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How to keep your fleet compliant on the Road to Zero

Wondering how to make your fleet more sustainable?

If your job involves managing a fleet, you’ll play an important role in ensuring your organisation stays compliant on the Road to Zero. But don’t worry – we’re here to help you prepare for a greener future.

 

Read on to discover five, key steps for keeping your fleet compliant, plus the risks you could face if you don’t take action.

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What is the Road to Zero?

As you might already know, the Road to Zero is the government’s long-term strategy to achieve cleaner road transport. Its goals include:

 

  • Putting the UK at the leading edge of low-emission and electric vehicle (EV) design and production.
  • Only permitting the selling of new cars and vans that are effectively zero emission.
  • Accelerating the adoption of fuel-efficient motoring by business fleets, company car drivers, and private motorists.

 

Making any sort of meaningful change to your fleet can take time. So, it’s important to be proactive, and to start thinking about how you can comply with the Road to Zero strategy now.

Making any sort of meaningful change to your fleet can take time. So, it’s important to be proactive, and to start thinking about how you can comply with the Road to Zero strategy now.

Risks of non-compliance for those involved in fleet management

If your business requires vehicle movements near cities like London, Bristol, and Birmingham, it’s likely you’ll already understand the risks of non-compliance with ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone), LEZ (Low Emission Zone), and CAZ (Clean Air Zone) regulations.

However, the government’s commitment to a zero-emission future means that new rules, regulations, and deadlines may soon be on the horizon.

 

Staying up to date means you can avoid the risk of:

 

  • Fines for non-compliance
  • Loss of contracts
  • Reputational damage
  • Increased operating costs
  • Legal action

So, how can you keep your fleet compliant? Here are our five top tips:

Taking stock of your fleet – and its environmental impact – is the first step to improving efficiency.

Selecting vehicles with low CO₂ emissions will help your business meet goals and targets as they develop.

This might include getting people to commit to using greener technology, reducing waste, improving fuel efficiency, and lowering carbon emissions.

Training drivers in fuel-efficient motoring can lower fuel costs – and your business’s carbon footprint.

Ensuring vehicles are kitted out with telematics and GPS programmes will help you optimise route efficiency.

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Key areas of consideration for those managing a fleet

Now you understand a little more about the Road to Zero, here are four key areas of consideration to keep in mind in the lead-up to 2035.

Low-emission vehicles

Providing drivers with a range of options that include low-emission and hybrid vehicles will help reduce their fuel consumption – along with your fleet’s carbon footprint.

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Adding EVs to your vehicle choice list will help you meet growing employee demand for climate-friendly solutions. Benefit-In-Kind tax rates for EVs can also save your drivers substantial amounts of money. As a business, embracing EVs will help you continuously reduce your CO₂ emissions too.

Road safety

In addition to transitioning to electric vehicles, training drivers in fuel-efficient motoring will bring safety benefits, as well as reduced brake and tyre wear.

Congestion

Implementing solutions such as journey planning and route optimisation can help you reduce emissions, whatever type of cars are in your fleet.

How Alphabet can help

We can help you remain compliant on the Road to Zero. This includes helping you take the right approach to electrifying your organisation’s fleet with low-emission and fully electric vehicles.

 

We can act as the supportive partner you need to navigate the ins and outs of sustainable fleet management.

 

Of course, we recognise that every business is unique, so we can work with you to offer leasing options that cater to your specific requirements while ensuring maximum cost efficiency.

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Talk to our experts

Although 2035 might seem far away, it takes time to analyse, transition and establish an electric fleet, so it’s important to make sure you’re planning for the Road to Zero well in advance. If you’re not sure where best to start, get in touch with our electric experts to arrange a free consultation.

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