can rest assured that those vehicles are contributing to a greener city,” Adams said. “We are already ahead of schedule in transitioning city vehicles away from fossil fuels, and this new grant will allow us to take nearly 1,000 fossil-fuel vehicles off our roads, helping us reduce carbon emissions, make our air cleaner, and save on fuel costs.”
The funds will be used to procure 382 Chevrolet Bolts, 360 Ford E-Transit vans and 150 Ford F-150 E-Lightning pick-up trucks. The Department of Sanitation will also receive 25 plug-in hybrid street sweepers.
Grant funds were provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program and supports the city’s goal of electrifying its entire vehicle fleet.
More than half of the grant funds, $6.2 million, will be dispersed through the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services. The agency has a goal of operating over 5,000 EVs by June of this year. They also ordered the first three electric buses for the New York City Department of Correction. DCAS is also working on EV contracts for box trucks, garbage trucks for the Department of Parks and Recreation and additional replacements of gas cars with electric models.
In addition to increasing the EV fleet, DCAS also operates the largest EV charging network in New York State, with over 1,300 charging ports available to fleet units. DCAS will deploy another 600 charging ports in the next 18 months. This funding announced today is supporting the purchase of 315 additional charging units.
“Thanks to this investment from the Biden Administration, the city is poised to make huge progress on making our fleet more climate-friendly,” said Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi. “Our agencies rely on these vehicles to complete vital operations within the five boroughs, and this funding helps us decarbonize some of the hardest vehicles to decarbonize: heavy-duty trucks. From cleaning the streets to getting our air cleaner, the trucks move us in the right direction.”
Some of the grant money will also go toward installing more charging stations. DCAS plans on rolling out 600 charging ports in the next 18 months to join the already existing 1,300 ports they operate throughout the state. The grant funds will be used to purchase 315 of the 600 ports.
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