What is the Electrify My Fleet Municipal Roadmap Generator?
The “Electrify My Fleet” Municipal Roadmap Generator is an interactive tool designed to assist municipal representatives in evaluating their electric vehicle fleet readiness and and generate a customized municipal fleet electrification roadmap.
The tool was built by SACE in partnership with several local governments who provided invaluable insights. It takes users through a structured decision-making process and helps identify baseline metrics and desired goals. Users answer questions in the tool, which takes about fifteen minutes, and the tool then produces an actionable, personalized roadmap for fleet electrification. The roadmap includes hyperlinked resources, curated by SACE, generated based on the user’s responses to the tool’s questions. It can be downloaded as a PDF and shared with additional municipal staff.
Who is the Roadmap Generator For?
The tool was designed to support local governments and has resources geared to address and help overcome barriers unique to municipal fleet adoption.
How Is the Data Used?
The responses will be used to create the user’s personalized plan. Responses will only be visible to the user, but can be downloaded as a PDF that can be saved or exported to share with municipal stakeholders. The data will not be collected or shared by SACE.
How Does the Roadmap Generator Work?
Users will be asked several multiple-choice questions with options to select all that apply, ‘none of the above’, or ‘not sure’. Once the roadmap has been generated, there isn’t the functionality to go back and edit answers to questions. However, users can reset the tool and change answers an unlimited amount of times. Each time the tool is used, if responses are altered, it will be reflected as a different final set of resources displayed. It may be helpful to take a test run to see the questions and seek support from other staff in your organization who may have access to data to help answer specific questions.
There are eight stages of the roadmap. It begins with basic intake information about the user’s role, municipality, and specific areas of interest.
The tool is divided into six focus areas:
- Foundations: Policy, Planning, and Governance
- Planning and Feasibility
- Vehicle Selection and Charging Alignment
- Design and Procurement
- Operations and Management
- Evaluation and Growth
This first series of questions helps identify what foundational pieces may already exist in your municipality. The second section relates to planning and feasibility, providing a sense of where your municipality is starting from a leadership, planning, and coordination perspective. The vehicle selection and charging alignment section seeks to understand how well EVs and charging strategies align with current fleet operations. The fourth section, “Design and Procurement,” includes questions to help determine whether planning, funding, and coordination are in place to move from strategy into implementation. The section on operations and management helps identify whether systems, training, and processes are in place to support day-to-day EV operations. Finally, the evaluation and growth section examines how performance is measured over time and how the program can evolve. It helps plan for long-term success and accountability. Once the user has completed all the questions in the focus areas, a final EV readiness report will be generated.
What’s in the Roadmap?
The roadmap provides a gap analysis and identifies areas requiring action based on the answers provided. It is organized into six focus areas and reiterates the questions and the user’s answers. Then, for each, it provides actionable considerations to address identified gaps. Additionally, it provides curated resources such as documents, tools, and case studies that are hyperlinked. At the very end of the roadmap, there is a button that allows the user to download the complete roadmap as a PDF that can be saved or exported to share with municipal stakeholders. None of the answers are being collected or saved by SACE, so if it isn’t downloaded at this point, the data will be lost.
Created in Collaboration
The author would like to recognize and thank the following contributors who helped guide the creation of this tool and provided valuable feedback and insights. Their support has grounded the tool in real-world functionality and made it more robust. Chris Davis, Heather Bolick, and team from the City of Charlotte. Rick Longobart and team from the City of Raleigh. Matt Anderson and team from the City of Coral Gables.
