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Commission reviews city vehicle use and potential for shared-use, efficiency and electrification
Summary
Members reviewed a clean-energy work-group idea to study city vehicle utilization, identify underused vehicles, and explore shared‑use scheduling and future electrification or hybrid replacements timed with vehicle replacement cycles.
Commissioners discussed an analysis of city vehicle use that would identify underutilized, assigned vehicles and evaluate opportunities for shared use, scheduling systems, and more efficient replacements when vehicles reach end of life.
Maria and other commissioners noted existing fleet data compiled during the clean energy plan that lists replacement timing and mileage. The proposed next step is a deeper, department-specific analysis to identify vehicles that sit unused and to test shared‑use reservation systems (for example, Outlook-based reservation or an app). Commissioners mentioned the potential to partner with a UW Green Bay graduate student or intern to analyze vehicle usage and recommend consolidation opportunities.
On electrification, staff reported recent purchases are hybrids rather than full electric vehicles, citing infrastructure and procurement considerations. The police department and Metro Transit already use some all‑electric vehicles but most city vehicle procurements in near term are hybrids. Commissioners discussed the need to align replacement schedules with charging infrastructure planning to make all‑electric purchases feasible in the future.
Work-group leaders were asked to consider a pilot analysis and to identify data needs (vehicle logs, assignment patterns, replacement timelines) so that a student or intern could produce a targeted recommendation for the commission and for fleet managers.
