Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Dawn Pinnock with Mayor Eric Adams, announcing new electric vehicles being added to city’s fleet.The mayor was accompanied by city Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Dawn Pinnock, Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez and Julie Tighe, executive director of the New York League of Conservation Voters.
The types of electric vehicles the city will purchase with the grant money include 382 Chevrolet Bolts, 360 Ford E-Transit vans and 150 Ford F-150 E-Lightning pick-up trucks. A portion of those rides will go to the NYPD, Pinnock said, which has already replaced some of its patrol cars with EVs. Adams said DCAS is already well ahead of schedule with transitioning the city’s fleet to all electric vehicles by 2035 under theunveiled last year under former Mayor Bill de Blasio. As of this past September, he said, DCAS had converted 4,000 of the fleet’s vehicles to electric, reaching that benchmark three years ahead of schedule.