What is assessed
- Fleet transition strategy and board review.
- Battery-electric versus hydrogen economics.
- Depot charging and infrastructure constraint review.
- Payload-sensitive HGV operations.
- Procurement, pilot and investment case pressure-testing.
Questions the work can answer
- Which routes can electrify without disrupting the workload?
- Where does payload loss change the business case?
- Does hydrogen solve a real constraint or add another dependency?
- What does the board need to believe for this transition plan to work?
What the client receives
- Route and workload assumption review.
- Technology suitability matrix.
- TCO and sensitivity interpretation.
- Risk memo for pilot design, procurement or board approval.
Relevant experience
I co-founded and formerly led Element 2, a hydrogen-refuelling business. My published biography and public operating references describe work connecting vehicles, fuel supply, sites, operators and infrastructure. That experience informs the comparison of hydrogen, batteries and the operating constraints of a fleet; the appropriate answer depends on the duty cycle and evidence.
Information useful for the assessment
An initial description of the fleet, the decision and the timescale is enough to establish scope. Detailed work may need route and duty-cycle data, mileage, payload, vehicle replacement plans, depot power availability, charging or refuelling windows, fuel and electricity assumptions, utilisation and the constraints that cannot change. Missing information can be identified before a detailed model is commissioned.
Outputs are agreed for the operating or investment decision. A review can identify where better route data, infrastructure evidence or sensitivity testing is needed before procurement or capital approval.