Vehicle Fleet - Fuel and Maintenance Costs/Electric Vehicle Implementation
Keywords
Vehicle, Fleet, Fuel, Maintenance, Repair, Electric, Costs, Spends
Publication number
PUB 1161
FOI reference number
15453
Request title
Essex Police Vehicle Fleet - Fuel and Maintenance
Date range
N/A
Information requested
I am wondering if you have any information on how much the force spends on Fuel and Vehicle maintenance per year and if there is any information on how the force intends to implement electric vehicles into the fleet.
Disclosure with exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information correct as at
16 March 2021
Date of disclosure
01 April 2021
Related documents
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FOI 15453 response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
How much the force spends on Fuel and Vehicle maintenance per year.
As you have not specified a year, we have provided figures for the current year with forecasts:
Fuel - £1.3m
Repair & Maintenance - £1.1m.
How the force intends to implement electric vehicles into the fleet.
Essex Police have diesel and petrol vehicles that will need to be replaced by zero emission alternatives. In tandem with the scheduled vehicle replacement programme the Force will put in place an electric charging infrastructure, whilst scoping the possible new technologies and advances that could affect early investment. The move to zero emissions will be incorporated into current planning, as in many cases vehicles will have two or three replacement cycles before they move to electric or other options.
At this stage, our thinking is to progress on a location by location basis to pick off the easier sites where we can learn quickly as to the best options to meet operational need. We will test and evaluate new vehicle technology and its application to policing roles. Technology will be advancing rapidly over the next few years so timing of the evaluation and deployment to business as usual will be critical.
Access to zero emission vehicles will be via the National Emergency Service vehicle contract to be let in April 2021. This drives down purchase costs and provides access to lower performance electric and hybrid vehicles. Initially, investment will focus on unmarked non-response vehicles where operational capability and performance are not factors. The more challenging replacements will be those requiring significant performance and payload to deliver service. For example, a fully loaded traffic vehicle travelling at high speed will lose range rapidly and would very likely be over payload weight when carrying equipment.
The final vehicles we will look to replace are vans such as those used for public order as their cost and capability will benefit from the evolving technology that will take place over the next couple of years.
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