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Highland Electric Fleets is a turnkey solutions provider that delivers electric school buses (EVSB) to school districts and third-party managed fleet providers (3PMs).
Published October 16, 2020
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Updated October 2, 2024
Power & Utilities
Transportation Electrification
Product Overview
Overview
Highland Electric Fleets is a solutions provider that delivers electric school buses (ESB) to school districts and third-party managed fleet providers. They offer a model involving financing, infrastructure, vehicle deployment, and maintenance in a format that enables ESB acquisition at traditional diesel pricing. Their mission is to eliminate the barriers to better student health and a cleaner environment.
Highland teams up with transportation directors and community leaders to cut the cost and complexity of transitioning school buses to electric vehicles with Electric Fleet Subscription Plans. Their subscription includes everything to integrate electric vehicles into the clients existing fleet. They provide the buses, upgrade the infrastructure, manage charging, train the team, and deliver the service to keep it all running smoothly.
With Highland, the school buses in the electric fleet are custom built to the clients specifications. They will be able to choose from a range of vehicle types and optional features to meet the needs of the community.
Business Model
Highland provides its fleet customers with a full-service solution. It owns and maintains the vehicles under an all-inclusive transportation-as-a-service model.
Technology Innovations
The main difference with their solution is that the subscription includes everything to integrate electric vehicles into their clients existing fleet. They provide buses to their clients specifications, upgrade their infrastructure, manage their charging, train their team, and deliver the service to keep it all running smoothly.
Applications
Highland Electric Fleets is a solutions provider that delivers electric school buses to school districts and third-party managed fleet providers. They provide a full-service solution to their clients.
Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology enables school buses to act as grid assets, and send energy back into the grid during peak demand events. Highland has multiple operational V2G projects in utility service territories across the country. Highland also engages in managed charging for every project, and helps the customer charge during off-peak hours, participating in any TOU rates or Demand Response programs, while ensuring a “full tank” before the morning run.