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.
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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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 20.9 ms ] threadSo, 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.
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.