Fleet Transition Climate Impact Report System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Transitioning a vehicle fleet to electric vehicles is complex and costly, with entities facing challenges in identifying available incentives, market disruptions, and optimizing the transition process to meet emission reduction goals.
Innovation Solution
A system generates a fleet transition climate impact report that provides a recommended electrification schedule, including events and goals, optimized for the entity's specific fleet, leveraging current metrics, vehicle estimates, and historical data, and offers financial assistance to aid in the transition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If an entity transitions its entire vehicle fleet to electric vehicles at once, then emission reduction goals are achieved more quickly, but financial costs and market disruptions increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the fleet transition process into multiple phases through a recommended fleet electrification schedule. Instead of transitioning the entire fleet at once, the system divides it into incremental electrification events with specific target goals for different time periods, making the complex transition more manageable and less financially burdensome while still achieving emission reduction goals over time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis and planning by generating a comprehensive fleet transition climate impact report before the actual transition begins. This includes evaluating current fleet metrics, estimating vehicle parameters, identifying available incentives, and creating a recommended electrification schedule, allowing the entity to prepare financially and operationally before implementing the transition.
2Measurement precision
If an entity seeks detailed vehicle parameter estimates and customized transition plans, then accuracy of emission reduction planning improves, but computational resources and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by estimating vehicle parameters only for vehicles that are part of the transition plan or likely to be replaced, rather than calculating detailed parameters for every vehicle in the fleet. This reduces computational resources while maintaining sufficient accuracy for emission reduction planning.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses historical entity fleet metric sets and stored vehicle parameter data as templates or copies to estimate parameters for similar vehicles, reducing the need for extensive new computations while maintaining reasonable accuracy for planning purposes.
3Measurement precision
If an entity stores and processes complete historical fleet metric sets, then accuracy of current fleet analysis improves, but network bandwidth and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary historical fleet metric data needed for current analysis rather than storing and processing complete historical datasets. By identifying and retrieving only relevant parameters from historical records, the system maintains analysis accuracy while reducing storage requirements and network bandwidth consumption.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for generating a fleet transition climate impact report for an entity. An example method includes receiving a fleet transition climate impact report request and determining a current entity fleet metric set and a current vehicle estimate metric set. The example method further includes generating a recommended fleet electrification schedule. The example method further includes generating the fleet transition climate impact report and providing the fleet transition climate impact report.