Following an agreement involving Baxi, Greenhous and Novuna Vehicle Solutions, the first batch of vehicles has now been delivered to Baxi, whose Gas Safe registered engineers support residential and commercial customers across the UK. Baxi took delivery of 10 Vivaro Electric vans at Greenhous’ PDI centre in Stoke last week.

The OZEV Workplace Charging Scheme offers a voucher-based incentive to businesses looking to install on-site charging infrastructure for drivers capped at £350 per socket. This is restricted to 40 sockets per applicant across multiple sites and equates to lowering a company’s overall EV charger installation costs by up to 75%.

Policy document, which is now out for consultation, suggests that a sliding scale of EV production gets underway in 2024 with 22% of car sales and 10% of van sales being zero-emissions, rising to 80% and 70% respectively in 2030. The underlying issue with the EV Mandate is that it puts supply before demand at a time when vehicle production remains highly erratic

A study by IET revealed that in winter alone, drivers can idle for 244 minutes, which is a lot of wasted petrol, as well as the amount of CO2 that it would produce. Idling can use over 2 litres of fuel in the UK, with petrol around £1.50 per litre, that's over £3 an hour your business could be wasting.

Industry body says there’s a general perception that this issue is getting worse rather than better. Everyone knows and understands that there are ongoing production issues affecting almost every manufacturer but no-one can comprehend why this has seemingly caused a complete breakdown in responsibility and communication.

Arval UK is encouraging fleets to take action as a range of advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) devices were made compulsory on all new models in the EU last year and, as a result, are also being made part of UK specifications. Safety systems have the potential to be highly effective, but drivers need to understand how to incorporate them into their daily driving.

The in-cab driver coaching technology and rewards platform, developed by Lightfoot, has helped East of England Co-op achieve average fuel savings of up to 13.8%, and has also reduced vehicle idling – where drivers leave their engines running while stationary – by up to 9%. This has helped the East of England Co-op, which operates a diverse range of grocery delivery vans, security vans, stonemason vans and flatbeds, funeral hearses and limousines, to remain on track to reduce its fleet CO2 emissions by 233 tonnes over the next five years.

Manifesto is the result of several months of work by the AFP’s Future Mobility Steering Committee which has been having wide-ranging discussions with members and other interested parties about developing original ideas in areas where it believes that the taxation of fleets and mobility needs changing or developing in order to create effective incentives, greater certainty and more fairness.