Resources
California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program offers a free guide to fleet electrification, covering topics such as vehicle/infrastructure assessment, procurement strategies, incentives, fleet management, and best practices.
- City of Sacramento Fleet Sustainability Policy
- City of Ann Arbor Green Fleets Policy
- City of San Jose Green Fleet Policy
- Sample Alternative Fuel Vehicle Policy
This sample addendum to an existing policy intended to serve as a template to be adapted and adopted by local agencies with the goal of institutionalizing fleet electrification. Coming soon.
The Collaborative is partnership between Climate Mayors, the Electrification Coalition, Sourcewell (formerly NJPA) the National Auto Fleet Group and NCL Government Capital. It offers competitively priced purchasing and leasing options for a range of light-duty electric vehicles, as well as street sweepers and school buses. In addition to vehicle purchasing, the Collaborative offers charging station solutions from multiple vendors.
Through the Collaborative, the Electrification Coalition is also available to offer free support to local agencies exploring electric vehicles. You can contact them here or at EVfleets@electrificationcoalition.org
In support of California’s alternative fuel vehicle goals, the Department of General Services has many alternative fuel vehicles available to local agencies through its existing contracts. A list of the models available on the 2019 contract are available at the link above.
The MyFleetBuy tool, developed by Greenlight Labs and based on research completed at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, enables users to virtually compare potential EVs in their own fleet’s duty cycles to determine which models are the best fit and guide informed procurement decisions. This tool uses validated vehicle physics models to accurately model the energy required to operate an EV within your fleet.
As part of their fleet management solutions, GEOTAB offers an EV suitability assessment based on matching GEOTAB telematic data to real-world EV performance data.
This site contains reports and stories that discuss how municipalities across the country are structuring their fleet replacement and maintenance strategies, such as this Wisconsin town that is using leasing to stabilize its yearly budget and decrease its fleet’s average age, or these two midwestern departments using leasing to improve cash flows and decrease fuel usage across the fleet.
This online calculator allows users to compare the cost of buying vs leasing a single car. While this tool is limited to only one car at a time, it may provide some insight in deciding which structure best suits your fleet’s needs and budget.
More coming soon.- Argonne National Lab – Alternative Fuel Life-Cycle Environmental & Economic Transportation (AFLEET) Tool
For users interested in exploring TCO and emissions of a portion of their fleet in more detail, AFLEET provides detailed estimates of petroleum use, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollutant emissions and costs of ownership for light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles. It includes the ability to analyze on- and off-road vehicles.
The Electric Vehicle Explorer analyzes annual vehicle energy costs based on a user-defined commute pattern. It enables users to compare different EV models and may be a useful tool for Fleet Managers to explore specific models in detail. Overall, it is geared more towards individual users.
- PG&E – EV Savings Calculator
The EV Savings Calculator helps users pick an EV that fits their needs and provides resources for learning about incentives and rebate programs that can lower the total cost of ownership for EV owners.
- US DOE AFDC – Vehicle Cost Calculator
The Vehicle Cost Calculator helps users compare the total cost of ownership on a year-by-year basis across up to 8 models of cars. The calculator provides many pre-populated models and allows the user to input custom vehicle types.
- Dana – Fleet TCO Calculator
This TCO calculator is tailored towards medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleets; it allows users to make comparisons between diesel and full-electric vehicles of six different types, as well as to see the cost impacts on a fleet-wide basis.
GreenFlux is a provider of Smart Charging solutions. This page contains links to a webinar and a white paper that discuss smart charging, its pros/cons, and the results of the Electric Nation Project, which ran from 2016-2019.
EnelX is another provider of Smart Charging solutions. Towards the bottom of the linked page, they provide reports on three case studies done in partnership with various utilities. The Sacramento MUD case study takes a look at corporate fleets, the Hawaiian Electric case study looks at residential charging, and the Sonoma Clean Power case study focuses on demand shaping.
Though not a fleet-specific resource, we also recommend that California residents take a look at the CA Clean Vehicle Rebate Project for information on rebates, eligibility, data from other CA residents who purchased an eligible clean vehicle and received a rebate for it, and more.