A proposed climate action plan for Manteca calls for the city to set the stage for 20 percent of the cars driven by Manteca residents to be electric in five years and 55 percent by the year 2045.

The state mandated local climate plan — that has been developed with the help of a citizens advisory committee — will be before the City Council for adoption in the coming months,

The city, per the plan, would set the stage for those goals to be reached by taking steps to require the installation of EV chargers at commercial locations and new residential projects.

Among the EV charger related goals in the plan are:

* Targeting the installation of EV charging stations capable of charging electric trucks along the Highway 99 and 120 Bypass corridors.

*Seeking funds to support electric vehicle charging technology.

 *Requiring charging stations as part of new development.

*Updating the Municipal Code to require identify potential sites for  electric vehicle charging stations within the city limits.

*Targeting the installation of at least five electric vehicle charging stations by the year 2030 and at least 10 by the year 2045.

*Establishing targets by 2025 for the number of EV charging stations installed at public parking areas.

*Requiring the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at all new municipal facilities that include vehicle parking.

*Requiring the city to identify existing municipal facilities where electric vehicle charging stations could be installed.

*Exempting EVs from payment of parking fees to encourage use of EVs within the city should the city construct or operate areas with paid parking.

Some of the proposals are already being put in motion in recently approved plans for new apartment complexes.

 Manteca already has three Tesla Supercharging stations — by Bass Pro Shops, Sizzler, and Target — and a fourth charging complex being installed behind Applebee’s.

One more such station and the 2030 goal of at least five electric charging station complexes by 2030 will be met.

 Other charging stations attached to residential projects are already in place.

To the east of Bass Pro Shops at The Atherton, a 428-unit apartment complex, there are roughly double the number than at the Tesla location to the west of Bass Pro Shops.

It is one of four apartment complexes in Manteca that currently boast they have EV chargers as amenities.

Living Spaces, on Atherton Drive west of Union Road, doesn’t have an EV charger in sight but it could easily become the biggest location to charge an electric vehicle.

That’s because 14 percent of its 456 parking spaces — 64 — have been prewired for the installation of EV chargers.

As EV numbers grow, so do the places to charge them including in Manteca.

When the  Circle K convenience store with 12 fueling stations is built on the southeast corner of Union and Lathrop roads it will include five EV chargers.

Manteca has come a long way since the first EV chargers in the city were installed as part of the $7.3 million transit station built in 2013 at Moffat Boulevard and South Main Street. Those chargers are still the only public ones that get their electricity from solar panels that were installed over 51 of the complex’s 100 parking spaces.

But, as the city’s climate action notes, it is not enough.

The climate action plan is the city’s blueprint for its overall efforts for Manteca to reach state imposed greenhouse gas reductions.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com