NYC surpasses 4,050 city-owned electric vehicles, meeting its target 3 years ahead of schedule
New York City hit a massive milestone as the city announced it has already met its 2025 goal of 4,000 electric vehicles in its fleet. As of September 2022, NYC had replaced around 4,050 gas-powered models with zero-emission electric vehicles.
NYC aims to be the nation’s most sustainable fleet
NYC aims to have the country’s most sustainable fleet through its Clean Fleet Plan. The program was initially created in 2015 to add 2,000 electric vehicles to its municipal fleet and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2025.
However, the city quickly achieved its EV targets, updating the program in September 2021. As of June 2021, NYC had over 3,000 plug-in or solar electric vehicles in use.
The city’s fleet consisted of several fully electric and hybrid models, including the Chevy Bolt and Nissan Leaf. Furthermore, NYC said it planned to increase funding for electric school buses, including a $30 million investment.
According to Columbia Climate School, NYC is (surprisingly) one of the most energy-efficient places in America, as the city has rolled out aggressive climate action plans and many people in the city walk or take mass transit.
To continue the momentum, NYC upped the target, calling for 4,000 electric vehicles to be added to its fleet by 2025, with all nonemergency cars to convert to EVs by 2040.
New York City electric vehicle fleet
It looks like NYC is well ahead of its plans again. After adding over 1,000 EVs in the past year, NYC may need to reconsider its goals again. The city added several innovative electric vehicles, such as electric vans, pickup trucks, garbage trucks, police vehicles, school buses, and more. A few examples of the EVs in use include:
- Over 200 Ford Mustang Mach E‘s are used chiefly for police purposes.
- Several different administrations are using almost 850 Chevy Bolts.
- The NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) ordered almost 300 Ford E Transit EV vans and is requesting a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup.
The city was even one of the first to add electric street sweepers (check these out!), courtesy of Ideanomics and Global Environmental Products.
DCAS Commissioner Dawn M. Pinnock said, regarding NYC’s success thus far:
We are committed to making our city government greener by accelerating our transition to an all-electric fleet. At DCAS, we are elated to meet our goal of 4,000 electric vehicles three years early. That’s three more years of emissions-free driving to protect the health of our planet for future generations.
NYC plans to continue expanding its EV fleet with several new additions, including:
- Seven electric garbage trucks
- Seven 100% electric street sweepers
- All electric buses for the NYC Department of Corrections
- Several electric box trucks and pickups for other citywide services
Most importantly, NYC will support the electric vehicle expansion by adding around 1,300 charging points for fleets, with 600 expected to be deployed in the next 18 months.
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WattEV has just opened the first electric truck charging depot in the US to use the new Megawatt Charge System, capable of delivering up to 1.2 megawatts of power, currently the highest-speed charger available in the US, along with solar and battery backup on-site and a unique partially grid-islanded setup.
WattEV says that its charge depot in Bakersfield, CA, includes the first MCS charger in North America, and the fastest as well. Tesla has a number of its own 750kW chargers deployed “behind-the-fence” in Pepsi and Tesla facilities, but this 1.2MW charger beats those in speed and is also publicly available.
MCS is a new charge standard being worked on by charging standards organization CharIN. The standard is close to being finished, though currently there aren’t really available MCS-capable trucks, or even UL-certified charging units.
As a result, WattEV’s installation is somewhat of an experiment. The site has 50 total chargers, split between 32 grid-tied 360kW CCS chargers on one side, and 3 1.2MW MCS and 15 240kW CCS chargers on the other side, attached to backup batteries and solar and fully grid-islanded.
That latter part is particularly interesting – WattEV got grants from the California Energy Commission to create this grid-islanded setup, wherein power for the chargers is fully provided by 5MW of on-site solar (which WattEV wants to expand to 25MW eventually) and 3MWh of battery backup.
WattEV could connect the setup to the grid, but between its grant from CEC, the lack of UL-certified MCS chargers, and delays that would have been caused in the permitting and interconnection process, it decided that grid-islanding half of the site would be the right decision for the time being.
The inclusion of an MCS charger promises the ability to fill a truck in the same time as a traditional truck rest stop. While trucks don’t currently have 1.2MW charging capability, WattEV wanted to be ready for when they do.
Notably, something many operators bring up is that they’re waiting for chargers before they start building or buying trucks. Here, however, we have an infrastructure provider out in the lead – building infrastructure before trucks are being built or purchased. In a world where operators have gotten used to using infrastructure as an excuse, WattEV seems uninterested in allowing them to continue to use that excuse.
Like WattEV’s other chargers, this one will be publicly available either via membership or scanning a credit card/QR code at the site. It’s near an industrial park in Bakersfield with several distribution centers and near the 99 freeway, which services the California central valley. WattEV also offers a “truck-as-a-service” model, wherein the company offers electric trucking at a set price with lower startup costs.
The charger could be of use for those distribution centers, bringing goods in from the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and also for traffic in the valley, as there are many local farming facilities and produce delivery services (for example, OK Produce in Fresno, which has committed to full zero emission operations).
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