8/ Rental vehicles - and fleets in general - are used significantly more than privately owned vehicles. And since EVs cost less to operate, they pay for themselves. I explain this here 👇🎤
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9/ Unsurprisingly, other fleets are also aggressively purchasing EVs - subscription EV company just ordered 23k EVs...
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11/ Meanwhile has ordered 100k delivery vans from and “thousands” of ProMasters from . has ordered 10k electric vans from
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12/ #Fleet vehicles are the best type of cars to electrify - they do more miles more efficiently. And the companies operating them are also building the required infrastructure to scale EVs
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13/ But why should we subsidize fleets if they're already buying EVs?
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14/ IT'S SIMPLE: we have finite $s and raw materials. Each $ and battery cell that goes to private car ownership is going into "battery sponges” - vehicles that are over-engineered and underutilized 👇✍️
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15/ Fleet vehicles don't suffer from the obesity epidemic plaguing privately owned vehicles including EVs
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18/ It gets more toxic: Enter the automotive obesity epidemic. Each year our cars get larger and larger, to the point that the most popular car in America won't fit into many older garages usatoday.com/story/money/ca…
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16/ Instead every $ going to fleet vehicles has much greater leverage in how quickly it shifts miles over to electric
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17/ Companies like that show they can bring EVs online quickly should be given additional support to bring about an even bolder and more rapid transformation. Everything else will follow
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