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The EV market is rapidly expanding. If your customers and employees haven’t started to arrive in an electric vehicle, they will soon. Commercial fleets have achieved cost parity in many vehicle classes. With a range of incentives which includes federal tax credits and grants to state and utility rebates, the time is right to consider preparing your business for the transition to electric. Offering EV charging is a great benefit for customers and employees and is an important part of electrifying your own fleet.
Avista is here to help you evaluate and explore options to meet all your transportation electrification needs including customer, fleet, and sustainability goals. In many cases, electric vehicles have much lower operating costs. Ask us for help early on in your project, we’ll be pleased to be of assistance in your evaluation and implementation.
Avista is here to help you evaluate and explore options to meet all your transportation electrification needs including customer, fleet, and sustainability goals. In many cases, electric vehicles have much lower operating costs. Ask us for help early on in your project, we’ll be pleased to be of assistance in your evaluation and implementation.
Charging Programs For Your Business
Businesses around the world are beginning to see the value of offering EV charging. Customers and employees alike appreciate this added benefit and it can come at little added cost to the business. As more and more people transition to driving electric, it is important to understand how this may impact your business. We've compiled the following information to help you identify your unique needs.
Additional Resources for Employers:
Workplace Charging for Plug-In Electric Vehicles: Details on at-work charging programs from feasibility through implementation
GSA Fleet Training: A comprehensive set of training modules for Federal sites considering electrification
Workplace Charging for Plug-In Electric Vehicles: Details on at-work charging programs from feasibility through implementation
GSA Fleet Training: A comprehensive set of training modules for Federal sites considering electrification
Convert Your Fleet Vehicles & Forklifts to Electric
Our Commercial Fleet resources help you understand the impacts of an EV fleet conversion, including determining if EVs are right for your organization, identifying candidate vehicles, reviewing available incentives and time of use programs, calculating your potential savings and evaluating your carbon impact.
Municipalities
As a municipality, you will likely serve a dual-role as both a fleet manager and a local EV community facilitator—regulating, permitting, and potentially promoting EV charging and EV fleets. Municipalities are in a unique position to accelerate the adoption of EVs through:
Policy: Acknowledging EV benefits and actively supporting development of charging infrastructure.
Regulation: Implementing development standards and regulations that enable EV use. Simply stating and publishing objectives and educating developers can be effective at driving momentum.
Administration: Creating a transparent and predictable EV permitting processes.
Programs: Developing public programs to overcome market barriers.
Leadership: Demonstrating EV viability in public fleets and facilities.
Policy: Acknowledging EV benefits and actively supporting development of charging infrastructure.
Regulation: Implementing development standards and regulations that enable EV use. Simply stating and publishing objectives and educating developers can be effective at driving momentum.
Administration: Creating a transparent and predictable EV permitting processes.
Programs: Developing public programs to overcome market barriers.
Leadership: Demonstrating EV viability in public fleets and facilities.
Additional Resources for Municipalities:
Making Your City “EV Ready”
The Road to Fleet Electrification: Eight ways utilities, regulators, and policymakers can enable fleet operators to electrify commercial transportation and reduce carbon emissions
Summary of Best Practices in Electric Vehicle Ordinances
Residential Electric Vehicle Charging: A Guide for Local Governments
Making Your City “EV Ready”
The Road to Fleet Electrification: Eight ways utilities, regulators, and policymakers can enable fleet operators to electrify commercial transportation and reduce carbon emissions
Summary of Best Practices in Electric Vehicle Ordinances
Residential Electric Vehicle Charging: A Guide for Local Governments