Best Practice Action 13.6
GreenStep City Best Practices: Transportation
Efficient City Fleets No. 13
Implement a city fleet investment, operations and maintenance plan.
Best Practice Action Detail
Best Practice Action 6
Retrofit city diesel engines or install auxiliary power units and/or electrified parking spaces, utilizing Project GreenFleet or the like.
- Despite high initial cost, battery-electric buses deliver lowest life-cycle costs to city transit fleets.
- Project GreenFleet is a collaborative effort, led by Environmental Initiative, with business, government agencies and non-profit organizations, to improve air quality and protect public health by reducing emissions from Minnesota's diesel-fueled heavy construction vehicles.
- What’s an auxiliary power unit (APU)? See Electric auxiliary power units as truck driver retention equipment (Fleet Equipment Mag, 2020)
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Retrofit several city diesel engines. Report participation of businesses and involvement in the U.S. EPA's SmartWay Transport program under BPA 23.3. |
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Retrofit all exhaust systems of city heavy-duty diesel truck models with diesel oxidation catalysts or filters. |
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Install at least one auxiliary power unit or electrified parking space. |
Who's doing it
Coon Rapids -
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Year action initially completed: 2020
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The City has installed one electric vehicle charging station 2020 at City Hall, as well as one charging station at the City Ice Arena.
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Colleen Sinclair (City staff) | csinclair@coonrapidsmn.gov | 763-767-6485
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Edina -
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Year action initially completed: 2021
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As part of the City's (Green) Fleet Purchasing Policy, listed in Phase 2--Purchase Clean Technology, the Fire Department (via goals) aims to adopt new technology, including the installation of auxiliary power units (APUs) to their fleet vehicles to aid in energy efficiency.
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Grace Hancock (City Staff) | ghancock@edinamn.gov | (952)826-1621
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Brooklyn Center -
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All new mobile engines and generators are replaced with Tier 4 Diesel engines
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Andrew Hogg (City staff) | ahogg@ci.brooklyn-center.mn.us | 763-569-3327
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Saint Paul -
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The City of Saint Paul has worked with Project GreenFleet and Donaldson in order to retrofit trucks with DOC units in order to reduce particulate emissions.
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Austin -
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Palmer Bus Service retrofitted about 20 buses, contacted City, Utilities, and County to get vehicle inventory
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This is in progress at the time of this post.
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Janet Anderson (Community volunteer) | janetanderson2840@gmail.com | 5072190680
Partners: Palmer Bus Service, Mower County, Austin Utilities, Project Green Fleet
Burnsville -
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Burnsville participates in Project GreenFleet. To date, 4 city diesel engines have been retrofitted. Eleven engines have systems ordered and these will be installed in the near future. Within the next few months, every city vehicle that is less than Tier 3 will have an upgraded emission system.
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Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe -
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Leech lake has retrofitted 65 buses, 25 DOCs, 2 DMFs and 4 re-powers.
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Brandy Toft (Community volunteer) | air@lldrm.org | 218-335-7429
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Maplewood -
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Through the grant Clean Diesel Grant from the MPCA, Maplewood was able to retrofit four of the city's older diesel engine trucks. This will help fund for the purchase and installation of oxidation catalysts as of summer 2011. The city has also switched their diesel fleet from B2 biodiesel to a B5 biodiesel mixture in the winter with B10 biodiesel in the summer.
Fleet will be replacing all older diesel trucks for newer vehicles that have pre-installed Oxidation Catalysts within the next two years.
Fleet will be replacing all older diesel trucks for newer vehicles that have pre-installed Oxidation Catalysts within the next two years.
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Scott Schultz (City staff) | scott.schultz@ci.maplewood.mn.us | (651) 249-2430
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Rochester -
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Green Fleet a few years back and retro fitted 8 pre- filter Detroits Diesels. Since then we have updated the fleet with all new diesel technologies with filters as standard. The 2010 also have an after burn system using urea. The fleet uses B5 5% soybean.
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Anthony Knauer (City staff) | tknauer@rochestermn.gov | 3282401
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Woodbury -
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As of May 2013, Woodbury is in the process of using the MPCA DERA (Diesel Emissions Reduction Act) grant to retrofit four dump trucks with an up-graded exhaust muffler.
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Jennifer McLoughlin (City staff) | jmcloughlin@ci.woodbury.mn.us | 651-714-3522
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Eden Prairie -
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Year action initially completed: 2023
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The city has installed 8 public Level 2 charging ports across a number of heavily utilized city parks and facilities for use by the public. The city has also installed 24 Level 2 charging ports to support electric city fleet vehicles now and in the future.
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Descriptive links: https://www.edenprairie.org/community/sustainable-eden-prairie/energy/electric-vehicles
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Jennifer Fierce (City Staff) | jfierce@edenprairie.org | 952-949-8313
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