The Federal Energy Management Program’s (FEMP’s) ZEV Ready designation includes the initial 12 steps of the site-level federal fleet electric vehicle (EV) deployment process organized into four planning areas: Team Ready, Vehicle Ready, Charging Ready, and Commitment Ready.
What Is ZEV Ready?
ZEV Ready is a planning framework to guide and support agency federal fleet stakeholders through the process to deploy zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) at each fleet location. Once the fleet location has successfully completed the planning and design phases, it is designated as ZEV Ready. The site becomes ZEV Active when the stakeholders and fleet are prepared for acquiring, deploying, and operating ZEVs and supporting electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) at the fleet location.
How Does ZEV Ready Support Fleet Management?
The goal of the framework is for the key stakeholders at each fleet location to complete the recommended planning steps, ensure communication across all stakeholders at the fleet location, facility, and headquarters levels, and integrate with other related planning and technical efforts. Once stakeholders have completed the recommended planning steps, the agency fleet site location is self-designated as a ZEV Ready site.
What Are the Components of a ZEV Ready Designation?
The ZEV Ready designation includes four planning component areas: Team Ready, Vehicle Ready, Charging Ready, and Commitment Ready.
Achieve Team Ready status by:
- Defining team roles, responsibilities, and training needs
- Supporting stakeholder coordination and collaboration.
Achieve Vehicle Ready status by:
- Identifying EV candidate vehicles at each site.
Achieve Charging Ready status by:
- Determining EVSE needs at each site
- Designing ZEV charging solutions specific to site characteristics.
Achieve Commitment Ready status by:
- Aligning site EV deployment efforts with overall agency fleet management goals
- Ensuring site leaders coordinate with headquarters fleet management efforts.
What Process Steps Are Included in the ZEV Ready Designation?
As shown below, the ZEV Ready designation includes the initial 12 steps of the site-level federal fleet EV deployment process organized into the four planning areas: Team Ready, Vehicle Ready, Charging Ready, and Commitment Ready. As each site location completes the recommendation actions within each step, they achieve completion designations of Team Ready, Vehicle Ready, Charging Ready, and Commitment Ready.
Team Ready Goals and Steps
Goal: Create and Train Team
Goal: Engage with Key Stakeholders
Vehicle Ready Goals and Steps
Goal: Identify ZEV Opportunities
Charging Ready Goals and Steps
Goal: Identify EVSE Opportunities
Goal: Engage with Utility
Goal: Design EVSE Installation
Commitment Ready Goals and Steps
Goal: Overall Fleet Planning and Strategy
Goal: Financial Planning
Goal: Obtain Leadership Commitment
How Do Site Locations Achieve a ZEV Ready Designation?
Download the ZEV Ready Tracker and email Federal Fleets to begin the ZEV Ready designation process.
Each site location achieves a ZEV Ready designation by completing the recommended actions within the 12 site-level federal fleet EV deployment process steps. An overview of the ZEV Ready designation process is outlined below.
1. Site Location Registers for ZEV Ready Designation
Typically, the agency headquarters fleet manager or site location fleet manager (and/or site ZEV champion) will register the site location for the ZEV Ready designation, including identifying the key site stakeholders. ZEV Ready is a self-designation that includes a list of recommended actions to be completed by each stakeholder.
2. Stakeholders Review Relevant Process Steps
Using the ZEV Ready framework, the site ZEV champion provides each stakeholder with a recommended list of actions to complete for each of the four planning areas of the ZEV Ready designation. The key stakeholders review the detailed discussions of each recommended process step in the ZEV Ready Center and the corresponding actions recommended to achieve the ZEV Ready designation.
3. Stakeholders Complete Recommended Actions
Once each stakeholder completes the recommended actions within each process step, the site ZEV champion will check the recommended action as completed.
4. Site Completes ZEV Ready Designation by Planning Area
Once the site location has completed enough of the actions, it is designated as ZEV Ready in each planning area (Team Ready, Vehicle Ready, Charging Ready, and Commitment Ready).
5. Site Achieves ZEV Ready Designation
After the site has achieved ZEV Ready designation across the four planning areas, the overall site is self-designated as ZEV Ready.