ARI Launches Interactive Video Series
The dynamic video series explores complex business challenges throughout the vehicle’s lifecycle to help viewers maximize their fleet’s revenue-generating capabilities
ARI® has launched an all-new interactive video experience designed to help fleet stakeholders successfully navigate their complex business challenges. The eight-part video series, highlights how an organization’s fleet investment can influence the company’s overall success, providing insight that allows viewers to maximize their fleet’s revenue-generating potential.
“For most organizations, fleet represents a significant investment but all too often, fleet is viewed as a cost center with a myopic focus on simply containing costs,” said Rick Tousaw, executive vice president and chief commercial officer, ARI. “One of the goals of this video series is to change the lens through which fleet is viewed and help stakeholders solve their real-world business challenges that transcend fleet.”
Take Your Telematics Data Even Further: 3 Ways It Can Support Your Fleets’ Safety Initiatives
By: Tony Vinciguerra, Chief Operating Officer at Driving Dynamics
Despite 77 percent of fleets using telematics, most are not taking full advantage of the benefits offered by these systems.
Since the technology is embedded in the vehicle, the system provides fleet managers real-time information which can be used to improve more than just vehicle efficiencies and lower fuel costs. A somewhat known, but not yet fully understood area for this technology, is that it can be used to support companies’ safety initiatives. The telematics devices actually allow fleet managers to analyze drivers’ performances more accurately than ever before.
However, according to a 2018 survey, only 43 percent of fleet companies use telematics systems to measure performance. That means more than half of corporations are missing out on an opportunity to further elevate their fleets’ safety.
Five Myths About Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars could change our lives, announcing an era of greater convenience, improved productivity and safer roads.
Driverless cars are attracting huge investment from traditional automakers, established tech giants and smaller start-ups with promises that may or may not be kept.
Autonomous cars will mean fewer private ones, is just one of the most persistent myths.
Read more at The Washington Post.
6 Hidden Costs Of Government Inaction On Climate Change
Federal inaction on climate change will lead to hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, by the federal government's own estimates.
But there are less obvious costs Americans face because we lack a stable climate policy.
Interest rates paid by renewable energy developers in the U.S., China, and Germany were analyzed, and found that U.S. developers pay much more. Why? Because there’s so much policy uncertainty that financial investors perceive them to be risky and are much less likely to give low interest rates.
Read the article at Forbes.
Pop-Up Chargers Bring Practical On-Street Charging Solution
Pop-up charging hubs are to start springing up on curbs in the UK – and potentially globally – to provide a unique solution to the issue of on-street charging.
According to research, 50% of urban drivers in the UK park on-street at night.
The UEone from British charging start-up Urban Electric Networks solves this by providing fast charging hubs in residential streets and on-street public parking bays that can facilitate overnight smart charging to minimize impact on the grid while retracting during the day to avoid impacting pedestrians and other road users.
Read the article at International Fleet World.
