A small but increasing percentage of current relocations involve electric vehicles that cannot meet an assumed distance requirement of 300 miles per day. Image: Nick Starichenko/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffGSA has proposed a change to relocation reimbursement policies that will allow for agency-paid shipment of employee-owned alternative fuel vehicles—mostly meaning electrically powered—in situations where that would not be provided for gasoline-fueled vehicles.
Proposed rules in the March 14 Federal Register say that a “small but increasing percentage of current relocations involve AFVs.” Current rules allow for shipping a personal vehicle only if the relocation is at least 600 miles away, they add, based on an assumption that the employee instead could drive a gasoline-powered vehicle at least 300 miles per day.
“However, not all current AFVs are able to meet this distance requirement,” the notice says, and “by the time an AFV travels 300 miles, it could take longer than a day or require a circuitous route depending on fueling availability along the route to the new permanent duty station.”
Under the rules, agencies would have to take into account the types of fueling stations available and where those stations are located when deciding whether to authorize shipment of an alternative fuel vehicle, and the extra time and per diem that they otherwise would have to pay if the employee drove to the new site.
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