Government commits to fleet electrification transition

*Article source: greenfleet.net

The Department for Transport (DfT) has released new guidance on the government’s commitment that all of their fleets will be zero emission by 2027.

This refers to their operating vans and cars.

In 2017, the government said they were committed to electrifying 25 per cent of cars in central government department fleets by 2022.

The new commitment applies to all central government departments and their arm’s length bodies (ALBs), and the guidance sets out latest measures on scope, exemptions and additional exemptions.

ALBs within the scope of the commitment include executive agencies (EAs); non-ministerial departments (NMDs); executive non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), plus any other non-market bodies mainly controlled and financed by one or more central government departments. These are classed as ‘reporting organisations’.

Devolved administrations, local authorities, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories are not within scope of the commitment.

Fleet data must be reported quarterly to the Defra and central government departments should collect their reporting data themselves and on behalf of their ALBs unless otherwise agreed.