All businesses are now facing new challenges. Continuously reduce the overall cost of vehicles and reducing the carbon footprint by switching to electric or by improving driving behavior.
Addressing these new challenges is not easy when you don't have the management tools and data you need to make decisions.
Connecting vehicles (embedded telematics) is the 1saintly essential objective for fleet managers: access to data!
Let's take stock of these new challenges
#1. Cost optimization thanks to Big Data
The cost of a vehicle fleet, and more generally that of mobility, is often 2and the most important expenses for businesses. Beyond the obvious costs (rent, fuel, insurance, etc.), other more or less hidden expenses accumulate to finally form the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), which many companies have difficulty estimating.
The Optimum management platform allows collection and centralization of all vehicle data ecosystem: taxation, maintenance, maintenance, tires, tolls, etc.
All costs, thus centralized and synthesized, allow fleet managers to benefit from an informed vision and accurate indicators of the real cost of the fleet.
Even better, the Optimum management platform includes reporting center, that allows you to monitor the evolution of value indicators, and Counseling center, which guides the actions of the fleet manager in its financial choices and optimizations.
Optimum customers thus see, from the first month of operation of the platform and depending on the services activated, i.e. an average saving of 125 euros per month and per vehicle.
#2. Optimizing environmental impact and preparing for the transition to electric vehicles
The other pressing concern of fleet managers, under the effect of growing ecological and fiscal pressures, is the optimization of the carbon footprint.
WLTP, LOM, ZFE, environmental bonus/penalties, etc. define the new fiscal and environmental constraints and opportunities that vehicle fleets must comply with immediately.
The car is in fact largely responsible for the deterioration of our environment. Optimum Automotive also offers valuable tools to help fleet managers meet these new challenges.
The sharing of resources, first of all: Too many company vehicles are still too often parked in car parks, where other employees have mobility needs that are not or poorly met. To remedy this, Optimum Automotive offers managers a complete carsharing and carpooling solution that allows them to pool the “automotive resource”. The implementation of such a solution ultimately makes it possible to reduce the size of the fleet and, therefore, its overall cost and environmental impact.
Driving behavior: the driver of the vehicle has a role to play in terms of environmental impact. Driving behavior has a direct impact on the level of CO2 emitted, as well as on the level of energy consumption and the rate of accidents. The Optimum Automotive platform makes it possible to activate the “Driving Analysis” service, which analyzes individual road behavior in order to identify irresponsible behavior and take the necessary eco-prevention measures (online training, eco-driving courses, etc.).
To go even further in optimizing driving behavior, Optimum Automotive has partnered with Codes Rousseau, allowing companies to access the Easy-Coach training program, composed of 7 modules, each with 20 multiple choice questions.
The switch to electric: a new part of the environmental optimization of vehicle fleets: the electrification of fleets. And this change is getting worse every day:”57% of fleet managers say they use at least one alternative technology, compared to 30% in 2020 and 42% for Europe. They could be 80% use at least one alternative energy within 3 years, according to the Arval Mobility Observatory.
Although promising in many ways, the electrification of the vehicle fleet cannot be done by chance. Optimum Automotive provides managers with tools and indicators to assess, for each vehicle, the relevance of a migration to hybrid or all-electric vehicles.
So yes, these new economic and environmental challenges are necessary. But the changes they involve in vehicle fleets cannot take place without controlling the flow of data that is essential for decision-making.
