SDCC's Fleet Transition & Staff Mobility Hub

The Council developed a Fleet Transition Strategy, which includes five-year and ten-year targets to decarbonise the fleet and ensure the 2030 emission targets are met. In 2024 SDCC continued to transition fleet vehicles away from Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) to help meet our climate targets. A new Fleet Management System was procured in 2024. The new system will assist in monitoring the decarbonisation of the 128 vehicles and 451 plant items that have been identified to be replaced over the next five years.

Recognising that it will take time to introduce a full fleet of electric vehicles, Fleet Management began a pilot to trial Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) in our diesel vehicles in August 2024. This is an interim measure to allow sufficient time to upgrade our EV charging network to enable the purchase of larger volumes of electric vehicles in our smaller fleet and research market
development for alternative fuels in our larger fleet. In 2024 four new EV's were added to the fleet.

Work has also commenced internally on implementing a staff Mobility Hub. This is an ongoing project that when implemented will offer staff the option to take public transport to work and use electric vehicles provided by the Staff Mobility Hub to do any out of office work.