Fleet and mobility management


For years, British companies have rushed to abandon traditional vehicle fl eets in favour of cleaner alternatives. Yet between a lack of charging points and an indifferent government, progress has often been slow. But with Downing Street keen to show off its environmental credentials, and companies working together towards a common green future, might we be on the cusp of a green revolution? Andrea Valentino talks to Helen Miles at Severn Trent about how the Midlands water giant is investing in electric vehicles, what it’ll mean for company fi nances – and how that’s just one part of a broader sustainability mission.


early 50 years ago, in that lost, sweaty Britain of industrial upheaval and public ownership, Ted Heath’s government passed


the Water Act of 1973. Establishing a National Water Council, its chairman nominated by a government minister, the law also created ten new water authorities. Unsexily blunt, their names speak to an


age before focus groups: the Northumbrian Water Authority rubbed shoulders with the Wessex Water Authority and the North West Water Authority. Their vast bureaucratic apparatus feels antique too, with their boards of governors and hordes of sinecured staff. As one MP grumbled in 1980, the Thatcher government had been forced to remind authority


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