TL;DR
The Paua Fleet Manager's Guide provides 13 insider tips for businesses transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs), focusing on essential considerations like charging locations and refueling times. As fleet operators migrate from fossil fuels, understanding the new complexities of EV charging is crucial for optimizing operations and enhancing driver experience.
- Paua prepared a full fleet managers guide including "13 insider tips". These blogs break down insights from the experience of the Paua Rangers team over hundreds of hours of engagement with businesses switching to electric vehicles
- Starting with the first two tips every business adopting electric vehicles needs to consider and which the Paua EV charge card supports
Why Electric vehicles (EVs) are now essential for businesses and what you need to consider.
Fleet operators are starting to migrate their fossil-fuelled fleet to electric. Climate change and air quaility are the two biggest drivers of this change. Often this manifests as a push from stakeholders or senior leaders in a business.
With this shift, new fuelling options are on the rise, bringing new language, complexities and opportunities. Nowadays, a broad range of options exist for charging your car. From home charging to rapid and ultra-rapid public charging.
Paua Tip one: The petrol station now exists in three locations; in public, at home and in the workplace
Fundamentally the petrol station has been disaggregated into multiple new locations, requiring businesses to consider different experiences. The most significant change we see is the movement from our universally understood liquid fuel (petrol/diesel) to a new electric fuel.
In addition to managing the complexity of a location, Fleet Managers are focused on improving the driver experience and working with account teams to optimise investment. Managing the time to find, time to charge and time to manage receipts for both driver and fleet manager is the biggest change faced.
Importantly it it takes longer for electricity to be transferred to vehicles that a petrol station re-fill. We must understand the energy equation (see our blog on Three electric infrastructure considerations for Electric Vehicle charging). Charging takes place at two speeds; AC charging (slow to moderately fast chargers at 3-22kW) which can take 6+ hours to several hours, or DC charging (fast, rapid or ultra rapid 50 - 350kW) which can take an hour or less.
Paua Tip two: The biggest fundamental change in the move to electric vehicles and the change from liquid fuels to electricity is the time taken to refuel
The optimisation of operations within fleet management is evolving as a result of EV adoption. Real time data means idle time, asset health, energy optimisation, fraud management and cost projections are now possible to enhance fleet performance and support your transition.
Keep up to speed with all you need to know regarding company electric vehicle charging by following our blog, or better still, why not request a free copy of our dedicated Fleet Manager Guide with 13 Insider Tips To Help You Transition To EVs HERE.
