About SwitchMyFleet

A world first, SwitchMyFleet is a revolutionary free-to-use tool that helps Transport Fleet and ESG managers evaluate real-world business scenarios to compare the costs of operating different types of ICE and EV vehicles.

Co-funded through New Zealand’s Low Transport Emissions Fund (administered by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority), SwitchMyFleet stands apart from all other fleet evaluation tools in its ability to guide key decision makers in understanding the operational costs involved in making the switch to an electric fleet based, on typical destinations that the vehicles travel to and the changing payload.

While typical online calculators look at the total cost of ownership (TCO) metrics like purchase price, maintenance costs, and electricity prices, SwitchMyFleet fills in the other (and much larger) piece of the picture, helping organisations to model their current fleet and a potential EV fleet, based on where they go (and what the changing payload is) so they return to base with spare battery capacity.

SwitchMyFleet provides side-by-side comparisons of the operational costs and maps that show the optimised routes.

Watch SwitchMyFleet in action

Learn more about how SwitchMyFleet works. Watch the demo video below.

Commercial EVs make the grade

There is a concern that EVs may not be able to do the same job (or better) than ICE vehicles.

One of the most talked about barriers in switching from an ICE fleet to an EV fleet are range anxiety (is an EV right for the job in our changing terrain e.g. hills?), and lost productivity and increased costs when it’s necessary to charge the electric vehicles while enroute.

SwitchMyFleet is configured so that EVs return to base with 30% charge left in the battery.

To give you more confidence in SwitchMyFleet’s results, we’ve put together a case study of a truck delivering whiteware from its Christchurch warehouse. One vehicle is travelling along the hilly roads to Akaroa and another to Ashburton (with its more subtle change in elevation), and the results might very well surprise you.

How does SwitchMyFleet help accelerate the decarbonisation of NZ?

Recognised as one of New Zealand’s largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, New Zealand needs to decarbonise transport.

According to the Ministry for the Environment, transport is responsible for 17 percent of New Zealand’s gross emissions. However, despite this statistic, many organisations remain challenged in accelerating fleet transition programmes as they lack the critical operational data required to build a credible business case.

That’s where SwitchMyFleet comes in.

Prior to its inception, understanding the total operational costs between an ICE fleet versus an EV fleet was very rudimentary and limited to purchase price, electricity price and maintenance costs. However, by giving users the opportunity to see how electric vehicles operate in their business’ own unique environment, SwitchMyFleet provides the necessary metrics needed for decision-making – simply. Strategically, or at a macro level, organisations who use this data to build their business cases will be the champions accelerating NZ’s transition to EV fleets.

SwitchMyFleet is a free-to-use tool whose purpose is to accelerate the decarbonisation of NZ by helping organisations model and understand the costs and benefits of transitioning to an EV fleet.  

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