AGENCY TESTIMONY
Intro 676: Study on electrifying the TLC-licensed fleet
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Commissioner Do discusses Intro 676, which would require TLC to conduct a study and issue a report on the costs and challenges of electrifying the TLC-licensed fleet. He outlines the progress already made in this area and the TLC's current efforts.
- TLC's Green Rides initiative requires high-volume for-hire services to dispatch 100% of trips to electric or wheelchair accessible vehicles by 2030
- The commission has published two electrification reports, with the latest addressing many questions raised in the proposed bill
- TLC is working with various partners to ensure charging infrastructure keeps pace with the growing number of electric vehicles
David Do
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Intro six seventy six would require TLC to conduct a study and issue a report on the costs and challenges of electrifying the TLC licensed fleet.
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TLC's green rides initiatives, adopted in October 2023, requires high volume for hire services, currently Lyft and Uber, to dispatch 100% of trips, to electric vehicles or wheelchair accessible vehicles by 2030 with annual benchmarks increasing until then.
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I'm proud to note that more than a year ahead of schedule on this effort, by the end of twenty twenty four, about 20% of trips that were dispatched were EVs or wheelchair accessible vehicles, outpacing the 15% required in 2025.
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But I recognize that we have a long way to go and as a city and as a country in electrifying the transportation sector, especially when it comes to challenging infrastructure.
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An all a government approach along with private investment is needed to ensure that infrastructure keeps up with demand.
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To help inform our public and private sector partners, TLC has recently published two electrification reports.
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The first in 2022 called Charged Up and the latest called Electrification in Motion released in September 2024.
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With the most recent report developed after intro June was introduced with a deliberate eye towards many of the questions that the bill, would direct TLC to address.
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Electrification in Motion analyzes data generated by the fleet of more than 10,000 EVs now performing trips and documents the rapid expansion of charging investments since the GreenRides initiative launched.
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As discussed in the report, GreenRides is already having its desired effect by spurring new charging infrastructure, including more than 200 new fast chargers stalls from Tesla, Revel, a DOT fast charging site in The Bronx, and an upcoming dramatic expansion of the DOT's curbside level two network in the neighborhoods where TLC drivers live.
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As documented in the report, while not an infrastructure provider, TLC has worked closely with the public and private sector partners, including other city agencies, Con Edison, the Port Authority, and companies like Tesla and Revel.
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We will continue to advise them on how best to ensure the charging infrastructure keeps pace with TLC licensed EVs, including by sharing data where appropriate, especially with other city agencies like DOT.
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To this end, alongside the report, we published a new interactive driver residence map that partners can use to inform their plans for new charging.
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We hope that that voluntary reports TLC has published, in addition to the EV metrics posted on our fact book, tools like the interactive driver residence map and the analysis of EV infrastructure in our annual license review report and the analysis of EV driver expenses in the expense report we recently commissioned addressed many of the concerns raised by six seventy six.
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But we would be happy to further discuss how TLC can even be more transparent about the EV landscape as it relates to TLC licensed vehicles.