The California Energy Commission contracted with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to create and launch MyFleetBuy, a fleet procurement system and online portal to help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). MyFleetBuy is a software solution that helps fleet owners evaluate their driving patterns to determine EV suitability and to make EV charging infrastruc-ture decisions. The team worked with fleet owners in California to understand the challenges they face while making vehicle electrification decisions.
Initial fleet assessments and product development focused on improving fleet operators’ familiarity with EV technology and determining if an EV could meet the operating needs of their existing vehicles. This led to the development of mapping and EV charger visualization tools to help fleet owners use a data-centric fleet procurement approach.
After extensive market development efforts, the MyFleetBuy team revised its approach to deploy solutions that reduced the cost and uncertainty for fleet advisors, including consultants and electric utilities, to provide transportation electrification recommendations. The team also realized the importance of addressing EV knowledge gaps and biases as a change manage-ment strategy to reduce internal pushback against fleet electrification. Consequently, the MyFleetBuy team launched Electrifyze, an EV learning management system, to systematically address EV education gaps and measure improvement in EV readiness across organizations.
By developing the MyFleetBuy fleet analytics software and the Electrifyze learning management system, the team evaluated more than 12,000 fleet vehicles for electrification and provided EV education to more than 3,600 employees throughout California.
