The new issue of Fleet News is available to read now, in digital-only format.
The February issue takes a detailed look at MaaS, or Mobility as a Service. It has the potential to transform travel through the use of technology to ease some of the burdens around transport use and planning, while reducing pollution.
But since the concept was first suggested, passions have cooled. Features editor Andrew Ryan looks at why.
In news Gareth Roberts details fleets calls for certainty in next week s Budget on how the Government will make up the shortfall in fuel tax take with the growth in popularity of EVs and the end of road tax. Pay-as-you-go taxation? Fleets don t agree.
Click the thumbs up >Winter conditions can reduce the range of a battery electric vehicle by up to 40%, participants in the Optimise Prime EV trial have reported.
The Ofgem-funded programme is the world’s largest commercial EV project and aims to discover how the UK’s electricity infrastructure will cope with the mass adoption of EVs, as well as how businesses can accelerate their transition.
It features three fleet partners – Royal Mail, Centrica and Uber – who each have different operating modes, as well as Hitachi and electricity distribution networks UK Power Network and Scottish and Southern Electricity networks.
James Rooney, fleet engineer at Centrica, said: “In 2014, we took on some Nissan eNV200s and they were a really good van in the summer, not so good in the winter.