Green fleet A new policy for business vehicles has been in effect in Germany since January 2023, establishing a key foundation for the transformation of our company car fleet. It will help us on our way to achieving climate neutrality in our own business operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2025 at the latest. One component of the new policy concerns the full electrification of our company car portfolio. It sees us commit to only ordering company cars with electric drive systems in Germany from 2023. At the same time, the usage lifetime will be extended from 36 to 48 months to increase resource efficiency.
The process of electrifying our service vehicle fleet, which includes vehicles used by field service technicians, requires more extensive preparations. It necessitates a suitable range of available cars and small and large vans that meet the relevant requirements, in particular those concerning range and loading space. A suitable range of vans is not expected to come onto the market until 2023 onwards. Preparations must also be made for rolling out workplace and home charging infrastructure so that employees have a fully charged vehicle when starting work in the morning.
At the end of 2022, we had around 1 180 electric company cars in our inventory or on order. The strained supply chain situation continues to result in unplanned changes to deliveries of the electric vehicles we have ordered.
E-scooters were introduced as service vehicles throughout Germany in 2022 following successful testing in 2021 as part of our micromobility concept. Some 300 e-scooters have been put into service for our service technicians and engineers. These vehicles are used in a day-to-day work context for traveling short to medium distances, for instance, for setting up internet connections in large cities with limited parking space. Other usage scenarios will be tested in 2023 with a view to expanding e-scooter use to other business areas.
Salary sacrificing scheme: bicycles or e-bikes Since 2015, our salary sacrificing scheme has enabled our employees to sacrifice some of their salary for the purchase of resource-conserving and health-promoting bicycles or e-bikes, which they can lease from their employer for three years. The monthly payments are deducted from the employee’s gross salary. Orders may be placed year-round, via an external leasing partner. In addition to ordering from that partner’s own portfolio, employees have the option of ordering from a bicycle dealer of their own choosing. Deliveries and a local service are available for all of Deutsche Telekom’s locations in Germany. Currently, over 9 000 bicycles are being leased via this scheme.
Green fleet
A new policy for business vehicles has been in effect in Germany since January 2023, establishing a key foundation for the transformation of our company car fleet. It will help us on our way to achieving climate neutrality in our own business operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 2025 at the latest. One component of the new policy concerns the full electrification of our company car portfolio. It sees us commit to only ordering company cars with electric drive systems in Germany from 2023. At the same time, the usage lifetime will be extended from 36 to 48 months to increase resource efficiency.
The process of electrifying our service vehicle fleet, which includes vehicles used by field service technicians, requires more extensive preparations. It necessitates a suitable range of available cars and small and large vans that meet the relevant requirements, in particular those concerning range and loading space. A suitable range of vans is not expected to come onto the market until 2023 onwards. Preparations must also be made for rolling out workplace and home charging infrastructure so that employees have a fully charged vehicle when starting work in the morning.
At the end of 2022, we had around 1 180 electric company cars in our inventory or on order. The strained supply chain situation continues to result in unplanned changes to deliveries of the electric vehicles we have ordered.
E-scooters were introduced as service vehicles throughout Germany in 2022 following successful testing in 2021 as part of our micromobility concept. Some 300 e-scooters have been put into service for our service technicians and engineers. These vehicles are used in a day-to-day work context for traveling short to medium distances, for instance, for setting up internet connections in large cities with limited parking space. Other usage scenarios will be tested in 2023 with a view to expanding e-scooter use to other business areas.
Salary sacrificing scheme: bicycles or e-bikes
Since 2015, our salary sacrificing scheme has enabled our employees to sacrifice some of their salary for the purchase of resource-conserving and health-promoting bicycles or e-bikes, which they can lease from their employer for three years. The monthly payments are deducted from the employee’s gross salary. Orders may be placed year-round, via an external leasing partner. In addition to ordering from that partner’s own portfolio, employees have the option of ordering from a bicycle dealer of their own choosing. Deliveries and a local service are available for all of Deutsche Telekom’s locations in Germany. Currently, over 9 000 bicycles are being leased via this scheme.