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The grey fleet low-carbon challenge

18 April 2022

The Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) says that making grey fleet operations low-carbon will be a major challenge over the next few years.  

AFP chair Paul Hollick said, “By the end of this year, and certainly looking into 2023, it’s likely that many major fleets will have something like a 30-50% rate of EV penetration. They are well on the way to becoming zero emissions fleets.

“However, the rate of change for grey fleet is much, much slower. Among private motorists using their car for work purposes, those opting for PHEVS and EVs are still very much the outliers and that situation may well persist for a while.

Paul Hollick said that the most obvious solution to this issue is an EV-based salary sacrifice scheme and that the management of infrastructure and reimbursement to support grey fleet EVs is essential. He added that fleets may also need to take greater control over grey fleet vehicles used for company business in order to achieve environmental aims. 

This could mean ensuring that only low emission vehicles are used within grey fleet operations, though the financial impact for employees of transitioning to an EV will require significant consideration. 

Paul Hollick concluded, “It may well be it is inevitable, towards the end of the decade, that fleets have to use more rental and pool cars as a substitute for grey fleet in order to ensure that only low and zero emissions vehicles are used on company business.”

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