Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative Sees Quintupled Commitments

On Thursday, at the second-annual Climate Mayors Summit in Honolulu, 127 cities and 15 counties from across 38 states joined the Climate Mayors Electric Vehicle Purchasing Collaborative, committing to purchase more than 2,100 total electric vehicles (EVs) by the end of 2020.

Launched in September 2018, the collaborative is a partnership between Climate Mayors, the Electrification Coalition and Sourcewell, a national transit fleet transition program.

The collaborative has announced plans to place a competitive bid on electric school buses by the end of this year, which will enable all electric school bus manufacturers to offer any public school system in the country access to equal, competitive prices, the partners say. Sourcewell will be releasing a national solicitation for electric school buses by the end of the year.