Session: Transport

The Green Fleet Program - Vehicle Lifecycle Environmental/Economic Impact analysis tool powered by Argonne National Lab's GREET Model
Greg Wallace-Reynolds Rock,^*   The Green Car Company - Founder

The Green Fleet Program is a detailed vehicle environmental and economic impact analysis tool. The program uses quantitative values derived from the GREET model like grams of pollutant per lb of fuel consumed or gallons of fuel consumed per lbs of li-ion batteries manufactured/recycled as quantitative input values. These values power a detailed vehicle simulation tool capable of modeling vehicle’s as complex as a tri-fuel vehicle. An example of a tri-fuel vehicle would be a PHEV running on electricity, gasoline and ethanol. The program produces environmental impact reports detailing any specific vehicles impacts on green house gases, regulated emission, and fossil fuel consumption.

The Green Fleet program is used to provide lifecycle vehicle analysis and cost benefit comparisons to municipal, educational, and business fleets purchasing eco-friendly vehicles from The Green Car Company. The program gives the GCC the ability to show fleet managers vehicle to vehicle comparisons, establish baselines, simulate future fleets’ environmental impacts, as well as perform dynamic analysis tracking things such as cost to own and operate a vehicle over a range of potential fuel prices.

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