West Vincent Township Leads With Hybrid Police Vehicle

WEST VINCENT TOWNSHIP, PA — West Vincent Township is serious about making sustainability work in real ways, and the latest action toward that is a new electric hybrid police vehicle in the Township.

"Thanks to the support of the West Vincent Township Sustainability Committee the police department has commissioned the first electric hybrid vehicle in the township and one of the first hybrid police vehicles in Chester County," the West Vincent Township Police Department said in an announcement.

The electric hybrid 2021 Ford Interceptor replaces one of the Department's old police vehicles. The Department called the purchase "a huge step forward in the Township’s Clean Energy transition."

West Vincent Township's Sustainability Work Plan outlines very specific actions the Township is taking in its transition into cleaner and greener energy use, on different fronts.

The Sustainability Plan includes an initiative to perform comprehensive energy audits on all township facilities and implement recommendations. Vehicles are included among the Township's "facilities," in the plan.

Earlier this year, The West Vincent Clean Energy Transition Team worked with the Hankin Group to begin installing electric vehicle chargers at the developer's Weatherstone Town Center near the intersections of Routes 100 and 401 in Chester Springs.

The Township's plan calls for an electric vehicle charging station at the Municipal Building among its initiatives.

View West Vincent Township's Sustainability Plan here.

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