Schneider Electric to deploy electric vehicles for onsite use
Schneider Electric has teamed up with Arval to deploy a car share fleet of electric vehicles for use between its sites in Grenoble, France.
The company employs more than 5,000 people working in 13 sites. The scheme in Grenoble will see a fleet of 12 Renault ZOE EVs made available to employees at the group’s four main sites – Technopole, Electropole, PLM and Polytech – for a six-month trial period, with plans to subsequently double this to 14 vehicles.
Research carried out in 2015 among the 4,000 employees at these sites found that 60% of them regularly travel between the sites, once or twice a week or two or three times a month. Most journeys are done with employees’ own vehicles and the majority of them rarely use an alternative mode of transport. However, the survey found that 86% of the employees concerned were interested in setting up a fleet of clean vehicles dedicated to trips between sites.
The service makes use of the Arval l’AutoPartage car sharing service and gives employees the possibility to reserve a vehicle up to 20 minutes before their departure.
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