2025 Green Fleet Award Series-10.24.25 Special Award Winners

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The 2025 Green Fleet Webinar Series showcased special award winners focused on innovative, cost-effective sustainable fleet practices. Highlights included Durham’s exemplary take-home electric vehicle (EV) charging program, which partners closely with Duke Energy, providing employees with home chargers and a monthly stipend, overcoming legal and logistical challenges. This program targets high-use sectors like police departments to maximize EV adoption and cuts emissions effectively.<br /><br />Pitt Ohio shared its impressive journey, evolving from small-scale deployments with natural gas and solar to a major electrification project in Harrisburg. Their success stems from strategic partnerships, persistent project management across multiple disciplines, and leveraging grants for infrastructure development. This collaborative ecosystem involved 17 partners, demonstrating the scale and coordination required for impactful sustainability projects.<br /><br />Richmond's award-winning electric vehicle policy exemplifies data-driven, strategic fleet electrification embedded within broader municipal sustainability goals (RVA Green 2050). Their policy features a decision tree prioritizing electric vehicles, right-sizing, and operational efficiency, fostering multi-department collaboration and standardizing EV adoption processes, charging infrastructure, and maintenance.<br /><br />Overall, the webinar emphasized starting small, building strong partnerships, securing funding, and integrating policy with technology. It highlighted that success in green fleet initiatives requires teamwork across departments and community stakeholders. The presentations demonstrated how both public and private fleets are advancing sustainability through innovative, pragmatic strategies supported by education and collaboration.

Keywords

green fleet

electric vehicle charging

sustainable fleet practices

fleet electrification

partnerships in sustainability

municipal sustainability goals

EV adoption

infrastructure development

fleet management policy