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Supervisors adopt amendment to require city fleet passenger vehicles be zero‑emission; council debates emergency charging concerns
Summary
The Board passed an ordinance to require all newly procured passenger vehicles in the city fleet to be zero‑emission, with a goal of converting all passenger vehicles by Dec. 31, 2022; supervisors amended procurement sequencing and debated charging resilience during power outages.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 16 passed, on first reading, an ordinance amending the administrative and environment codes to require that any new passenger vehicle procured for the city fleet be a zero‑emission vehicle when feasible and that all passenger vehicles in the city fleet be zero‑emission by Dec. 31, 2022, absent a waiver. The change was adopted with an amendment about how departments prioritize replacement of vehicles.
Supervisor Katie Tang, who led the measure, offered an amendment directing departments to “make best efforts to replace vehicles in order of age, such that the oldest light duty vehicles in the department’s fleet are replaced when the department purchases replacement light duty vehicles unless compelling…
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