National Federal Fleet Loaner Program, Interim Status Report
Abstract
The goal of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loaner Program is to increase the awareness, deployment, and use of electric vehicles (EVs) in Federal fleets. The Loaner Program accomplishes this by providing free EVs to Federal fleets on a loaner basis, generally for 1 or 2 months. The Program partners DOE with six electric utilities, with DOE providing financial support and some leads on Federal fleets interested in obtaining EVs. The utilities obtain the vehicles, identify candidate loaner fleets, loan the vehicles, provide temporary charging infrastructure, provide overall support to participating Federal fleets, and support fleets with their leasing decisions. While the utilities have not had the success initially envisioned by themselves, DOE, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas, the utilities can not be faulted for their efforts, as they are not the entity that makes the ultimate lease or no-lease decision. Some external groups have suggested to DOE that they direct other federal agencies to change their processes to make loaning vehicles easier; this is simply not within the power of DOE. By law, a certain percentage of all new vehicle acquisitions are supposed to be alternative fuel vehicles (AFV); however, withmore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 910752
- Report Number(s):
- INEEL/EXT-00-01357
TRN: US200802%%129
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-99ID-13727
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 - GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENFORCEMENT; LEASES; LEASING; ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES; US DOE
Citation Formats
Francfort, James Edward. National Federal Fleet Loaner Program, Interim Status Report. United States: N. p., 2000.
Web. doi:10.2172/910752.
Francfort, James Edward. National Federal Fleet Loaner Program, Interim Status Report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/910752
Francfort, James Edward. 2000.
"National Federal Fleet Loaner Program, Interim Status Report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/910752. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/910752.
@article{osti_910752,
title = {National Federal Fleet Loaner Program, Interim Status Report},
author = {Francfort, James Edward},
abstractNote = {The goal of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loaner Program is to increase the awareness, deployment, and use of electric vehicles (EVs) in Federal fleets. The Loaner Program accomplishes this by providing free EVs to Federal fleets on a loaner basis, generally for 1 or 2 months. The Program partners DOE with six electric utilities, with DOE providing financial support and some leads on Federal fleets interested in obtaining EVs. The utilities obtain the vehicles, identify candidate loaner fleets, loan the vehicles, provide temporary charging infrastructure, provide overall support to participating Federal fleets, and support fleets with their leasing decisions. While the utilities have not had the success initially envisioned by themselves, DOE, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas, the utilities can not be faulted for their efforts, as they are not the entity that makes the ultimate lease or no-lease decision. Some external groups have suggested to DOE that they direct other federal agencies to change their processes to make loaning vehicles easier; this is simply not within the power of DOE. By law, a certain percentage of all new vehicle acquisitions are supposed to be alternative fuel vehicles (AFV); however, with no enforcement, the federal agencies are not compelled to lease AFVs such as electric vehicles.},
doi = {10.2172/910752},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/910752},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2000},
month = {Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2000}
}