sustainable fleet deployment best practices: htuf webinar series
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Fleet Sustainability Best Practices Guide: A Preview
Whitney Pitkanen, CALSTART
Senior Project Manager
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There is no “Silver Bullet” – no single technical or fuel solution exists today to
cover every vehicle, fleet or location
Introduction
Fleets need a “portfolio” of options
Not just about the environment…
Choosing the right technologies and deploying them in a thoughtful way will Save Money and
Reduce your Fuel Volatility Risk
Steps to a More Sustainable Fleet
STEP 1: BASELINE YOUR FLEET KNOW YOUR VEHICLE AND ROUTE PROFILES
STEP 2: KNOW YOUR OPTIONS USE EFFICIENCY MEASURES AS A STARTING
POINT
STEP 3: MATCH OPTIONS TO YOUR FLEET CHOOSE OPTIONS BASED ON DAILY
MILEAGE AND DRIVE CYCLE INTENSITY
STEP 4: OUTLINE YOUR PATHWAYS DEFINE TARGETS AND STRATEGIES GET MAXIMUM BENEFITS FROM ONLINE
TOOLS
STEP 5: PAY FOR YOUR PLAN BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS 4
Steps to a More Sustainable Fleet
Step 1: Baseline your fleet
You need to know your starting point Keep it simple: Easiest way to do that is to
measure your yearly fuel burn - by vehicle Start by focusing on heaviest fuel users
At later stages, or if you want to get more sophisticated in future, it is also important to know how vehicles are used (duty cycle; idle time; gallons/day, seasonal effects)
Doesn’t hurt to collect data on representative types for future planning
Steps to a More Sustainable Fleet
Step 2: Know your options
Reduce your fuel burn Increased efficiency: hybrids; advanced tech engines Eliminate idling (Start-Stop) Downsize vehicle engine or platform sizes where possible
Diversify your fuel mix Fuel switching: electricity, natural gas, biofuel blends can
be cheaper fuels Having a mix of fuels insulates you from price spikes in any
one fuel
Change your operations Take vehicles off the road Dispatch best-suited vehicles to job
Steps to a More Sustainable Fleet
Step 3: Match your options to your fleet mix, fleet geography,
operational profile
Place the correct technology and fuel into the best use in your fleet; fine tune your fleet
Avoid putting Hybrid into higher speed routes with limited stopping or idling
Make sure EV’s get enough miles/year to deliver a payback (without creating “range anxiety” for drivers)
Put CNG/LNG/LPG in high mileage routes E85 may be a great option in Midwest, propane better in
Texas, electric or natural gas in California or New York – look for match with growing infrastructure and production
Be aware of regional air quality
Case Study: UPS
U.S. Alternative Fuel Vehicles Total: 1,424
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Vehicles: 933(car group = count) P70C = 189 Package Cars P80C = 49 Package Cars P100C = 608 Package Cars P10CX = 50 Package Cars HSC = 37 Shifters
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV): 380 P70H = 25 Package Cars P100H = 355 Package Cars
Electric Vehicles : 6 P70E = 4 Package Cars P100E = 2 Package Cars
Propane Vehicles : 7 HSP = 7 Shifters
Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Vehicles : 93 HTLG = 81 Tractors HTLGT = 12 Tandem Tractors
Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles (HHV): 5 P10HH = 5 Package Cars
Steps to a More Sustainable Fleet
Step 4: Outline your reduction plan pathways over several years
DEFINE TARGETS AND STRATEGIES identify “what” you are planning to achieve and “when” Then define an achievable plan to achieve those goals
GET MAXIMUM BENEFITS FROM ONLINE TOOLS DOE offers a large collection of helpful online tools:
Petroleum Reduction Planning Tool Vehicle Cost Calculator Alternative Fueling Station Locator Truck Stop Electrification Sites Light-Duty Vehicle Search Heavy-Duty Vehicle and Engine Search
U.S. DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center, Tools: http://www.afdc.energy.gov/tools
Case Study: Frito Lay
Source: Michael O’Connell, Frito-Lay, GTS 2013
Steps to a More Sustainable Fleet
Step 5: Pay for your Plan
BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS Prepare the financial analysis required to support your
company’s capital procurement and approval process Determine how many years it takes to recoup the initial
purchase investment through various operational savings and assumptions about the availability of government subsidies (e.g., vehicle incentive vouchers), fuel prices, and vehicle usage
LEVERAGE INCENTIVE FUNDING Grant funding can be used to bring down the lifecycle costs of
these vehicles so that they are competitive with conventional fuel vehicles in any fleet
US-DOE Clean Cities locations: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/
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