Tesla has secured an electric vehicle contract from the city of Baltimore worth about $5 million, city officials said.
The City of Baltimore is aiming for net carbon neutrality by 2045, and one of its first initiatives is to electrify its vehicle fleet.
We reported The They bought electric school buses and even an electric wheel loader.
Now they are buying Tesla vehicles for city employees.
The city put out a $5 million electric vehicle contract and two companies submitted bids, including Tesla, which won the contract.
Local media outlet Baltimore Fishbowl reported:
The city has been buying electric vehicles since 2018, but the recent action on June 5 marked the first time the city council voted to buy vehicles from Tesla. It was also the first time Tesla responded to a request for proposals from automakers looking to sell vehicles to Baltimore.
Officials have not yet revealed how many Tesla vehicles will be part of the deal, and orders have not yet been placed, but they will include both Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. The order could easily total over 100 electric vehicles.
This is good news for Tesla. The company has recently invested more heavily in fleet sales, including internationally.
We have previously reported that Tesla vehicles were recently approved for purchase by government fleets in China.
However, it was not all good news. A large pharmacy chain in Germany that used Tesla vehicles announced that it would no longer buy electric vehicles from Tesla because it believed that CEO Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump was undermining Tesla’s mission to accelerate the rise of sustainable energy.
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