Frost & Sullivan Hosts Free Webinar:
Is an Electric Vehicle a Good Fit for U.S. Fleet Owners - the
Targeted Early Adopters?

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Vehicle manufacturers target vehicle fleet owners as the early
adopters of electric vehicles (EVs). Fleet operations not only
provide the ability to closely monitor the vehicles in the field,
they also offer a significant sales opportunity for EVs. For a
successful EV program, it is important to understand the
vehicle-purchase and vehicle-usage criteria of fleet customers and
align the EV product and service offerings with the criteria. This
Frost & Sullivan briefing will address the following key
issues:

• How are business fleets structured, and what are the most
  important vehicle purchase criteria?
• What are the usage characteristics of fleet vehicles and to
  what extent are they aligned with the EV?
• What are the fleet customer's preferences for business models
  and service packages?
• What is the potential demand for EVs?

This event will benefit the following:

• Federal, state, and city policy makers
• Financial institutions and investment bankers
• EV OEMs
• Other stakeholders in the EV value chain - including battery
  suppliers, electric drive system and component suppliers, charging
  equipment suppliers, charging infrastructure developers, power
  utilities, telematics and location based service (LBS) providers,
  and other supporting service providers

This event will also benefit private fleets in the following
sectors:

• Postal Services & Courier
• Business Delivery Services
• Building & Maintenance
• Utility & Telecoms
• Taxi & Private Hire
• Any other private fleet
• Government fleets

Supporting Quote

"As the targeted early adopters of EVs, fleets comprise an
important market for EV manufacturers," states Kaul. "Even before
the EV is rolled out to consumers, fleets will play an important
role in providing OEMs with valuable field experience through
participation in demonstration programs."

Kaul continues, "In the long-term, the decreased operating cost
of an EV expects to position it as a greener and more economical
mode of commercial transportation. However, there is still a high
level of uncertainty and risk regarding the adoption of EVs by
fleets."

Supporting Resources

For more information about Frost & Sullivan's Automotive
& Transportation practice, please visit target="_blank"
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Registration

• To attend the briefing, email href="mailto://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/johanna.haynes@frost.com">
  johanna.haynes@frost.com your full name, title, company name,
  company telephone number, company email address, city, state and
  country.
• Receive a recorded version of the briefing anytime by
  submitting the aforementioned contact details.

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