Apparently UK businesses are showing a marked reluctance to purchase new fleets of electric cars. They’re more inclined to buy hybrids – which one might suppose is a step in the right direction. The UK’s shipping companies may use electric trains for freight and Europe too utilises the railways, however they don’t appear to be purchasing large fleets of solely electric vehicles.
It could be that they find it hard to understand their fleet’s carbon emissions and operational costs and don’t have time to seek solutions to reduce them. Still, if you’re in a position to think a while, before purchasing, it might be an idea to ask for a “Green Fleet Review. The Energy Saving Trust (energysavingtrust.org) can help tighten up a company’s fuel processes and implement low emission transport solutions. You might decide to purchase just a few or up to seven hundred vehicles in your electric fleet at a mammoth saving of up to a thousand pounds per vehicle.
In China recently one firm grew from a battery company to a car manufacturer itself. Its future assured due to the highly sophisticated knowledge it had about the use of batteries. It’s already gaining notice in the European electric car markets today. Even though there has been a growing commitment from car manufacturers in the UK, businesses appear suspicious about purchasing an electric fleet of cars. Companies such as BSkyB, Center Parcs and O2 have benefitted from ditching regular shipping companies and expanding into their own fleet of reduced emissions vehicles. Where they lead, will you follow?