⚡ TLC Says ~45% Of 400 EV Plates Went To Corps, Then Draws Odd Conclusion
TLC says "over 100,000" applied for 1,000 *new* EV TLC Plates, which shows immense demand for EVs. In reality, regulator is mischaracterizing dynamic, while making taxi medallion industry very nervous
NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission Chair David Do remains confident 🤔 about the release of 1,000 *new* EV FHV Licenses (a/k/a TLC Plates), his Commission oversaw this month.
Chair Do states only 174 of the 1,000 new TLC Plates went to business entities. Given the first 600 EV FHV License allocation was reserved only for individual TLC drivers, Do essentially concedes that nearly 45% of yesterday’s allocation went to corporate entities 🤷♀️.
“According to the TLC, 826 of the new plates went to individual drivers while 174 were registered to business entities.”
Drivers will not be happy about that stat and as we’ve argued, the City & TLC missed out on a multi-million $ budget opportunity related to corporate allocations of EV TLC Plates, which would have been viewed as a more equitable process by many.
We also thought another noteworthy development was journalist Evan Simko-Bednarski at the New York Daily News, seems to have become a beat reporte…
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