{"id":9559,"date":"2021-01-30T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:40:08","slug":"electrify-federal-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/30\/electrify-federal-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Commits to Electrify Federal Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22007612@N05\/48651032061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">Gage Skidmore<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">(CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Through his \u201cBuy American\u201d executive order, President Biden promises to upgrade the federal fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) made in the US.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Joe Biden announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/01\/25\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-executive-order-on-strengthening-american-manufacturing\/\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">a Jan. 25 speech<\/a> regarding his \u201cBuy American\u201d executive order that his administration is making a commitment to upgrade the federal fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) made in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe federal government\u2026owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we\u2019re going to replace with clean, electric vehicles made right here in America by American workers, creating millions of jobs \u2014 a million autoworker jobs in clean energy \u2014 and vehicles that are net-zero emissions,\u201d President Biden said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/d2d.gsa.gov\/report\/federal-fleet-open-data-visualization\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">Federal Fleet Report<\/a>, the fleet consists of over 645,000 vehicles. No formal timeline for the shift has been revealed as of yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biden promised during his campaign<a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/clean-energy\/\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\"> to invest $400 billion<\/a> over 10 years in clean energy research and innovation in an effort to create a stable source of demand and to help accelerate the U.S.\u2019 industrial capacity to produce clean vehicles and components.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plan set forth during his presidential campaign also aims to accelerate R&amp;D on battery technology for use in electric vehicles, with a focus on increasing durability, reducing waste, and lowering costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.government-fleet.com\/10135350\/federal-commitment-made-to-purchase-clean-govt-vehicles\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">Government Fleet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-16-gray\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetforward.com\/authors\/324937\/staff\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">GF Staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"posted-by\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetforward.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fleetforward.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CUT COTS OF THE FLEET WITH OUR AUDIT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5377\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet. We propose the following fleet management audit.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Through his \u201cBuy American\u201d executive order, President Biden promises to upgrade the federal fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) made in the US. President Joe Biden announced in a Jan. 25 speech regarding his \u201cBuy American\u201d executive order that his administration is making a commitment to upgrade the federal fleet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9561,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}