Steps to Take When Looking at Budget Cuts
Is your fleet looking at budget cuts? If so, here are few places to look when you need to cut costs.
Shell Telematics Aims to Boost Efficiency, Safety & Sustainability
Shell Telematics brings in fuel and maintenance data, along with telematics data - giving fleets a full bundle of tools to help them save money, and to be more efficient and more sustainable.
Chip Shortage Hitting Auto, Fleet Industries
By Bill Bishop, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, FLD Remarketing
Auto assembly lines shuttering from Kansas City to Beijing.
Luxury car models like Mercedes Benz hoarding parts for their most expensive models, while simultaneously halting production on cheaper offerings.
And some manufacturers – like France’s Peugeot – looking for ways to drop modern touches like digital speedometers in favor of previously obsolete analog models – something previously unthinkable.
At a time when global demand for new vehicles may be at an all-time high, what in the world is causing such strange behavior from the world’s most powerful vehicle manufacturers?
In a word – and a short one at that – chips.
Ford F-150 Lightning Name Will Return for Electric Pickup
Ford's upcoming electric pickup truck will be called the F-150 Lightning. The electric version of its best selling pickup will revive a legendary nameplate from V-8–powered street trucks.
They expect the F-150 Lightning's battery pack to provide more than 300 miles of range since the longest-range Mustang Mach-E is EPA-rated at 305 miles of driving range. Ford also patented a removal range extender that could go in the truck's bed.
Ford hasn't released many details on the F-150 Lightning's powertrain, but it will have a dual-motor setup providing all-wheel drive. Ford says the electric F-150 will provide more horsepower and torque and the fastest acceleration of any F-150 currently on the market. The electric Ford F-150 Lightning will go on sale in the middle of next year.
Read the article at Car and Driver.
The Triple Threat
Speeding. Distraction. Fatigue. Ed Dubens asks: Can Fleets Vaccinate Against the ‘Triple Threat’ to Drivers? The situation is dire: the NSC estimates that in 2020 -- the year dominated by Covid -- there was a 24 percent increase in highway deaths over 2019!
Joe Poznick recently joined Agile Fleet and we are delighted to publish our first interview with him on a subject near to our hearts: Client Success.
Did you know that FMW has a department devoted to topics involving fleet utilization, vehicle sharing, and motor pools? You can learn more about how these actions can work for your organization, dig into the details concerning right-sizing, fleet policy, selling new concepts to your upper management, getting buy-in from your stakeholders, and more. Click here to learn more.
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