Fleetio Announces Integration with Optimum Fleet Health
Fleetio, a leading fleet maintenance software provider, today announced a new integration with predictive maintenance analytics company Optimum Fleet Health.
Mutual Fleetio and Optimum Fleet Health customers will be able to leverage Optimum Fleet Health’s artificial intelligence (AI) learning model to predict system failures or quality issues three to four weeks before they happen, reducing unforeseen downtime and costly disruptions to fleet operations.
“We are excited about our new partnership with Fleetio and look forward to providing a complete solution to each client,” says Klay Kachur, Chief Development Officer at Optimum Fleet Health
Fleet Logistics and MOBIKO Announce Strategic Mobility Partnership
Fleet Logistics has announced a strategic partnership with mobility solutions provider, MOBIKO, initially in Germany but with plans for a pan-European roll out in the coming months.
As a neutral systems integrator, Fleet Logistics has a number of strategic partnerships in key areas across its business. But this latest development is seen as key as Fleet Logistics, Europe’s largest fleet management provider with over 180,000 cars under contract, looks to transition from pure fleet management provider to offering new managed mobility solutions under the Managed Mobility-as-a-Service (MMaaS) banner.
Hertz is Back From the Near-Dead and Buying 100,000 Teslas
Hertz spent a large part of last year in bankruptcy, selling off thousands and thousands of cars. It has spent this year rebounding, and, now, buying thousands and thousands of cars. Many thousands of those will be Teslas, according to Bloomberg.
It’s the single-largest purchase ever for electric vehicles and represents about $4.2 billion of revenue for Tesla. While car-rental companies typically demand big discounts from automakers, the size of the order implies that Hertz is paying close to list prices.
The cars will be delivered over the next 14 months, and Tesla’s Model 3 sedans will be available to rent at Hertz locations in major U.S. markets and parts of Europe starting in early November. Customers will have access to Tesla’s network of superchargers, and Hertz is also building its own charging infrastructure.
Read the article at Jalopnik.
Ford’s Fleet Customers Send Mixed Signals on Electric Vehicles – Exec
Ford Motor Co sees a robust market for electric trucks and vans by 2030, but it is facing some early pushback from commercial customers that are a key audience for the automaker's new F-150 Lightning and E-Transit, a top executive said on Thursday.
The Lightning pickup and E-Transit van "are targeted at real people doing real work," said Ted Cannis, chief executive of Ford Pro, at the Reuters Events Automotive Summit.
But some of those potential fleet buyers are taking a "wait and see" attitude, partly from a lack of experience with electric vehicles and partly from a lack of clarity on government policy and regulations around EVs.
Read the article at Reuters
Lessons Learned with No Time to Waste
Our FMW editorial team was unable to attend the recent AFLA Conference in San Antonio, so we are especially delighted to publish articles about the conference from its enthusiastic attendees. This week, we feature an extensive report from Donlen, who played a large role at the conference.
SuperVision reminds us that failing to continuously monitor a driver’s MVR is risky. In fact, in the case Adam Danielson cites in their article, that failure by one company cost the firm over $3 million, but, tragically, the woman who was hit by the unlicensed driver sustained life-altering injuries.
Carol Fowler, director of business development at FLD Remarketing, brings us up to date on the remarketer's latest Webaccess tools and how they make the remarketing process even quicker and easier.
We have our eyes on COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference beginning Sunday in Glasgow. We look to the US Senate for action. There is no time to waste.
Janice Sutton
Editor in Chief
