NYC and LA Are Teaming Up to Fight for EVs
New York City is not a car town. But pay attention as you walk, bike, or, sure, drive around the country’s most populous city, and you might notice a car trend: an increasing number of its vehicles are electric. The city government operates some 5,800 EVs, plus 4,700 hybrid vehicles—Parks Department pickups, Police Department crossover SUVs, school buses, paramedic response vehicles, even some hulking garbage trucks. A local law requires the city to transition its entire light- and medium-duty fleet to batteries by 2035 and its trucks by 2038.
Los Angeles County, a car town, has its own EV goals: 100 percent fleet electrification by 2045, which would require replacing all 20,000 of the fleet’s vehicles. With just 600 electric vehicles and 350 plug-ins so far, officials have plenty of work to do.
So on Thursday, the country’s most-populous city announced it would band together with the country’s most-populous...
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