First Name | Matthew |
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Last Name | Cannon |
Email Address | Matthew.Cannon@Brightview.com |
Affiliation | Brightview Landscape Services |
Subject | Reasonable Time Frame to Transistion |
Comment | While I may not be in CA, I work for a landscape contracting company that services a large portion of the state. Also many legislative items that CA does affects and tends to influence other states. With that said, we at BrightView and frankly most landscape contracting industry do care about the environment and are constantly finding ways to lower our impact. Many of us, including BrightView have already embraced alternative fuel machinery and electric. However given the entire industry has been using combustion engines that run of diesel, unleaded, and mix for well over a 100 years it will take time to retool our fleets, crews, business models, pricing to customers and vendors, and train our employees. The landscape contracting industry is open to moving to electric power sources. However we have to change how we setup our trucks in trailers in order to be able to store batteries, charging stations, solar panels, and buy all new equipment. We also have to stock new spare parts, tools, and re train mechanics. This is a very large investment to make. Also we need to analyze our costs and efficiencies with this equipment and make sure we are charging our customers accordingly otherwise we risk going out of business and putting more people out of work. All this items take a lot of time to analyze, organize, spend, and assemble to be able to continue to same level of service to our customers. In closing a 2 year deadline to make all the above happen is simply not possible. It does not make business sense nor industry sense to make that change that fast. Our vendors would not even be able to fulfill orders. Also with this fast deadline this will push companies to simply buy their products out of state, thus decreasing commerce and the economy within CA and putting an undue burden on the vendors out of state and that in turn will put a burden on the purchasers in those states. That in turn won't fix your problem. Give the industry a reasonable time frame to adjust, adapt, and evolve. Lastly many of the landscape contractors are not large multi million companies. Meaning they simply do not have the capitol to change their fleets over to fully electric either at all or in this timeframe. Please consider providing a more reasonable deadline. We landscape industry and the manufacturers of these products do welcome this change however just in a more organic reasonable time. Thank you. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2021-11-18 14:30:19 |
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