Electrifying a fleet: The big issues

Over the past two years, fleet decision-makers have become quite accustomed to virtual meetings via Teams or Zoom, but there’s no substitute for meeting face-to-face when you truly want to discuss the challenges you face and the solutions you are considering.

So Fleet News assembled a group of fleet managers for a roundtable discussion about all the elements of electrifying a fleet.

Responsible for running anywhere between a couple of hundred and almost 70,000 cars, vans and HGVs, in rural areas and cities, the delegates are at different stages of transitioning their vehicles to zero tailpipe emission motoring.

Sponsored by ChargePoint, the roundtable took place at Fanhams Hall in Hertfordshire.

Fleet News: How are you making the case for electrification?

Leroy Thomas, fleet manager, Affinity Water: We’re a water company and caring for our environment is part of what we are all about. As an industry we have made a commitment to be net carbon zero by 2030, and as a company we want our commercial vehicles, as they drive around our communities, to be seen as green vehicles.