General Services Administration Electrifies the Fleet; Delivers First Electric Vehicle to Navy
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Note
from the editor: this blog post was initially
posted on the White House website here.
October 25, 2011 - In
2009, when President Obama issued his
Executive Order 13514 challenging
the Federal Government to lead by example by
improving energy,
environmental, and economic performance, GSA
answered the call. As the
federal government's fleet operator, we have
leveraged our portfolio to
drive cost-saving, fuel efficient initiatives
across the federal
government. Each year, we have procured
thousands of fuel efficient
vehicles to replace older, less efficient ones.
We also continue to
improve management of about two-thirds of the
Federal fleet, while
directly increasing the fuel efficiency of the
vehicles we own and lease
to federal agencies— about 210,000 vehicles
in total.
In
fiscal year 2010, GSA successfully doubled the
federal hybrid fleet,
without increasing the total number of vehicles
overall, resulting in a
fleet fuel efficiency improvement equivalent to
reducing petroleum
consumption by an estimated 7.7 million gallons
of gasoline or 385,000
barrels of oil. To build on this, in May we
launched our electric
vehicle pilot to integrate these advanced
vehicles and infrastructure
into the federal government fleet for the first
time. Last week, GSA
delivered the pilot program's first plug-in
electric vehicle to the
Department of the Navy.
-Michael J. Robertson,
Chief of Staff of the U.S. General Services
Administration.