File #: Int 0676-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the taxi and limousine commission to conduct a study and report on increasing the use of electric for-hire vehicles and installing new charging infrastructure
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 3/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the taxi and limousine commission to conduct a study and report on increasing the use of electric for-hire vehicles and installing new charging infrastructure
Sponsors: Amanda Farías, James F. Gennaro, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) to conduct a study on the costs, challenges, and opportunities related to increasing the use of electric for-hire vehicles and installing new charging infrastructure and to report on the findings of the study, including recommendations for incentive programs to encourage the use of electric for-hire vehicles and recommended locations for new electric vehicle charging stations. The bill would also require the TLC to set targets for issuance of licenses to electric vehicles and installation of charging infrastructure and report twice a year on progress towards those targets.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 676, 2. Int. No. 676, 3. March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 19, 2024

Int. No. 676

 

By Council Members Farías, Gennaro, Gutiérrez, Louis and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the taxi and limousine commission to conduct a study and report on increasing the use of electric for-hire vehicles and installing new charging infrastructure

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The taxi and limousine commission shall conduct a study on costs, challenges, and opportunities related to increasing the use of electric for-hire vehicles and installing new charging infrastructure. No later than 1 year after the effective date of this local law, the taxi and limousine commission shall submit a report on the study’s findings to the mayor and the speaker of the council. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to:

1. An estimate of the total number of electric vehicle charging stations required to transition all licensed for-hire vehicles to electric vehicles;

2. How the availability of overnight charging impacts the number of rides for-hire vehicle drivers can provide and the income of drivers;

3. An assessment of whether and how additional electric vehicle charging stations in the borough of Manhattan would affect congestion and traffic flow;

4. Recommended locations for additional electric vehicle charging stations based on the residences of for-hire vehicle drivers;

5. An analysis of the cost and feasibility of installing electric vehicle charging stations in the locations that the taxi and limousine commission recommends;

6. The estimated utilization of any charging locations that the taxi and limousine commission recommends;

7. The average fuel and maintenance costs of an electric for-hire vehicle over the average time period that an electric vehicle is used as a for-hire vehicle compared to the average fuel and maintenance costs of an internal combustion engine for-hire vehicle over the average time period that an internal combustion engine vehicle is used as a for-hire vehicle;

8. The average weekly and monthly cost for a for-hire vehicle driver to rent a for-hire electric vehicle licensed by the taxi and limousine commission compared to the weekly and monthly cost to rent a licensed for-hire internal combustion vehicle; and

9. An analysis of potential incentive programs to encourage the adoption of electric for-hire vehicles, including the issuance of additional for-hire vehicle licenses when internal combustion engine for-hire vehicles are replaced by electric for-hire vehicles.

§ 2. Chapter 5 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-557 to read as follows:

§ 19-557 Electric vehicles and charging stations. a. The commission shall establish targets for the issuance of vehicle licenses to electric vehicles and the installation of charging infrastructure. Each January 1 and July 1, the commission shall submit a report to the mayor and the speaker of the council on progress towards these targets. Such report shall include the following:

1. The number and location of electric vehicle charging stations installed since the preceding report, disaggregated by charging level, borough, and whether the charger was installed at a gas station; and

2. The number of vehicle licenses issued by the commission for electric vehicles since the preceding report.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately. SA/EH

LS #14934, 14874, 13172

3/6/2024 11:00 AM