Background Information
U.S. Government Clean Fleet Guide
California Air Resources Board (CARB) Available Documents
- Manufacturers’ Advisory Correspondence (“MAC”) # 2006-03
- California Exhaust Emission Standards and Test Procedures for 2005 and Subsequent Model Hybrid Electric Vehicles, in the Passenger Car, Light-Duty Truck and Medium-Duty Vehicle Classes
- 2007 ZEV Technology Review
- California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Standards; Amendments to the California Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Regulation; 2003-2006 Model Years Within the Scope Request; 2007 and Subsequent Model Years Waiver Request; Opportunity for Public Hearing
The Fleet Market
- In California alone, there are more than 12,000 fleets of 10 or more vehicles, about one-third autos, one-third light-duty trucks and the remainder medium- and heavy-duty trucks, according to auto industry sources.
- The car and light-truck component of this market represents more than 900,000 vehicles; one-fourth are purchased new each year.
- Fleet industry studies indicate that government use represents one of the biggest fleets: 22% cars and 50% trucks with business use at 25% of cars and 34% of trucks, and rental use 35% of cars and 5% of trucks.
- A limited study of Electric Vehicles (“EVs”) in 59 municipal, government, transit agency and university fleets in Southern California by Southern California Edison’s Electric Drive Transportation Division (March 1999) found 178 EVs in operation and another 67 in the process of being acquired.
- Fleet size ranged from a single vehicle in many municipalities to 51 deployed by the City of Los Angeles (still a small percentage of its more than 22,000 vehicle fleet).
- Of the municipalities surveyed, 72% of those fully reporting their data showed EVs comprising at least 1% of their fleets or 27% with EVs comprising less than 1% of their fleets, 43% with EVs comprising 1 to 4% of their fleets, 9% with EVs comprising 5 to 9% of their fleets and 20% (nine municipalities) with EVs comprising at least 10% of their fleets.
- If these numbers were consistent throughout, the campaign to bring municipalities up to the 10% EV fleet standard would net approximately 10,000 new EV placements, or approximately 3,350 annually, solely from municipalities, transit fleets and universities.
- The study establishes that a significant number of consumers and fleet buyers are interested in electric vehicles for all the expected reasons (lower operating costs, positive environmental image, etc.) and that given the opportunity, they would own and drive them.
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