Snohomish County looks to upgrade to electric vehicles
Snohomish County is looking to make its vehicle fleet greener starting next year.
A new plan would replace 96 of the 1,776 county-owned vehicles with electric versions as they approach the end of their useful life. Twenty-two of those would be swapped out in 2022, the rest following in the next four to six years.
About 20% of the county’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from fleet vehicles. In 2018, they were responsible for 10,342 metric tons of greenhouse gasses. That’s the weight of 1,900 Southern Resident orcas.
Snohomish County’s highway vehicles — including patrol cars and public works trucks — drove more than 8 million miles last year, guzzling 865,000 gallons of gas and diesel.
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