NAFA Webinar: How to Preserve Fleet Value and Control Fleet Costs
When: Wednesday, December 19. 12:00 PM -- 1:00 PM EST
Instructor: Jim Rice, Vice President, Mid-Market Sales, Lytx
You have a gold mine sitting in your parking lot: your fleet. In this webinar, you'll learn strategies to help you protect that rolling investment so you can improve cash flow. Join us to hear about tools that you can use immediately to preserve fleet value-including tips on preventive maintenance, vehicle acquisition, and safety.
Hyundai Makes Confident $6.7Billion Bet on Hydrogen
Hyundai Motor Group is going all-in on hydrogen fuel cells with a $6.7 billion investment that will see the company produce 700,000 fuel-cell systems annually by 2030. Of those, 500,000 a year will be destined for passenger and commercial vehicles under the Hyundai and Kia car brands.
"We are confident that hydrogen power will transcend the transportation sector and become a leading global economic success," said Euisun Chung, executive vice chairman of Hyundai Motor Group. Hyundai's "FCEV Vision 2030" plan includes the opening of a new hydrogen fuel-cell plant in Chungju, South Korea.
Read the article at MSN.
The 21st Century’s Mega Disruptor: Machine Learning
By John F. Wysseier, President and Chief Executive Officer, The CEI Group, Inc.
Of all the technological advances mankind has achieved over the millennia that have changed the way we live and work, Machine Learning (ML) may well prove to be the one with the most powerful and disruptive effects.
And while one application – autonomous vehicles – is still in its infancy, ML applications in many other business applications are already here and more are on the way.
ML grew out of the computer science of artificial intelligence (AI). Broadly speaking, AI refers to computers programmed to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, like recognizing images and speech and making decisions. As remarkable as that is, ML goes one step further: it creates computers that can learn from experience and actually improve their performance.
5 Reasons Fleets Won’t Be Buying Autonomous Vehicles Any Time Soon
By Andrew Boada, Editor at Large
Sometimes, we get overcome with excitement when it appears that the high-tech future we have been dreaming of has finally arrived.
It looks like 2019 is going to be one of those times, for that is when, after years of breathless anticipation, one OEM – in this case, GM – says its fully autonomous, self-driving car, will finally, actually and, by many accounts, well ahead of schedule, will be here.
But I have one balloon-popping, rain-on- the- parade question to pose: Will you – Mr. or Ms. fleet manager – be ponying up to buy an autonomous vehicle (AV) next year? I think not. In fact, I think no fleet manager will be seriously considering making a self-driving vehicle their go-to acquisition for many years to come.
A Call to Action: Survey Reveals the Four Steps to Marketing Team Success
By Ed Pierce, Fleet Industry Marketer
In a recent INC. magazine article by Garrett Moonco, founder and CEO of CoSchedule, he referenced research his team conducted among 1,500 or so marketing professionals about what makes them successful.
His conclusion was that there are four consistent traits that characterize successful marketers:
1. Marketing strategy documentation
The study found that marketers who document their marketing strategy are 538 percent more likely to report success than those who don't. Given that the marketing strategy is the guide for decision-making, prioritization, and the proper mix of ingredients, top marketers have a clear sense of where they are going and how they need to get there. They have a better chance for success.
