All of New York City’s municipal vehicles will be fully electric by 2040

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In 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. 22 years later we landed on the moon.

So, our ambitious goal is to have NYC municipal cars, etc be electric in 20 years?

How about a plan for the next 5 years? China has 400,000 electric buses, for example.

NYC could probably do that if the state and federal governments would fund it. But taking the bus example: NYC Transit is broke and cutting service every year. Currently a good chunk of the buses in service are 30+ years old. Replacing the entire fleet in 5 years? Fuhgeddaboudit.

No one said you had to replace the entire fleet in 5 years.

I said how about a plan to do something within the next 5 years rather than a “plan” to do everything in 20 years.

Starting with buses should be doable because it has already been done on a large scale in China.

But any forward progress would be nice.

If they're pushing it this far back, I don't think we'll be seeing them in 2020 either. 2040 goals are feel good goals for today but are nonetheless meaningless.

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