Energy-efficiency increasingly important for municipalities in the purchase of trucks and buses

Today, over half of municipal fleet managers consider energy efficiency to be an essential factor when choosing new vehicles for municipal services including refuse collection, utilities and other services for cities and towns. This is the result of a representative survey commissioned by TÜV SÜD and carried out by market research institute Technomar for the Auto Mobil International 2012 (AMI) trade show. The survey respondents were 150 municipal fleet operators of cities with populations of over 100,000 throughout Germany. Under the motto "Making transport safe and reliable", TÜV SÜD will showcase its broad range of services in Hall 3, stand C22 of the AMI, held in Leipzig between 2 and 10 June.

Administration, road maintenance depots, road cleaning – the target of cutting carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and an ambitious 80 per cent by 2050 also applies to cars for council officers, gritters, street cleaning vehicles and refuse trucks. The relevant ordinance that governs the purchase of new municipal vehicles was recently revised accordingly. The criteria are no longer restricted to purchase price and operating costs, but have been expanded to include energy efficiency. How do the decision-makers of public fleets address this issue? How do they intend to reach the ambitious political targets? What do they think about alternative drive systems, such as electric powertrains? The key result of the representative survey conducted among 150 fleet operators in May 2012 by market research institute Technomar on behalf of TÜV SÜD was that the majority of fleet operators across all political parties proved to be open-minded and showed a positive attitude towards improving energy efficiency.

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