with Flex-Fuel and Hybrid Vehicles Central Management Services State of Illinois Barb Bonansinga

1. Building a Greener Fleet with Flex-Fuel and Hybrid Vehicles Central Management Services State of Illinois Barb Bonansinga

2. BalancingFleet Efficiency, Costs and the Environment • Alternative fuels • FFVs and hybrids • Overall fuel economy • Smaller carbon footprint Illinois: a Case Study

3. Chapter 1: Fleet Efficiency Smaller fleet lowers costs, emissions • Governor’s 2003 Executive Order #2 required CMS to: • Cut fleet size and costs • Promote use of alternative fuels and vehicles • As fleet manager, CMS worked with agencies to cut underutilized/older vehicles to reduce operating costs • Result: 11% cut in fleet size • Over $17 million in savings • Major reductions in emissions

4. Benefits • Nearly 1,600 fewer vehicles consuming fuel, requiring maintenance, polluting the environment • New vehicle purchases now justified for more accountable spending of tax dollars • Standardized process of justifying vehicles in fleet • Reduced age/mileage of remaining fleet lowers maintenance costs

5. Chapter 2: Alternative Fueled Vehicles Use E-85 and Biodiesel Biofuels • Recognize value of environmental stewardship • Support more E85 FFVs in fleet • Look for most fuel-efficient/ environmentally friendly vehicles that meet agency needs • Provide vehicles and fuel to implement vision

6. Converting Fleet to FFVs and Hybrids Number of FFVs and Hybrids in Use • 41% of Illinois fleet now alt-fueled • >5,000 vehicles use biofuel • 2,351 E85 FFVs and • 2,700 Biodiesel-capable • +38 Hybrids • 4 of world’s first E85 Hybrids • Fewer large vehicles/SUVs when smaller/more efficient vehicles will do

7. Projecting Fleet Conversion To FFV, hybrid, 5% biodiesel-capable • Vehicle Current 2010 _____2015 • E-85/FFV 19% 27% 67% • B-5 21% 22% 22% • Hybrid .3% 2% 10% • Nearly total conversion by 2015

8. Chapter 3: Develop a Biofuels Infrastructure Encourage commercial availability • Started with 14 stations, mostly government sites • Target private vendors using fleet purchase data • Direct grant monies for E85 site development • Exempt State taxes to incent citizens to use biofuel • Make biodiesel available for fleet at government tanks via statewide master contracts

9. Results • Fleet has consumed 370,000 gallons E85 and over 2.4 million gallons 2% biodiesel • 2% now increased to 5% and 20% • Today, over 150 commercial E85 stations statewide sell biofuel to citizens/drivers • 1 station sold 300,000 gallons in 1 month! • Working with fleet card/vendors to make measuring easier and expand sites/availability

10. Communications: spread the knowledge • Maps, decals, keychains • Websites, memos, press events

11. Conversion from Conventional Fuels Making the transition • Nearly 2% of total gas consumed since 2005 has been converted to E85 • 29.4% of diesel converted to biodiesel • Overall, 25% of fleet fuel is biofuel

12. Chapter 4: Reduce Fleet Fuel Consumption Saving green = more green • Use justification template so we buy most efficient vehicle that can do the job incorporating lifecycle costs • Developed RFPs for hybrid/electric vehicles for maximum fuel efficiency • Encouraged manufacturers to build more fuel-efficient FFVS plus E85 hybrid (combining fuel efficiency with biofuels) and buying them • Reduce idling

13. Reductions in Fuel Consumption • FY04        FY05        FY06 •    Gallons   14.1M     13.0M      12.7M • Projections from spending records • Consumed approx 10.9 million* gallons of biofuel in FY07 • * Actual: using newer/ better fleet card data

14. Chapter 5: Reduce Carbon Footprint • Reduced CO2Green House Gas (GHG) emissions by 271,000 kg through use of E85 • Displaced 370,000 gallons of gasoline with E85 – reducing foreign oil dependency • Using homegrown biofuels made from Illinois corn (nation’s #2 producer) and soybeans (#1) – promote state’s economy and create jobs • Reduced fuel consumption with smaller/more efficient fleet

15. Chapter 6: Sustain Progress • Identifying goals for fleet to further reduce overall fuel consumption for reduced costs • Setting goals for fleet to further cut GHG emissions and provide smaller carbon footprint • Illinois’ goal-6% reduction in GHG emissions by 2010 for fleet and facilities = 60,000 tons/year

16. Sustainability Tools • Buy-in from elected officials, state officials, agency directors and coordinators, fleet drivers essential • Fleet centralizing efforts/taking lead • Helping agencies understand what, where, how, why we should use biofuels/green fleet • Solid laws, executive orders and policies enforcing message to meet goals • Constant communication – via training, interstate signs, pamphlets, decals, keychains, websites, email reminders and news media

17. Letting Citizens Know Where Fuel Is IDOT maps and Interstate signs

18. Regulatory and Compliance Tools • Clean Air Act: Illinois exceeded compliance consistently • E-PACT: Illinois exceeds compliance with over 1,000 banked credits • Executive Order #2: Justify the fleet • Executive Order #4: Grow biofuels consumption/alternative-fuel vehicles • Public Act: Requires new fleet vehicles be E85/FFV, hybrids or 5% biodiesel capable, as of July 1, 2007

19. Future Direction – Forging Ahead • Stay current with technology, mandates and requirements • Be familiar with metrics of environmental stewardship • Set baselines and goals and track progress • Maintain/expand buy-in of stakeholders and troubleshoot • Gain support of leadership, rules, policies and laws to implement

20. Illinois, a Leader in Alternative Fuels 2005 Honda Environmental Leadership Award Top 50 Hybrid Fleets & Top 100 Alt-Fuel Fleets by Automotive Fleet Magazine

21. Government Fleets: Green Fleet Leaders