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Hampshire County Council: Electric highways fleet feasibility

Zero28 October 2026By Dynamon

Hampshire County Council is working towards carbon neutrality by 2050. With its highways contractor M Group, and under the Department for Transport’s ADEPT Live Labs 2 programme, the council asked Dynamon to test the highways fleet in ZERO — cars, vans and the winter gritters — against historical telematics, before any electric vehicles were ordered. M Group’s vans and heavy vehicles from the same study are in the M Group case study.

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Partner

M Group

Key outcomes

  • 310,639 miles of historical telematics from September to November 2025, covering 120 vehicles and 5,672 duty cycles. The 44 gritters added 22,709 miles from their routes.
  • Home charging unlocked the cars. Range was not the issue. A 7 kW charger where the car already parks made almost all of them feasible.
  • Gritters fitted 50 kW at the depot. Most winter routes could be covered with rapid depot charging. A few longer days still need a charge on the road.

What ZERO showed

The council’s highways work is short-mileage: inspections, maintenance vans and 44 gritters that leave the depot and have to be ready to go out again. ZERO replayed historical telematics from September to November 2025 — 310,639 miles and 5,672 duty cycles from 120 vehicles. The gritters did not carry the same telematics, so their routes became a further 22,709 miles and 424 duty cycles.

Each recorded day was tested with 7 kW charging at the depot, 50 kW rapid charging at the depot, home charging where a car or van is taken home overnight, and on-the-go charging where the day could not be finished from the depot alone. The battery was large enough for a typical day. Cars needed the home charger. Vans needed 50 kW for the short time they spend at the depot. The gritters were largely feasible on rapid charging at the depots they already use. The council can order against that sequence — cars first, vans once depot charging is in place, gritters as electric winter vehicles become available.

Heatmap of Hampshire highways fleet movements, busiest around Winchester, Southampton, Basingstoke and Portsmouth
Where the fleet drove, from the historical telematics. Red is where vehicles spent the most time; blue is lighter coverage across the county.
White Hampshire Highways van in red and yellow rear markings, with Fostering Hampshire Children on the side
Many of the council’s vans are taken home, so a depot charger on its own does not cover the week.

A fleet-wide view, from the vehicles’ own records, is what Dynamon prepared for Hampshire County Council before it commits to electric cars, vans and gritters.

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