Shaping the Future of Vehicle Cybersecurity
NAFA Fleet Management Association CEO Phil Russo announced a strategic partnership with the Auto-ISAC alliance of auto industry suppliers and automakers who are deeply concerned about vehicle cybersecurity. Phil says, "As part our agreement with Auto-ISAC, NAFA will have access to information, reports, webinars, workshops, and other educational tools we can share with you."
Phil notes, “With today’s high-tech vehicles running on multiple computers and connected together through a maze of networks, it is possible to break into the vehicle’s command center. Hackers just have to find a hole somewhere to sneak in.”
We can all envision the dire ramifications of fleets being hacked. We applaud NAFA for joining this alliance that will shape the future of vehicle cybersecurity.
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
NYC Installs 500 Electric Vehicle Chargers and Completes Construction of Solar-Powered Carports
Chargers are Powering City Government’s Fleet of 1,300 Electric Vehicles Across the Five Boroughs
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) today announced the installation of the City’s 500th electric vehicle charger and the completion of the first phase of solar-powered electric vehicle carports. The City’s 500 electric vehicle chargers are accessible at facilities operated by several City government agencies.
The solar-powered carports are installed at 37 locations and can fully charge electric vehicles without use of the City’s electric grid. The chargers and carports help power the City’s 1,300 electric vehicles. The use of the new solar carports will save the City 13,000 gallons of gasoline and yield up to 500,000 vehicle miles annually.
20 Car Crash Tips and Things You Should Know After an Accident
Consider yourself lucky — or perhaps overdue — if you’re an adult who has never been in a car accident.
Consider that in 2015 alone, more than 2.4 million people were injured and nearly 35,000 people died in 6.2 million crashes nationwide, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
It follows that the Insurance Information Institute says the number and severity of automobile accidents has been on an uptick in recent years, and the consumer website carinsurance.com reports that adult drivers in the U.S. will file a car collision claim approximately once every 18 years.
Read the article at Property Casualty 360.
Three Commonly Overlooked Money-Saving Applications of Fleet Analytics
By Kathy Massey, VP of Client Services, AmeriFleet
With the advent of technology that can capture and analyze a huge quantity and wide variety of data, fleet management has increasingly become an analytics-intensive endeavor.
This has enabled fleet owners and operators to achieve unprecedented efficiencies across a number of key performance categories. Typically, these have included optimizing residual value, fuel and maintenance expense, logistics, driver and fleet safety, all of which has positive effects on the bottom line.
But in AmeriFleet’s experience with fleets of all types -- from light-duty to vocational and heavy-duty vehicles – we’ve found three areas of opportunity that are consistently under-recognized in terms of data capture, actionable information, benchmarking and decision tools: logistics spend, inventory management, and compliance.
Key metrics, such as average miles/move, days in storage, unassigned inventory versus out of stock purchase and rental expense, return-to-service ratios, non-compliance expense, and in general, overall supply chain optimization all lend themselves to significant improvement when the same approach to “Big Data” is taken as other dimensions of fleet operations. Several examples will illustrate the potential benefits.
fleetcompetence Group Expands Its Global Network
Pictured: Tobias Kern, Thilo von Ulmenstein, Lukas Jania, Balz Eggenberger
During the 5th International Fleet Meeting, held by fleetcompetence Group and aboutfleet in Geneva on March 7, 2018, the international consulting firm fleetcompetence Group announced that it has expanded its geographical footprint by attracting additional partners in North America, Asia, the Pacific region and Africa.
This step is in line with the continued strong demand for support in international fleet projects. READ MORE
