Mayor Adams announced a $77 million plan, which would bring 180 new electric school buses to the city’s streets as well as an electric charging station in Hunts Point, on Monday, March 18, 2024.
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A new environmentally friendly plan for the city recently announced by Mayor Eric Adams aims to nearly quadruple the current fleet of electric school buses and also create an electric vehicle charging station in the South Bronx, in an attempt to grow the city’s green economy while reducing its transportation emission levels.
On Monday, March 18, Mayor Eric Adams announced a $77 million plan which would add 180 new electric school buses to New York City’s existing fleet and also develop a new charging depot at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center for electric vehicles.
The addition of 180 electric school buses will put cleaner, more environmentally friendly vehicles on the road and eventually result in cleaner, less-polluted air as the Bronx and the city continues to make adjustments in response to the global climate crisis.
The plan to also develop the new electric charging depot in Hunts Point, which would charge over 7,000 vehicles each year, was announced by Mayor Adams in his 2024 State of the City address back in January as part of the plan to grow the city’s green economy.
Once fully constructed, the nation’s first electric charging hub will be able to charge over 3,000 trucks as well as 4,000 passenger cars each year, which would eliminate an estimated 5.1 million tons of carbon dioxide.
The investment of $77 million in competitive grants from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which authorizes a total of up to $108 billion for public transportation nationwide, includes a $61.1 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Grant Program, along with a $15 million grant from the United States Department of Transportation Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grant Program….
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