Contractor purchased fourteen electric trucks. Ten were deployed to the Bureau of Parking Enforcement and four were deployed to the Los Angeles Zoo fleet.
514000.00
The Parking Enforcement supervisors covered an area within the City of Los Angeles. The four trucks assigned to the Zoo were driven in the zoo area. The driving habits and mileages logged by the supervisors was not known. It would cover areas within a 20-mile radius (based upon 40-50 mile charging capability) of their garaging sites. The visitors to the zoo, and the animals contained therein, benefited from the silent and clean operation of the trucks assigned there. The neighborhoods through which the supervisors traveled in the course of business would receive the same benefits.
Annual estimated emissions - 1,680 pounds per year. Total emissions estimated at 11,760 pounds.
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