Electrification Coalition & City of Atlanta Fleet Electrification Methodology

In 2017, the Electrification Coalition (EC) began working with Sawatch Group to provide analyses of fleet vehicle suitability for transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and pilot the use of ezEV analytics platform to perform the analyses. In summer 2017, the City of Atlanta engaged with the EC about the opportunity to conduct an analysis of 50 vehicles for transition to EVs as part of the city’s overall goal of transitioning 20% of the municipal fleet to electric vehicles which is approximately 600 EVs. This document summarizes the methodology adopted to complete that analysis and a description of the outputs and recommendations generated.

The City of Atlanta had already contracted with a telematics provider—Verizon Networkfleet— to provide telematics data across fleet vehicles in the Department of Watershed Management. Through their ezEV-Light software, Sawatch Group is able to provide analysis of EV suitability using any telematics provider’s data.