>> Johanne Ouellet: Hello to everyone.
First of all, thank you to FCM for giving me the opportunity to present the project.
I'm called Johanne Ouellet, Vice-president at YHC Mobilité, at YHC environments.
SAUVéR is a great story that started with municipalities,
that wanted to do something concrete to fight against climate change
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What is SAUVéR?
First of all, it's to meet the transportation needs of municipalities.
The objective of the pilot project was to integrate electrical vehicles
into municipal fleets, each of the municipalities has purchased one or two of these vehicles,
so 10 in total, and this SAUVéR project has resulted in the installation
of nine level-2 kiosk and one level-3.
It allows us to develop car sharing with employees and the community,
and when these vehicles are not used, they are available to the community.
You can reserve on the computer, on a tablet or phone application.
We wanted to optimize the municipal fleet management.
Often, they are under-utilized or misused to use the right vehicle for the right purpose.
It allows to optimize the use of the new municipal electric vehicle.
To have them run avoids the use of a fuel vehicle.
SAUVéR means developing the green electric road concept,
installation of electric service stations with a charging station.
We created an electric charging network, and we reinvented the travel,
the journeys of tomorrow's electric travel.
Several benefits are associated with this pilot project.
First of all, economic profitability for the municipalities.
These fees belong to them. A simple tool that facilitates car sharing.
The platform to book them, the modules that are in the vehicle;
we want to offer a service to citizens for transportation on the whole of the territory
to go to the grocery store, school, sports,
go to the hospital and so on, utilizing the potential of electrical vehicles
to meet community transportation needs.
Reduction of dependence on petroleum products, reduction of the environmental impact
by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector in Québec and Canada,
development of the public transportation service for the community,
local and community revitalizations.
There are challenges of course.
Changing the mindset of municipal employees.
Several employees have their own vehicle, which is used in most cases when it shouldn't be.
Employees receive a financial compensation for using their own vehicle.
Usually, this doesn't help with using an electrical vehicle.
Some people think that making a reservation is too time consuming.
Either they take the keys, or they take a fuel vehicle, and the last one,
the municipality needs to appoint the right people to manage the project and beyond.
You need to have someone in charge of the fleet management for the project to be successful.
Someone who believes in the project.
The project funding of $350,000 from FCM
and this pilot project undertaken in 2018
and three municipalities decided to pursue car sharing.
What are the successes of SAUVéR?
The project brought together six municipalities that shared information
throughout the process with webinars, blogs, meetings.
Overall, the integration of electric vehicles has been very successful
in the participating municipalities.
The first objective was indeed to transfer as far as the use of conventional vehicle.
We have extensive media coverage, nearly 150 newspaper articles, radio interviews and so on.
A project that is making progress.
This project has generated a tremendous amount of interest
from several municipalities in Québec and New Brunswick.
So, we went for a call for proposal for other municipalities
and so we created the SAUVéR-SSé which is for the electric charging stations.
Then we had another project in New Brunswick with five municipalities.
This is still going on right now.
The city project for transportation and electrified transportation,
this was done with seven municipalities.
They have one electric car to share with the community, like this.
The citizen can go to the eco-center, they can go buy furniture,
they can take part in moving activities.
So, these projects are still going on right now.
There's another project, which is called RÉGÎM in Gaspésie, Îles de la Madeleine.
It's an intelligent public transportation and electrified transportation.
This is still going on.
As we're talking there are six municipalities from Gaspésie and Magdalen Island.
This is a project that is done with the Transportation Commission
in Gaspésie and Îles de la Madeleine, and they become the regional operator.
They provide services and they integrate the SAUVéR cars to provide an additional service.
There are three other projects that are also going on.
One in Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard next to Rimouski,
there was one in Val-des-Monts in the Outaouais,
and Malartic, and other municipalities that use the SAUVéR tool.
And this is funded by the FCM.
The ever-evolving tools, we have a new vehicle fleet management platform,
a phone application with new features.
It's a module that adapts to all types of vehicles.
So, strengths and project success are the municipal fleet management solution
through car sharing, excellent communication, blog webinar, and so on and a strong media interest.
Thank you very much for your attention.