Fleets for the Future Best Practices

GUIDE to the Guides - Municipal EV Charging Resources

The Cadmus Group, in collaboration with the Fleets for the Future procurement team, has developed this document as a curated collection of highly practical EV charging guides, tools, and procurement contracts that can help with municipal EV charging strategies and EVSE procurement.

Gaseous Fuel Vehicle Procurement Best Practices Guide

This guide briefly summarizes the basic attributes and benefits of both gaseous-fuels and their respective vehicle technologies, then explores best applications and why, highlighting the relationship between upfront premiums, fuel use, and vehicle maintenance to total cost of ownership (TCO). The guide also provides information about fueling infrastructure options and offers planning guidance. It reviews steps that lead organizations will need to undertake to build a successful cooperative purchasing initiative, including how to assess which vehicles/platforms will have the greatest cross-jurisdictional appeal; gaseous fuel-related specification criteria; purchasing processes that may consist of multiple stakeholders and their roles and obligations; potential modifications to maintenance facilities; and suggestions concerning engagement of private sector fleets to identify potential synergies and mutual benefits.

ELECTRIC VEHICLE PROCUREMENT BEST PRACTICES GUIDE

This guide is meant to help fleets and regionally-based buying cooperatives in understanding the benefits of deploying electric vehicles (EVs), as well as EV-specific considerations involved in the procurement process. Topics below cover both battery electric vehicles (BEV), which run solely on electricity as well as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), which use batteries to power an electric motor and use another fuel, such as gasoline, diesel, or fuel cells, to power an internal combustion engine.

Guide to Financing Alternative Fuel Vehicle Procurement

This document lays out the common strategies available for public and private fleets attempting to finance an investment in alternative fuel vehicles. While not all options are available to all fleets, the intent is to educate fleet managers on the best practices and challenges associated with implementation of each strategy.

Fleet Transition Planning for Alternative Fuel Vehicles

This document presents general fuel-neutral guidelines on planning a coordinated bulk procurement of AFVs. It discusses stakeholder engagement efforts, goal setting, prioritization of vehicle procurements, and planning for implementation of a successful procurement.