Michigan Business Beat | Tim Easterwood, BizFleets All About September 8, MI-eFleet - EV SUMMIT 2023

The video originally loaded on September 4, 2023. Chris Holman welcomes Tim Easterwood, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BizFleets, Rochester, MI. Welcome Tim, please share a bit about your career. You are the Founder and CEO, Let the Michigan business community know more about BizFleets? The MI-eFleet - EV SUMMIT 2023 is coming up tell us about that. Who will be there? What else should we know about the summit? When and Where is the summit? M1 Concourse; That's The Perfect Automotive Events & Entertainment Venue - tell us more? (Here are some more points Tim shared with MBN about BizFleets and their efforts: Especially to understand his business and the MIeFLEET program that was discussed in this video interview. -2020 to Present - push by the Biden Administration to reduce CO2 emissions, especially by reducing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and replacing them with electric vehicles *2022 Biden Administration provided approximately $500 million to 12 states including Michigan under the Build Back Better program to help states begin the transition to reducing their carbon footprint. Michigan was one of the states *February 2023 - Governor Whitmer announced she was committing $45M to the Clean Fleet Initiative in the 2024 budget which would provide Michigan cities, counties, public school districts, and universities/community college funds to begin transitioning their fleet vehicles to EVs. *BizFleets, a Michigan-based fleet management company that helps governments and businesses manage their fleets of vehicles, developed a program (MIeFLEET) that was designed to provide technology and resources for the State and the public entities to accomplish the Governor’s $45M goal of assisting public entity fleets in Michigan to begin transitioning their fleet to EVs *MIeFLEET program powered by BizFleets gained support from the Michigan legislature and has been recommended for approval in the House, Senate, and the Governor *Within 12 months, The MIeFLEET would triple the number of EVs thr