Electric Vehicle Roadmap - Goal 1

Further reduce the County's fleet of gas-powered vehicles

Targeted Outcome

Increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the County's fleet to 501 vehicles by 2027.

Overview

County EV Fleet

The County plans for fleet efficiency through the Climate Action Plan, 2020-2030 County Operations Strategic Sustainability Plan, and Green Fleet Action Plan, which establishes targets and actions to reduce the County’s fleet emissions from more than 4,500 heavy- and light-duty vehicles.

The EV Roadmap identified policy changes to three Board Policies (H-1, H-2, and F-22) to provide greater purchasing power to aid in the conversion of fleet vehicles in accordance with vehicle replacement schedules, and allow for negotiations with lessors to consider installing charging infrastructure in non-County owned facilities.

The EV Roadmap plans for the County to convert 250 fleet gas-powered vehicles to EVs by 2025, convert an additional 251 vehicles by 2027, and install all necessary EV charging infrastructure to accommodate the EV fleet. In total, the County fleet will have 501 EVs by 2027.

Accomplishments

  • The Department of General Services (DGS) hired a new, full-time Fleet Coordinator in 2021 to manage the transition to EVs across all County departments and support implementation of the EV Roadmap.
  • Installed 29 EV charging stations for fleet vehicles at County facilities in 2024 for a total of 266 fleet charging stations.

County Fleet

248

EVs in use as of December 2024
  • Added 83 new EVs to the County fleet in 2024, bringing its total number to 248 EVs in use. An additional 117 EVs are on order and expected to be in service in 2025.
  • Updated the Green Fleet Action Plan in September 2023, incorporating strategies to initiate the conversion of medium-duty and heavy-duty (MD/HD) fleet vehicles to EVs or hydrogen fuel.
  • The County established the “Charge on the Go” program, in partnership with ChargePoint, to allow County employees to charge County EV fleet vehicles at any ChargePoint charging station, opening more than 1,000 additional charging stations in the San Diego region for use by County vehicles when in the field.
  • The San Diego County Library (SDCL) added four all-electric mobile outreach vans to provide expanded mobile library services and other resources to residents and students throughout the region.

119 EV charging stations at County Operations Center

All-electric mobile outreach vans

County’s EV Fleet