Electric vehicles require seven new roles for fleet operations to monitor and apply new streams of vehicle information.
If you’re about to embark on your fleet electric vehicle pilot, it’s better to be prepared for the challenges of connected car data before you start.
Photo: Getty Images / greenbutterfly
Evs are more than just an internal combustion engine (ICE) swapped for a battery. They’re computers on wheels — and they bring new and heightened requirements around connectivity, software management, and data mining along with them.
Here’s how their operation adds to fleet managers’ (and drivers’) roles, particularly as it relates to data, though this isn’t a complete picture. It starts with managed EV charging and extends to managing data from both the vehicles and drivers:
Monitoring EV charging
Understanding battery state-of-charge
Managing electricity rate fluctuation
Accessing public EV charging
Reimbursing for home EV charging
Managing electric vehicle supply equipment
Managing vehicle, driver data
How do you minimize the number of applications to manage, making sure those applications connect and deliver the right data reliably? That depends on the functionality offered by your providers and your fleet situation.
Learn more about connected electric fleets in Automotive Fleet
An experimental model home shows how residential charging could enable electric fleet operations by allowing drivers to take EVs home.
Read More →
Lucid and Uber partner to provide at least 35,000 vehicles, backed by new investments totaling $750 million to support the deployment of autonomous fleets.
Read More →
Learn about a new level of energy management that helps fleets control costs while maintaining service reliability. [VIDEO]
Read More →
AVILOO recently appointed Brett Lippel as CEO of its North American operations with the intent to drive nationwide adoption of advanced battery-testing tech.
Read More →
ChargePoint deployed more than 90 EV charging ports, adding new Level 2 infrastructure and management tools to support public and employee access to charging in Southern California.
Read More →
Recent announcements from two automakers underscore a significant shift in the electric vehicle market, driven by EV losses and changing strategies. [VIDEO}
Read More →
A new online calculator from Coltura estimates how much drivers can save by switching to an EV, using real-time local fuel and electricity costs.
Read More →
Off-grid charging assets have proven to be much more than stopgaps. Fleets can use those tools to hedge against grid delays, capacity bottlenecks, and other uncertainties.
Read More →
Rivian and Uber plan to put the first 10,000 autonomous R2 robotaxis into service starting in 2028 and expand to multiple cities as part of a broader push.
Read More →
Mitchell’s latest EV Collision Insights report found repairable claims for electrified vehicles continued to rise in 2025, even as new BEV sales declined slightly in the U.S.
Read More →
