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May 1, 2024
We launched Guided Energy to make it easier and cheaper to operate a fleet of electric vehicles. Today, fleets use the Guided Energy platform to streamline real-time EV operations from dispatch to charging to expense management. However, many are struggling with the new variables of electrification - whether it is to understand range, charge time, driver performance, battery health or more. Navigating these new dynamics wrong leads to fewer jobs per day, higher operating costs, unnecessary CAPEX and countless hours wasted. This is why we are launching our new fleet performance toolkit - so that you can measure how EVs perform for your operations and learn what you can do about it.
Using this data, we help fleets understand the real performance across their EV fleet and answer questions like:
What is the real range for each EV?
How is this affected by weather?
By how I load my vans?
What is my route completion / on-time rate?
What is my EV utilisation?
What is the battery health of my EVs?
How are my drivers performing?
Your range, not the OEM’s
Every electric fleet operator knows that the OEM range is just a starting point and not the complete picture. What fleets need is performance data specific to their routes, their loads, their drivers and even their weather.
At Guided, we create real-time range forecasts using millions of historical data points and through advanced range analytics of your upcoming routes, accounting for terrain or weather. The range calculated for each vehicle is based on the reality of your operations, the types of roads the vehicles are driven on and more.
Track and improve EV Utilisation
When deploying EVs, fleets often worry about operational uptime - specifically can they keep their EVs on the road for as long as their diesel fleet. We’ve made the first EV centric dashboard to track and measure real utilisation.
It’s not the EV, it’s you
Driving an EV is nothing like driving it’s polluting counterparts. Driving it like one is a sure way to complete fewer jobs, fail more routes and spend more on your charging bill.
Unfortunately, it can be difficult to identify the reasons behind poor EV performance. Our driver behaviour dashboard makes it easier to identify the lowest range drivers/routes and gives you metrics to understand the reasons behind it.
It’s not the way it used to be
Different EVs degrade at different rates. The battery health can be affected by usage, fast charging, OEM and mileage. Keeping track of which EVs have suffered the most degradation is important in planning future routes. Furthermore, being proactive can help reduce battery degradation.
Read more on our post about residual value.
Bringing it all together
EVs come with new variables but a lot more data than ever before. Using Guided Energy’s fleet performance toolkit, you can understand range, battery health, driver behaviour and opportunities to get more out of every EV.
For a free analysis of your EV and charger performance, get in touch with us by emailing anant@guided.energy
