Keeping a fleet running can be a struggle, and while electric vehicles are great, they introduce additional challenges. In this article, we explain how to avoid the most common traps fleet operators fall into.
When managing a fleet of traditional cars, you give the employees a card for fuelling. It’s not that simple with electric vehicles. Employees still have to be reimbursed for their charging costs, but EV-drivers charge at different locations: at home and on the road. That makes correctly reimbursing charging costs challenging. If you use different charging stations and different operators, the process becomes a nightmare.
To simplify the reimbursement process, use a system that collects all charging costs on a single invoice. If the system automatically reimburses your employees, it will save you countless hours during the year.
If your employees charge at different locations, they’ll have to deal with multiple charging apps. That means downloading a collection of apps, adding payment details to each one, and manually collecting all the invoices.
To create a more seamless experience for your drivers, we recommend using a back-end system that offers ‘roaming’. Roaming allows your drivers to use a single app, and have the invoices automatically sent to the employer.
Finding out who charged what, where, can turn into hours of work. But if you pick a system that can give you a complete overview of kWh consumption, and the transactions of each company car, you’ll save hours of work.
We recommend picking a system that natively offers the insights and dashboards you need to keep track of your fleet.
If you have to manage more than a few charging points at your central location, it will twist into a full-time job. We recommend picking a system that offers data transparency, automation and ease of set-up. You’ll also want the ability to manage users through rules and groups.
We also recommend picking a system that offers first-line support and installation. That way, your job won’t morph into tech-support.
If you’re managing an electric fleet, you’ll need onsite chargers. But if your site is more than a few years old, they didn’t design the electric infrastructure for fleet charging. Leaving you to decide if you want to abandon the project or upgrade the infrastructure.
Luckily, you can probably avoid most of the upgrades. If you pick a system and chargers that offer the following features:
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