⚡ Summary & Highlights Of TLC Hearing: Green Rides Initiative, Electrifying The TLC Fleet

Summary and video highlights from yesterday's TLC public hearing on proposal to require the vast majority of NYC for-hire vehicles to be EVs or WAVs by 2030

• TLC held public hearing on newly proposed EV (or WAV) mandate yesterday

• Disability / accessibility advocates were upset about newly proposed TLC mandate, believing it creates bad incentives, discouraging drivers from purchasing wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs)

• Environmental groups and EV-related businesses supported the issuance of *new* EV-only TLC Plates (or reissuance of unclaimed pandemic storage FHV Licenses)

  • Yellow taxi driver advocacy group NYTWA was against issuance of new EV-only TLC Plates or reissuance of unclaimed pandemic storage plates

  • Uber/Lyft driver advocacy group IDG called for any new or reissued EV-only TLC Plates to be made available to individual drivers first

• TLC drivers, some who own electric vehicles (EVs), and advocates believe TLC is underestimating financial and other burdens of NYC EV adoption

• We share official ~25 minute TLC Green Rides Initiative presentation and summarize over 1.5 hours of public testimony