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GAO-23-105635 1 (2022-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaonua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 October 20, 2022 The Honorable Gary C. Peters Chairman Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney Chairwoman Committee on Oversight and Reform House of Representatives The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly Chairman Subcommittee on Government Operations Committee on Oversight and Reform House of Representatives Federal Vehicle Fleets: Observations on the Transition to Electric Vehicles In fiscal year 2020, federal agencies operated and maintained around 610,000 non-tactical vehicles in their domestic fleets.1 These fleets, ranging from sedans to ambulances to buses, traveled over 4 billion miles and consumed more than 360 million gallons of fuel to help meet a variety of government missions. In December 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14057 calling for all affected federal vehicle acquisitions to be zero-emission vehicles, such as electric vehicles, by 2035, including 100 percent zero-emission light-duty vehicle acquisitions beginning in 2027.2 This order affects approximately 380,000 vehicles within federal fleets as they become subject to replacement.3 1Tactical vehicles are wheeled vehicles designed to meet a variety of needs to support combat operations, such as transporting soldiers and materiel on the battlefield. This report focuses on the domestic fleet because Executive Order 14057 only expressly applies to an agency's activities within the United States, and the head of an agency has discretion to apply the order outside of the United States. Exec. Order No. 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability, 86 FR 70935 (Dec. 8, 2021). 2For the purpose of the Executive Order, the term light-duty motor vehicle means a vehicle of up to and including 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight (i.e., the weight of the empty vehicle plus the weight of the maximum payload that the vehicle was designed to carry) and can include cars, smaller pickup trucks, minivans, vans, and smaller sport- utility vehicles. Medium-duty vehicles are of gross weight between 8,500 and 16,000 pounds, such as larger pickup trucks. Heavy-duty vehicles are a gross weight of 16,000 pounds and above. Exec. Off. of the President, M-22-06, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs through Federal Sustainability (Dec. 8, 2021) (M-22-06 is a memo accompanying Executive Order 14057). 3The Executive Order only applies to executive agencies, as defined by 5 U.S. Code §105, excluding independent regulatory agencies, as defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(5). The U.S. Postal Service, which has a significant number of vehicles, is not subject to the Executive Order. For the purposes of our analysis, we also excluded agencies with fleets smaller than 20 vehicles. GAO-23-105635 Federal Fleet Transition Page 1

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