Electrifying City vehicles and maintaining necessary charging infrastructure will reduce our carbon emissions and harmful air pollution. It will allow us to limit our reliance on fossil fuels and shift towards cleaner energy sources. 

In support of this initiative, the City has done the following:

• Certified 100% of the Light Duty Fleet Techs to Level 1 Electric Vehicle Techs
• Researched options for replacing the City's light duty vehicles with electric or hybrid vehicles
• Purchased 83 fully electric vehicles, 13 plug-in hybrid vehicles, and 134 hybrid vehicles for the City's fleet
• Conducted an analysis of the electric vehicle charging needs for current and future City vehicles
• Developed a plan to install a City-wide electric vehicle charging network to include the installation of over 100 Fleet vehicle charging ports at major depots and select satellite locations
• Installed 16 Level 2 electric vehicle charging ports and 8 Level 3 charging ports
• Secured CIP funding to begin the build out of the charging network with plans to install 30 charging ports over the next 12 months
• Fleet partnered with the Durham Police Department Executive Command Staff to create the next generation of patrol vehicles that are both functional and fuel efficient as a replacement for the current non-hybrid patrol vehicles. A limited number of vehicles are on-site now with 77 on order from Ford. These vehicles are expected to save 838 gallons of fuel and 7.4 metric tons of CO2 per vehicle each year. These vehicles are an interim step until viable battery electric vehicles are available.
• Introduced R99 renewable diesel fuel into the fuel supply, with close to 300,000 gallons distributed to date. This has avoided 2,293 metric tons of CO2.