SoCalGas Adds Ford E-Transit Vans To Its Fleet

While retail consumer demand for all-electric vehicles is lagging a bit behind expected levels, that isn’t true of the commercial fleet world, where those entities are gravitating toward EVs in a big way. In that realm, EVs make a lot of sense for companies that don’t rack up a lot of miles in a given day and are looking to reduce their operating expenses, as EVs have been proven to do exactly that. Thus far, the Ford E-Transit has been a hot target for a number of companies, and now, another one has joined that list.

That company is Los Angeles, California-based Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), which just announced that it has purchased 21 new Ford E-Transit vans. This addition will help the utility company work towards its goals to replace 50 percent of its over-the-road fleet with alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) by 2025, as well as field a 100 percent zero-emissions fleet by 2035.

“The addition of Ford’s E-Transit electric vans to our fleet represents a significant achievement in SoCalGas’ advancement toward a zero-emissions future,” said Sandra Hrna, vice president, supply chain and operations support at SoCalGas. “By investing in technologies powered by electricity, hydrogen, or renewable natural gas, we are advancing our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and accelerate decarbonization in a sector that has historically been a major contributor to GHG emissions.”

As Ford Authority previously reported, SoCalGas and The Blue Oval are developing a hydrogen fuel cell Ford F-550 prototype with the Department of Energy (DOE). Next year, that vehicle will be tested in real world conditions as another way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen oxide emissions in medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles.

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