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Are You Considering Fleet Electrification?
Our fleet electrification consulting practice helps fleet owners select the best alternatives for electrifying their fleets and provides tailored recommendations to drive sustainability forward.
Use our data and expertise to make the best decision and successfully electrify your fleet. Our fleet electrification consulting services help you save money, right-size your fleet, meet your emissions targets, and ensure you avoid costly mistakes, such as overpaying for vehicles or underinvesting in charging infrastructure.
Backed by DataDevelop the Business Case
Backed by DataDevelop the Business Case
Our approach to fleet electrification planning includes:
- Conducting an initial fleet assessment and fleet utilization analysis.
- Conducting a business case analysis on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis.
- Developing the infrastructure plan and charging strategy, including charger specifications and maintenance processes.
- Providing a clear transition roadmap that aligns with your goals and opportunities along with a transition timeline and investment plan.
Optimize ROIUnderstand Your Options
Optimize ROIUnderstand Your Options
Select the fleet electrification strategy that best meets your business goals.
Examples strategies include:
- Meeting Reduction Targets: Convert the minimum number of vehicles required to meet the emission reduction targets you set.
- Financial Sense Transition: Electrify all vehicles with a positive business case as they will save you money throughout their lifecycle.
- Climate Advocate Approach: Electrify your full vehicle fleet by using the savings from the vehicles with positive business cases to subsidize the remaining vehicles.
Tailored RecommendationsMake the Right Improvements to Your Fleet
Tailored RecommendationsMake the Right Improvements to Your Fleet
This is where the rubber hits the road (pun intended). Our fleet electrification consulting team ensures a successful transition by ensuring your operational and financial goals are aligned, and your support infrastructure is planned for.
Support infrastructure can include:
- Data Infrastructure: Telematics and reporting systems for tracking emissions reductions and benefits realization.
- Policies & Procedures: Maintenance and use policies, training programs, and change management processes.
- Charging Infrastructure: Developing the infrastructure plan and charging strategy, including charger specifications.
Partner with UsMove Forward with Fleet Electrification
Partner with UsMove Forward with Fleet Electrification
Organizations like yours can leverage our expertise, experience, and data-driven approach to fleet electrification. Our fleet electrification consulting practice has supported a variety vehicle fleets to make the switch, including specialty vehicles from fire trucks to garbage trucks, and everything in between.
Our approach can include:
- Generating dynamic emissions models to find scenarios that achieve the GHG emissions reduction targets across large and diverse fleets.
- Working with procurement and finance teams to smooth capital investments and build capital plans.
- Delivering final green fleet plans with key findings, clear paths to electrification, and capital plans to be presented to executive stakeholders.
- Finding and applying for government grants, subsidies, and loans related to both vehicle and charging infrastructure.
- Identifying renewable fuel and fleet optimization options for heavy vehicles that don’t have market-ready battery-electric alternatives.
Key Considerations
Key Considerations
Last minute tips for fleet electrification planning and management:
- Utilization is Critical
If you have low utilization of certain vehicles, consider creating a pooled or shared resource to minimize the number of assets needed. - Right-Size Individual Assets
Don’t fall into the trap of increasing standard vehicle size based on occasional requirements. Evaluate how often access to larger vehicles is needed and consider centralized or outsourced options where applicable. - Carefully Consider Your Charging Strategy
Finding the right mix of centralized charging and home charging can provide consistent access to infrastructure, address equity concerns, and ensure access to backup resources in case of emergency.
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