Transportation staff at the North Central Texas Council of Governments will walk the public through two pots of federal money for cleaner vehicles at a meeting at noon Monday, Nov. 9, at the agency's offices on Six Flags Drive in Arlington.
Residents can show up in person, stream the meeting at publicinput.com/nctcogNov26 or call 855-925-2801 and enter code 2384, according to the meeting notice, which Princeton posted to its city calendar.
Fast chargers
The latest application round of the Texas Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan selected 97 locations in North Central Texas to share $62 million in federal money for DC fast-charging stations, the notice says. Staff will explain how the North Texas awards fit into the larger state plan. The notice does not list the sites.
Replacing work trucks
Staff will also present the North Texas Zero Emissions Vehicles call for projects, which pays part of the cost when public or private fleets retire heavy-duty trucks that burn gasoline, diesel, propane or natural gas and swap in battery-electric trucks or ones powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
The meeting notice puts the available money at up to $55.4 million; the program's web page lists up to $54.8 million in rebates.
The program covers Class 6 and 7 work vehicles, such as box trucks, step vans, dump trucks, garbage trucks, street sweepers, utility trucks and transit buses. School buses are not eligible, though the agency encourages school districts to apply for other fleet vehicles. The old vehicle must be taken out of the fleet, and the replacement has to run mostly in the region.
