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Taking Charge
How Atlanta leads with electric vehicles
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stations, streamlined permitting for EV
charging equipment installation and low
electricity rates all contribute.
This success comes despite the decision by
the Georgia state legislature to repeal a $5,000
tax credit toward the purchase of EVs. But
while the state stalls, the City of Atlanta moves
forward to become a national leader on EVs.
Our initiatives include:
• Adding 60 EVs and plug-in hybrids
to the city’s fleet, with the accompanying
charging infrastructure, through an innovative
public-private partnership that saves the city
money on our fleet operations;
• Adding five Neighborhood Electric
Vehicles (NEV) to service the BeltLine — two
for the Police’s PATEI Force, two for the Fire
Department’s EMC unit, and one for Parks
and Recreation;
• Creating a one-year fellowship
position housed in the Office of Sustainability
that will focus on expanding low-emission
vehicle opportunities in the city in partnership
with the Electrification Coalition, a
nonpartisan, not-for-profit group committed
to policies that facilitate the deployment of
electric vehicles on a mass scale;
• Plans to add 100 EV charging spaces
at the airport parking decks, plus 300 spaces
by end of 2017.
As a result, Atlanta now has one of the
largest municipal electric fleets in the country,
and we’re not slowing down. The city is
working closely with partners such as the
Clean Cities Coalition and Georgia Power
Company to expand our network of charging
stations. Georgia Power is a strong advocate
for EVs and even donated the city’s first EV
car to our fleet (affectionately dubbed the
“PoLeaf” since it’s used by APD to patrol the
BeltLine).
With more millennials moving to Atlanta
and growing our workforce, we’re seeing
greater interest in alternative commute
options. In Mayor Kasim Reed’s Office of
Sustainability, we’re working to ensure that
these options are not only viable, but all the
more practical and desirable. We hope to soon
be at the point where saying “fill ‘er up” is
as much of an anachronism as “hang up the
phone.” Atlanta’s future is calling; let’s accept
the charge. 03
Stephanie Stuckey Benfield is director of the
City of Atlanta Mayor’s Ojfce of Sustainability.
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Drive. Charge. Repeat.
That’s the commuting routine for many
metropolitan Atlanta drivers of electric
vehicles. In fact, FleetCarma, an EV fleet
management and analytics company, recently
named our city one of the top 10 electric
vehicle (EV) markets in the country. What
makes Atlanta a leader in this space? Our
extensive public charging network, business
tax credits toward the purchase of charging
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