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New York City to invest $420M in electric vehicles and infrastructure; all-electric fleet by 2035

Green Car Congress

The City of New York will invest $420 million in electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, and alternative fuels to accelerate the transition to an all-electric municipal vehicle fleet. New York City operates nearly 30,000 vehicles, the largest municipal fleet in the country.

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FLO | AddEnergie deploying 120 EV chargers in New York City

Green Car Congress

FLO | AddEnergie has begun shipping 120 EV chargers out of its factory in Shawinigan, Québec, destined for FLO network’s first deployment in New York City. Of the total, 100 chargers will be installed at 34 public curbside locations over the coming months across all of New York’s five boroughs.

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2024 New York Auto Show Recap -- A West Side Bounce Back?

The Truth About Cars

Just because much of New York is easier to navigate by foot or public transit, there's still a strong market for cars in and around the Big Apple. Nissan, Infiniti, and Genesis all had events before I even touched down at LaGuardia. With that, auto-show season downshifts from major events until SEMA and LA in the fall.

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Volvo EX30 Makes North American Debut in New York City

Electric Cars Report

Volvo Cars continues its aggressive shift toward becoming a fully electric automaker by showing the all-new, fully electric Volvo EX30 for the first time in North America at a gala event in New York City.

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New York to invest $127.7 million Volkswagen settlement in clean vehicles

Green Car Congress

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that New York will utilize the $127.7 Covered vehicles include new buses, trucks, locomotives, ferries, tug boats, and cargo handling equipment, as well as the availability of electric vehicle charging equipment statewide. More than 150 people attended the public events.

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Tesla Semi heads to three-week peformance event to assess EV fleets

Teslarati

While there will be twenty-one commercial EVs at the event, the Semi seems to be the highlight of the entire event. The event will also be looking at things like total electric energy and fuel for all trucks on each day, and what that will mean in total energy usage once all Class 8 trucks are converted to EVs. I’d love to chat!

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New York access for all

Electric Auto Association

Mount Vernon is one of the biggest cities in New York and it’s also one of the most disadvantaged. When these communities plan their own Drive Electric events, then I’ll know I did something right,” Leitman mused. Hopefullly, they’ll take the ball and run with it.” I’m looking forward to asking them very real questions.”