The next webinar event in Transport + Energy’s “Explains” series will be delivered on 25 September and focus on ‘the Bridge to EVs’.
The “Explains” series, delivered by Transport + Energy, delves into the challenges facing both industries and attempt to ‘explain’ key topic areas to bust myths and help educate professionals from a variety of different stakeholder groups.
Register for the webinar here.
As part of this series, this new webinar in association with The AA will take a close look at the issue of fleets and how to ‘bridge’ the gap to EVs, as businesses and the public sector accelerate to net-zero.
Including Rightcharge and other industry experts, The AA will look at the various issues around fleet decarbonisation
and electrification through detailed examples.
The webinar will include detailed insight into how the public and private sector can scale up their fleets to EVs and alternative fuelled vehicles, and the various issues around maintenance, data, diagnostics, and technologies required.
Yet it is not only about going electric or using other alternative fuels, in the medium term and future, but also how to reduce carbon right now in the interim period, improving Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions across transport fleets – from frontline logistics to grey fleets – ahead of the 2030 and 2035 targets.
This includes better and more efficient driving patterns, and other ways to scale-up efficiency with the ultimate goal of carbon reduction, as well as holistic approaches to sustainability and ESG that take into account your current fleet, before it goes fully-electric.
The AA will be able to provide detailed insight into how this can be achieved, using best practice examples, case studies from across UK fleets, and its own data and research.
Essentially, it will explain not only how to scale-up such fleet decarbonisation models, but also making sure businesses don’t stand still on sustainability – in between purchasing cycles. It is about ensuring that even with a current fleet of ICE and hybrid vehicles, you can reduce your carbon footprint significantly – as well as accelerating towards a net-zero, decarbonised future.
The webinar will feature:
- Chaired by James Evison, Content Manager, Transport + Energy
- Duncan Webb, Fleet Director, The AA
- Charlie Cook, CEO and Founder, Rightcharge
Topics to be discussed include:
● Case studies of fleet electrification
● The AA’s insight and data on fleet management and sustainability
● Skills and training required to improve emissions
● The changing face of maintenance with EVs and fleet management
● How to futureproof fleets for electrification and other issues to consider
Meet the speakers
James Evison, Content Manager, Transport + Energy
James Evison is an editor specialising in digital content, including work on PPA Award-winning and shortlisted content campaigns and events. He has worked for a number of publishing companies, including RBI, UBM, William Reed, Metropolis and Faversham House. Across a variety of roles, he has developed websites, newsletters and other digital assets, producing, editing and creating best-in-class news, features and other content.
Duncan Webb, Fleet Director, The AA
Duncan boasts a wealth of experience in both operating and supplying services to the fleet industry, with a notable track record of overseeing some of the UK’s largest and most intricate fleets such as Royal Mail and BT. With over 25 years of industry expertise, Duncan has experience as both an operator and a supply across the fleet sector. Responsible for managing the AA’s famous yellow fleet, Duncan is fast becoming a regular commentator on transport topics across the media.
Charlie Cook, CEO and Founder, RightCharge
Charlie is a British entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Rightcharge, launched in 2019. The company offers a software product that simplifies EV fleet charging payments, designed to accelerate the UK’s transition to clean, sustainable transport.
Before Rightcharge, Charlie built his expertise at the intersection of deep science and the energy sector. A trained engineer, he worked at CERN on the next generation of the Large Hadron Collider before becoming a founding member of Octopus Electric Vehicles and Octopus Electroverse, where he helped shape Octopus Energy’s early electric vehicle solutions. He holds a master’s in Climate Change, Management & Finance from Imperial College Business School.
Driven by the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis, Charlie’s mission with Rightcharge is to make sustainable transport an accessible and operational reality for every fleet.
