Origin is making the switch to electric vehicles easier for Australian businesses, plus helping them reduce their carbon footprint and lower operating costs, through a new offering called Origin 360 EV Fleet.
Origin 360 EV Fleet brings together
Taking the complexity out of making the switch to EVs, Origin 360 EV Fleet will provide business customers with tailored EV implementation strategies, fully managed vehicles, charging infrastructure, load management and carbon neutral travel through inclusion of carbon offsets. Customers will also receive reporting and insights to help optimise fleet performance and emissions reduction.
'Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require action across our economy, particularly transportation which is the third largest source of emissions in the country, making accelerating the uptake of EVs in
'Business fleets make up close to half of all new vehicles sales in
'Origin is ideally placed to support businesses to electrify their transportation, with Origin 360 EV Fleet a natural extension of the range of clean energy products and services we already provide to our business customers, including solar and battery solutions.
'We hope Origin's activities will stimulate greater demand for EVs across the Australian market, encourage manufacturers to release more models locally, and grow the second-hand EV market when fleets are upgraded,'
Origin 360 EV brings together all the work Origin is doing to help accelerate the growth of EVs in
Origin is currently undertaking an EV smart charging trial with support from ARENA, is represented on the board of the
In addition, Origin has committed to transitioning all 600 of the company's passenger and light commercial vehicles to electric vehicles by 2030, as the company pursues its own strategy to reduce its carbon emissions to transition to net zero emissions by 2050.
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