Allentown to explore hybrid cop cars as city eyes EV pilot program

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The push to make Allentown’s vehicle fleet more efficient and eco-friendly could reach the city’s police department.

Allentown this month got $60,000 from the statewide Alternative Fuel Incentive Grant program to help it buy electric vehicles. And it landed a grant of just over $60,000 to install eight chargers to be used by electric city-inspection vehicles.

The city last spring spent about $45,000 to buy an all-electric 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E for Mayor Matt Tuerk to use as his official vehicle…

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