Electric Vehicle Roadmap - Goal 1
Further reduce the County's fleet of gas-powered vehicles
Targeted Outcome
Increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the County's fleet to 501 vehicles by 2027.
Overview
The County County plans for fleet efficiency through the 2018 Climate Action Plan, 2020-2030 County Operations Strategic Sustainability Plan, and Green Fleet Action Plan, which establishes targets and actions to reduce the County’s fleet emissions from more than 4,400 heavy- and light-duty vehicles.
The EV Roadmap identifies policy changes to three Board Policies (H-1, H-2, and F-22) to provide greater purchasing power to aid in the conversion of fleet vehicles in accordance with vehicle replacement schedules, and allow for negotiations with lessors to consider installing charging infrastructure in non-County owned facilities.
The EV Roadmap plans for the County to convert 250 fleet gas-powered vehicles to EVs by 2025, convert an additional 251 vehicles by 2027, and install all necessary EV charging infrastructure to accommodate the EV fleet. In total, the County fleet will have 501 EVs by 2027.
Accomplishments
- Board policies amended in October 2019:
- The Department of General Services (DGS) hired a new, full-time Fleet Coordinator in 2021 to manage the transition to EVs across all County departments and support implementation of the EV Roadmap.
- Installed 36 EV charging stations for fleet vehicles at County facilities in 2023 for a total of 239 fleet charging stations.
County
Fleet
165
EVs in use as of December 2023
- Added 66 new EVs to the County fleet in 2023, bringing its total number to 165 EVs in use. An additional 156 EVs are on order and expected to be in service in 2024.
- Updated the Green Fleet Action Plan in September 2023, incorporating strategies to initiate the conversion of medium-duty and heavy-duty (MD/HD) fleet vehicles to EVs or hydrogen fuel.
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The County established the “Charge on the Go” program, in
partnership with ChargePoint, to allow County employees to charge
County EV fleet vehicles at any ChargePoint charging station,
opening more than 1,000 additional charging stations in the San
Diego region for use by County vehicles when in the field.
- The San Diego County Library (SDCL) retired two diesel-fueled buses mobile libraries and will be replacing them with four all-electric mobile outreach vans, to start operations in Fall 2024. These vans will provide expanded mobile library services and other resources to residents and students throughout the region.
119 EV charging stations at County Operations Center
All-electric mobile outreach vans
County’s EV Fleet
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