Real-world examples of fleet efficiency

Real-world examples of fleet efficiency: EXAMPLE 1: Use electric or smaller gas-powered service trucks EXAMPLE 2: Purchase efficient tires for passenger vehicles EXAMPLE 3: Purchase hybrid passenger vehicles ............. Example green fleets policies ............. Transportation Case Study How Eagle County cut fleet costs and fuel consumption Vehicle Fleets in the Clean Energy Economy workshop Feb. 5, 2010 Archive of presentations and meeting materials

EXAMPLE 1: Use electric or smaller gas-powered service trucks

Most local government service trucks travel just 5,000 miles a year. Over a five-year period:

• Replacing a 250-series 4x4 pickup truck with a neighborhood electric vehicle pickup saves $21,000 and cuts more than 26,000 pounds of CO2.
  
  
• Replacing a 250-series 4x4 pickup with a mid-size 4 cylinder 4x4 pickup would save $12,000 and 10,000 pounds of CO2.

If yearly mileage is higher, savings could be thousands of dollars larger.

Cost to operate various models of trucks for 5,000 miles per year at $3 per gallon fuel cost:

Truck model	City mpg	Purchase cost	Annual fuel cost	5-year total cost	Annual CO2 emissions
Ford F250 8cyl 4x4	10	$30,000	$1,500	$37,500	8,600 lbs.
Ford F150 8cyl 4x4	14	$26,000	$1,071	$31,357	6,800 lbs.
Ford Ranger 6 cyl 4x4	14	$24,000	$1,071	$29,357	6,800 lbs
Ford Ranger 4 cyl 2wd	17	$21,100	$882	$25,512	5,000 lbs
GEM electric pickup *	4 / kWh	$15,000	$106	$15,530	1,600 lbs **

* Payload 1,000 lb, 25 mph top speed, assumes 1,250 kWh/year at $0.085 per kWh)

 ** U.S. electric grid average is 1.34 pounds of carbon per kilowatt hour of produced electricity.