Fleet Analysis for AFV Application
Specialized knowledge and experience are required when choosing
the right vehicles and fuels for your fleet.
- What fuels are readily
available in your operating area?
- What vehicles are commercially
available today, and what’s coming online in the near future?
- How
do the operating characteristics of your fleet help determine the
right fuels and vehicles?
- Are there unspoken issues you should
be aware of?
AFVi offers a complete fleet analysis to help determine what your
AFV and fuel choices are, and then determine which applications are
best for your fleet. Our analysis includes an AFV-visional vehicle
inventory, an analysis of vehicle applications and operating characteristics,
a projection of future vehicle needs, an alternative fuel-visional
fueling inventory and a system for matching existing fleet vehicles
with AFV alternatives. Contact us today
for more information.
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Alternative Fuel Choice Evaluation
Often, there is more than one alternative fuel that fleet managers
can choose from. How do you make the “right” choice? There
are numerous criteria that should be used to evaluate your alternative
fuel choices and select the best one—or ones—that meet
your needs.
AFVi’s Alternative Fuel Choice Evaluation process helps you
evaluate your fuel choices against the critical criteria, including
vehicle applications, geographic location, fuel availability, fuel
cost, fuel source, long-term pricing projections and more. For
more information, contact us.
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CNG Fuel Station
Sizing & Design
If you’re a fleet manager thinking about building a new CNG
fuel station (or adding capacity to an existing station), AFVi can
help you make sure the station is sized and designed to meet the current
and projected needs of your fleet.
Many times, fleet managers who are inexperienced with the intricacies
of CNG fueling will purchase equipment only to find either that the
fueling infrastructure has too much capacity (and therefore they
spent too much money) or, even worse perhaps, the capacity is too small
or somehow inadequate to serve the real needs of their fleet.
There are literally hundreds of specific considerations that go into
the sizing and design of a CNG station. AFVi has helped dozens
of fleet managers evaluate their fleet and size and design a CNG fuel
station that meets current needs, and can easily be upgraded in the
future to handle fueling for a growing fleet. Contact
us today to let us know how we can help you in this process.
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CNG Fuel Station Bid Specifications
- Are you a fleet manager getting ready to put a CNG fuel station out
to bid?
- Do you have specifications that GUARANTEE your fuel
requirements will be met?
- Should you develop an equipment specification
or a performance specification?
- What are the advantages and
disadvantages of each?
AFVi can help you develop a CNG fuel station specification that ensures
your fuel requirements will be met at the lowest cost possible. Contact
us today for more information.
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CNG Fuel Station Contractor Selection
- Do you know the real criteria for evaluating CNG fuel station bids?
- How
do you select the right contractor?
- Is the key the lowest bid,
or….?
- Do you know the performance history of the companies
that are bidding?
AFVi has 20 years’ experience helping clients evaluate CNG fuel
station bids and select the best possible contractor for the job. We
can save your organization time, energy, money and RISK in the process
of selecting CNG fuel station contractors. We use a proven methodology
for evaluating bids…and we have satisfied clients as a result. Contact
us today to let us know how we can help you select the right CNG
fuel station contractor.
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CNG Fuel Station Construction Management
When building a CNG fuel station, special expertise is required to
oversee the construction management process and make sure the equipment
is being installed according to specifications and code. Many
times, fleet managers attempt to manage their own CNG fuel station
construction process. If those fleet managers are inexperienced
with CNG fueling equipment, this can be risky and costly business
down the road.
AFVi knows how to help you be sure you are getting the CNG fuel station
equipment that was specified in your Request for Proposals AND that
meets all appropriate national and local building codes. Contact
us today to discuss your CNG fuel station project.
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CNG Fuel Station Trouble Shooting
- Is your CNG fuel station performing optimally?
- Is it leaking
oil into NGVs fueling at the station, creating operating problems with
the vehicles?
- How would you know?
- What are the solutions?
For over 20 years, AFVi has been assisting CNG fuel station operators
trouble shoot specific problems and find solutions that work AND are
cost effective. If you need assistance, contact us today.
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CNG Fuel Station Safety Audit
- Has your CNG station been operating for awhile?
- Are you certain
that it is operating safely?
- Are there components of the station
that create risk because of their age or maintenance practices?
As part of our CNG Fuel Station Safety Audit program, AFVi performs
a 32-point evaluation of your CNG station, identifying specific issues
that must be addressed and recommending precise measures to be taken. The
Audit is followed up with a written report that calls out the issues
and corrective measures. For more information,
contact us today.
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CNG Fuel Station Maintenance Plan
There are daily, weekly, monthly and periodic maintenance practices
required to keep any CNG fuel station performing at top condition and
to prevent costly breakdowns. Failure to understand and implement
these relatively simple practices is costly both to fuel station operators
and the owners of all the vehicles that fuel at that station. It
shortens the life of the fueling equipment, and perhaps more importantly,
puts vehicles at risk for problems like oil carryover.
AFVi provides the most comprehensive and practical maintenance plan
available in the U.S. It includes an on-site evaluation of the
specific fuel station or stations in question, and a recommended plan
for all preventative maintenance that must be undertaken. If
you’d like an evaluation of your CNG fuel station maintenance
practices, contact us.
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CNG Fuel Station Upgrade Analysis
Fleet managers who operate a CNG fuel station often expand the number
of vehicles in the fleet, and therefore, need to upgrade or modify
their station.
- How do you go expand or upgrade the station in
the most economical fashion?
- Whose equipment should you select?
- What
size equipment should you plan for?
- What companies should you
trust to do the job?
For over 20 years, AFVi has been helping fleet managers add to capacity
or upgrade equipment in their CNG fuel stations. We help you
plan the upgrade in advance so that it is performed in the most economical
and practical manner. Our analysis includes an evaluation of
the existing equipment as well as the fueling requirements for the
planned expansion or modification. This analysis can save
you hours of research, and perhaps more importantly, unnecessary capital
expense. For more information, contact
us today.
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CNG Fuel Station Funding Analysis
CNG fuel stations are composed of equipment that last for years, and
they can require significant capital outlays to install. If you’re
considering building a new CNG station or expanding an existing one,
funding may be available for not only the capital to build the station
but for the actual fuel dispensed.
AFVi can work with your organization to help you determine federal,
state and local incentives to help offset the cost of construction
and the fuel itself. One of our recent clients received
over $500,000 in fuel incentives from the federal government that he
had no idea he had coming. We can help you, too. Contact
us today for assistance.
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Alternative Fuel Contract Negotiation
- Are you negotiating a contract with an alternative fuel provider?
- Do
you know what the “standard” terms in the industry are?
- Are
you certain you’re getting the best deal possible?
- Do you
know what fuel quality or performance to specify and how to ensure
you’ll be getting it?
- What will be the responsibilities
of the fuel provider if the performance specifications are not met?
There are literally dozens of questions like these that should be
asked to help you make sure you’re getting spec-quality fuel
at the absolute best price. AFVi knows the questions…and
we know the “right” answers too. For
more information, contact us today.
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