Within the next decade, a large portion of the U.S. Army’s huge fleet of vehicles could run on battery power. In fact, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) plans to acquire more than 92,000 electric vehicles, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), for nontactical applications between now and 2020.
According to a recent report from Navigant Research, the U.S. Army is bullish on alternative-drive vehicles (ADVs). ““In remote theaters of operations, the cost of moving fuels to forward military locations can be a multiple of the cost of the fuel itself,” says Scott Shepard, a research analyst at Navigant Research