{"id":188135,"date":"2026-04-07T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188135\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:49:06","slug":"city-of-new-york-reaches-ev-adoption-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188135\/","title":{"rendered":"City of New York reaches EV adoption milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">Overall, it means that City enforcement agencies now have more than 1000 electrified vehicles in their possession, following the acquisition of 70 EVs for NYC Parks and 33 for DSNY. What\u2019s more, these agencies \u2013 along with the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) \u2013 have taken the opportunity to announce an even bolder ambition of a fully electric law enforcement fleet by 2030, five years ahead of target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">In total, 781 \u2018law enforcement\u2019 vehicles are now battery-electric, with the remaining 231 being plug-in hybrids, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2023\/01\/05\/new-york-city-buys-another-1000-electric-vehicles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2023 order of 1000 vehicles<\/a>. It\u2019s worth mentioning that \u2018law enforcement\u2019 (which here refers to 15 government agencies, not just the police department) accounts for the largest proportion of the city\u2019s fleet, with 11,000 enforcement vehicles in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">Models currently in use include the Chevy EV Blazer, Chevy Bolt, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Ford Lightning, Chevy Silverado EV, and Ford E-Transit. Many of these vehicles require specialised equipment including bulletproofing, lights and sirens, radio and outfitting, and interior partitions. The City has also highlighted charging access and emergency backup power as \u2018critical hurdles\u2019 for reliable performance in emergency response situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">DCAS Commissioner Yume Kitasei said: \u201cFor the first time in our history, New York City now operates more than 1,000 electric vehicles in law enforcement service. By investing in clean, modern fleet technology, we are improving efficiency, reducing emissions, and ensuring that city agencies have the tools they need to serve New Yorkers safely and effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">Keith Kerman, NYC Chief Fleet Officer and Deputy Commissioner at DCAS, added: \u201cWe are showing EVs can work in some of the most challenging applications and assignments including law enforcement and emergency response. We have more to do but 1,000 EVs in law enforcement is an important, nation-leading, threshold and we thank our agency partners across city government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \">All of this forms part of a wider push by NYC officials to adopt electrified fleet units; it now has a total of 10,500 electrified vehicles, including 5,780 battery-electric vehicles and 4,600 \u2018hybrid\u2019 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dcas\/news\/006-26\/city-new-york-surpasses-1-000-electric-vehicles-law-enforcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall, it means that City enforcement agencies now have more than 1000 electrified vehicles in their possession, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-188135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}