Making use of the technical domain expertise of GE Capital Fleet Services in its analysis, findings, and recommendations, the Electrification Coalition revealed a Fleet Electrification Roadmap, a groundbreaking new whitepaper on fleet electrification in the United States.
To accelerate conversion of the 16 million commercial, corporate, and government fleet vehicles on the road in the United States, the whitepaper provides a comprehensive analysis of the benefits and challenges of electric vehicle deployment and the policies. Assessing the potential impact of fleet electrification on transportation, energy security, and sustainability.
The Electrification Coalition is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group of business leaders committed to promoting policies and actions that facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles on a mass scale.
“This report and its findings come at the right time for the electric vehicle industry," said Robbie Diamond, president and CEO of the Electrification Coalition, in a press release. "Fleet purchases like the one GE announced just last week can help drive critical scale in manufacturing that will ultimately help drive down costs for the entire electric vehicle market. Fleet adoption is a major step toward overcoming challenges to widespread consumer acceptance of electric vehicles.”
With experts in the electric vehicle and fleet management industries, the Fleet Electrification Roadmap provides rigorous analysis and insights on electric vehicle deployment. Based on commercial fleet requirements, the study identifies opportunities for electric vehicle deployment and includes findings on total cost of ownership, lifecycle costs, infrastructure logistics, charging behavior, maintenance and repairs, electricity costs, emerging business models, case studies, and policy recommendations, the company announced.
In 2009, the coalition urged Administration to be Ambitious In Goals The Electrification Coalition today applauded the announcement of the U.S.-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, and urged the Obama administration to go even further in its efforts to support an electrified transportation system. The Initiative includes the creation of electric vehicle demonstration projects that are similar in concept to the Electrification Ecosystems that have been proposed by the Coalition.
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