Electric GSE starts long before the first vehicle arrives.
A better procurement brief begins with the operation, the charging window and the space between them.
Begin with the working day
An electric equipment specification is only part of a fleet plan. IATA’s Electric GSE guidance treats the transition as an operational and infrastructure question, including charging, safety and economics. Buying a replacement vehicle does not, on its own, answer those questions.
For a useful project brief, map when equipment is working, waiting, moving and available to charge. Record the assumptions as well as the averages: a quiet shift and a disrupted peak period may produce very different requirements.
Connect the vehicle to the site
Bring fleet, facilities and operations teams into the same conversation. A charging location that looks convenient on a plan may add travel or conflict with another activity. Treat the route to the charger, access to it and the time spent there as part of the equipment’s working cycle.
Make the assumptions testable
Define the questions a pilot must answer before selecting the pilot equipment: availability through the shift, charging opportunities, maintenance access and operator feedback. Compare the observed result with the original brief. This is a planning framework; site procedures and equipment instructions remain the operational reference.
Sources & further reading
Sources checked on 16 October 2026. News briefs are original summaries of the linked sources; editorial perspective is labelled separately.