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Expect huge EV company car and fleet sales next year also due to the below news (the stars really are aligning for AFC's EV Charger!).
No company car tax on electric vehicles, says Government
09/07/2019 in Fleet Industry News
The 0% rate will also apply to company cars registered from April 6, 2020, with emissions from 1-50g/km and a pure electric mile range of 130 miles or more.
Both will then increase to 1% in 2021/22 and 2% in 2022/23.
Pure electric company cars registered before April 6, 2020, will also increase to 1% and 2% in subsequent years, 2021/22 and 2022/23.
However, company cars registered before April 6, 2020, with emissions from 1-50g/km and a pure electric mile range of 130 miles or more attract a 2% BIK rate in 2020/21 and stay the same for the two subsequent tax years.
From 2023/24, fleets will have one BIK tax table again as the rates are realigned.
The Government says that “by providing clarity of future the appropriate percentages, businesses will have the ability to make more informed decisions about how they make the transition to zero emission fleets”.
https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet-industry-news/2019/07/09/no-company-car-tax-on-electric-vehicles-says-government
Huge opportunity for AFC!!
September 26, 2019
Will Amazon's order of 100,000 electric vehicles break the grid? The short answer is no. However, the order marks an important milestone for transport electrification.
As the single largest EV purchase announced to date, the Amazon-Rivian deal will ripple through the electric vehicle and electric utility industry, creating new urgency around questions for fleet owners, utilities and regulators regarding the velocity of the energy transition and the impact on the electricity grid.
Utilities: The promise and complexity of fleet electrification
The coming era of EV fleets is fantastic news for electric utilities in the medium to long term, as it will provide a boost to electricity demand.
However, it does raise some major questions that are not easy to answer for regulated utility operating companies — namely, how will these fleets charge? After we heard the news, the WoodMac team did some back-of-the-napkin modeling about impact on the grid.
Isaac Maze-Rothstein with our Grid Edge team posited that with battery sizes that could easily range from 105 kilowatt-hours (230 miles) to 185 kilowatt-hours (400 miles), high-power Level 2 chargers (around 20 kilowatts) could work for Amazon's delivery application.
Assuming charging occurs at a rate of only 20 kilowatts, this single fleet could hypothetically lead to a nationwide increase in demand of up to 2 gigawatts, if all of these vehicles had a corresponding charging outlet and charged at the same time. This is a severe and unlikely scenario that would only occur under conditions such as a rate structure that incentivized simultaneous charging.
Even if this scenario were to occur, an additional 2 gigawatts during peak periods would not create significant strain on wholesale markets across the U.S., especially as these vehicles would likely do most of their charging at night, when wind power is more abundant and power demand is typically at its lowest.
Yet while the wholesale market can accommodate 2 gigawatts of additional demand, even a fraction of that demand could exceed the local capacity available to individual sites (i.e., the distribution grid near fleet depots). Increased demand at depot facilities could necessitate extensive electrical service upgrades for the local network.
The severity of this challenge could range from a head-scratcher — a warehouse next to a underloaded substation taking on 10 vehicles (or 200 kilowatts of potential demand) — to a migraine — a fulfillment center in an urban center requiring 200 vehicles or 4 megawatts of worst-case scenario load in an already-congested location.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/4-takeaways-from-amazons-huge-electric-delivery-van
"DHL Express has launched 10 electric courier vans in London as part of its UK fleet. The rollout of the Renault ZE Masters vans is the first stage in DHL Express’ plan to run 400 electric vehicles in its UK-wide fleet by 2025."
https://www.parcelandpostaltechnologyinternational.com/news/vehicles-fleet/dhl-express-brings-electric-vans-to-london.html
Clearly they are building up to the release of a swathe of new EV vans next year.
"Royal Mail is to triple the size of its electric van fleet with the addition of 190 new models by the end of the year. The company, which will use the new vans to deliver letters, parcels and cards across selected locations in London and surrounding areas, introduced 100 EVs last year."
"The investment forms part of Royal Mail’s involvement in Ofgem-funded Optimise Prime – the world’s largest commercial electric vehicle project."
"Nicole Thompson, director, social innovation and co-creation partnerships at Hitachi Vantara said: “The Optimise Prime consortium is delighted to see the first tranche of new commercial electric vehicles on the road. By sharing data and collaborating with this industry-led initiative, Royal Mail is helping us pave the way for the mass adoption of electric vehicles in the UK.”
https://www.commercialfleet.org/news/van-news/2019/07/18/royal-mail-to-add-further-190-electric-vans-to-fleet
EV Database dot org is an excellent source of information, well worth a play with the filters to see what's here and what's coming along in different price segments and styles.
EV Database
https://ev-database.org/
Basic information is that there are 28 EV models here now, some have been around for years. But next year 34 new models will arrive, including several in the lower price bracket, where many prospective buyers have been waiting years for EV's to arrive.
Because all of these new models are arriving next year, there will be pretty much an EV that fits everyone's requirements. This means 2020 will be the year that EV's really take off, pummeling the sales of petrol and diesel cars.
There are currently only 8 EV vans, but next year another 14 out next year, including Fiat, Peugeot, Mercedes, VW, Citreon, Morris, LDV etc. Again this will produce vans suitable for everyone that needs a van. The uptake will be huge. This is where I see Royal Mail, UPS, and other couriers buying up fleets of EV vans, and this is a big target for the AFC EV charger, because the couriers would need huge power to recharge their fleets. An AFC EV charger may not need planning permission, or minimal level for these sites, because they will be on private property, not in public car parks.
See Parkers electric van guide
https://www.parkers.co.uk/vans-pickups/advice/electric-van-guide/
There will of course be a huge increase in demand for EV charging points for all the above vehicles. So AFC's timing could not be better, as there's no chance of the grid or the charging point expansion keeping up with demand.