Guidebook for Transitioning to an Electric Fleet

by Michael Laird

"Guidebook for Transitioning to an Electric Fleet" is a plain language, step-by-step description of how to target a starting point, assess risks, select vehicles, and get electrical charging, while ensuring a positive financial result. Special situations, e.g., school buses, large multi-site fleets, government fleets, are described in more detail. The booklet describes the overall sequential flow of a pilot project. Each phase has references to Appendices containing very detailed data collection and tasks to complete. Your pilot project will lay a solid foundation of assets and experience which can be extended into a large, successful rollout program across your organization.

36 pages, Paperback

Published March 24, 2021

About the author

Michael Laird has lived and traveled all over the world and worked in a large number of jobs and occupations ranging from lifeguard, selling appliances, and running a rifle range early on and, later, as a missile launch crew commander, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, a captain in special ops and, for some time now, as a contractor/consultant in the field of software development.

He currently lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife Linda. With four grown children between the two of them, they are expecting this to eventually lead to grandchildren. Even so, they still consider themselves too young to be grandparents. Currently they are between dogs.

The Forged Prince is his first published novel.