{"id":20509,"date":"2022-08-25T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2022-08-25T07:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T11:57:53","slug":"brick-adding-first-electric-vehicles-to-its-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/08\/brick-adding-first-electric-vehicles-to-its-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Adding First Electric Vehicles to Its Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20512\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20512\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chevrolet Bolt (Credit: Greg Gjerdingen\/ Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chevrolet Bolt (Credit: Greg Gjerdingen\/ Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township officials this week voted to purchase the first all-electric vehicles for its municipal fleet.<\/p>\n<p>As EVs grow in popularity, government agencies have been encouraged to purchase the environmentally-friendly vehicles through purchasing cooperative agreements. The Brick Township council unanimously voted in favor of purchasing two EVs from one such cooperative, the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Through the state contract, Brick will purchase two new 2023 Chevrolet Bolt cars for $26,088 each \u2013 a total of $52,176. The cars will be sourced from a fixed-price contract with Mall Chevrolet, of Cherry Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The EVs will be utilized by the township\u2019s park security officers.<\/p>\n<p>The council also voted to purchase two new heavy vehicles for the township. The council is seeking bids for a rear-loading refuse collection vehicle and two automated side-loading refuse vehicles (often known as \u201crobo-trucks\u201d).<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/08\/brick-adding-first-electric-vehicles-to-its-fleet\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township officials this week voted to purchase the first all-electric vehicles for its municipal fleet. As EVs grow in popularity, government agencies have been encouraged to purchase the environmentally-friendly vehicles through purchasing cooperative agreements. The Brick Township council unanimously voted in favor of purchasing two EVs from one such cooperative, the Educational Services Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[24,4761,4429,4484],"class_list":["post-20509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-chevrolet-volt","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022_Chevrolet_Bolt_EV_United_States_front_view.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}