Part of the Solution Reducing Your Fleet’s Environmental Impact: Sensible Strategies and Proven Tools
Building an Eco-Friendly Fleet
Balance … reduce … restore. Like many businesses today, you may be looking for innovative ways to address the environmental impact of your operations. Managing vehicle emissions can represent a key — and highly visible — component of an effective stewardship effort. However, it can be hard for companies with medium-size fleets to take advantage of environmental best practices.
That’s why Enterprise Fleet Management now offers a set of programs and initiatives to help customers manage the “carbon footprint” of their fleets. We’re ready to work with you — to ensure that your fleet becomes part of the solution.
Our services include:
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Vehicle Cycling/Fleet Optimization.
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Emerging Fuel and Engine Technologies.
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Fleet Emission Footprint Analysis.
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Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Vehicle Cycling/Fleet Optimization
You manage what you measure. It is the fundamental principle of fleet optimization — getting all the data you need to make smart decisions about vehicle cycling. Traditionally, the formula focuses on factors such as acquisition cost, maintenance expenses and residual value. Enterprise Fleet Management can help you add a comprehensive environmental dimension to your vehiclecycling decisions. We have the expertise to measure: >> Current fleet emissions. >> Projected improvements in fuel efficiency. >> Direct and indirect remediation costs.
Emerging Fuel and Engine Technologies You might be surprised at the impact of the latest engine technologies on environmental performance: >> FlexFuel vehicles running on E85 fuel (a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline) can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 percent compared with traditional engines. 1 >> Hybrid engines can deliver up to 40 percent better fuel efficiency than their counterparts that are powered by gasoline alone. 2 But new engine technologies have important limitations too. For example: Alternative fuels — such as E85 — may not be widely available in your fleet’s service area. In addition, your costs for acquisition, maintenance and resale can differ significantly compared with traditional vehicles. Enterprise Fleet Management offers you the benefit of unmatched experience with emerging fuel and engine technologies. Today, Enterprise companies own the largest fleet of FlexFuel vehicles in the world, along with thousands of gas-electric hybrids. Our expertise can help you make smart decisions about when and where to deploy new engine technologies.
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Fleet Emission Footprint Analysis As a commercial operation, you may have limited options for reducing the environmental impact of your fleet. After all, low-emission, fuel-efficient engines are not widely available on service vehicles, such as cargo vans, step vans and medium-duty trucks. Even taking steps to balance or mitigate your fleet’s emissions can be a challenge — particularly if you don’t have the resources to measure the carbon footprint of the vehicles you operate.
Enterprise Fleet Management can simplify the benchmarking process for you. We work in partnership with a respected provider to offer you an accurate report on vehicle emissions — tailored to your fleet’s unique composition and driving conditions. This data can then be used to influence fleetmanagement choices, such as vehicle selection/ replacement or the decision to participate in an emission offset program.
Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Verified greenhouse gas offsets can provide an appealing option for fleet operators, who would otherwise have few practical ways to reduce the impact of their vehicle emissions. In essence, these offsets are contracts to invest in projects and technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Enterprise Fleet Management can help you purchase these offsets through a trusted third-party partner, TerraPass. TerraPass invests in alternative energy projects — such as energy from wind farms and the mining of methane gas from landfills — to remove harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. All TerraPass projects are subject to rigorous quality checks; this helps to ensure that, when you purchase the offsets, you are taking meaningful steps to improve the environment. When you opt in to our offset program, we will help fund the cost to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions created by your fleet vehicles. In fact, Enterprise Fleet Management, through our company’s charitable foundation, will match a portion of each customer’s greenhouse gas offset purchase. Collectively, the company’s foundation has pledged up to $1 million annually as part of its customer match program.
Environmental Stewardship: A Mutual Commitment
When you do business with Enterprise Fleet Management, you are partnering with a corporate family that takes environmental stewardship very seriously. Beyond our aggressive efforts to build a fuel-efficient, low-emissions fleet, we have made substantial long-term investments in systemic efforts to address environmental challenges. These include: >> A LEED™-certified “Green Building” to house Enterprise Fleet Management’s National Operations Center. 3 >> Research funding for alternative fuels — a $25 million grant to create the Enterprise Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, renowned center with expertise in plant oils. >> The 50 Million Tree Pledge — a $50 million gift that created an innovative partnership with the National Arbor Day Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service to underwrite the planting of 1 million trees a year for 50 years in national forests across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. While we do not expect our efforts to provide a total solution, we do believe that they are making a difference. We welcome the opportunity to work in partnership with you to build a more sustainable future for our communities — and for the world.
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Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency estimate.
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ource: Science Daily article published 11/12/2007, quoting working paper presented by John Graham, S senior author at Rand Corporation. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071108155409.htm
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ilver certification awarded in 2005 by the U.S. Green Building Council as part of its Leadership in S Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program — for following a variety of environmentally friendly construction practices.