Mobility Solutions for Fleets
Owning and running a successful auto parts delivery business for nine years, Jeb Lopez knows logistics. He’s now bringing his commercial fleet experience to Usain Bolt’s scooter startup — and reinventing the rules for managing last-mile mobility fleets.
With electricity rate fluctuations of up to 200% daily, its essential for fleets to view their local utilities as partners and engage them before placing an order for the first electric vehicles.
Fetch is an on-demand peer-to-peer rental service for pickups, box trucks, and cargo vans. Cofounder Adam Steinberg says the commercial side is its fastest growing segment.
Eric Foellmer says XL's plan is to continue supplementing the electrification strategy of the OEMs, which includes its present hybrid and plug-in hybrid systems and eventually an all-electric system.
Included in this groundbreaking total cost of ownership study for fleets are battery-electric models including BMW i3, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf, and Tesla 3, as well as plug-in hybrid electric models such as Chevrolet Volt and Hyundai Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid.
At the TechCrunch Mobility Sessions, autonomous vehicle players outlined the near future of AV deployments, while Merchant Fleet’s Brendan Keegan invited tech startups to learn more about fleet.
Electric scooter may not directly emit emissions but do contribute greenhouse gases factoring in charging. However, they contribute 59% less CO2 per mile than the average car.
With multiple manufacturers running varying embedded technologies, industry experts see the need for newer, third-party solutions to tie in the data and drive value to fleets.
Bobby Healy, CEO of a drone delivery service that plans to deliver food directly from restaurants to homes in Europe and the U.S., discusses what the rollout of commercial drones delivering 2 kilos of hot food will look like.
The new buses are part of the California Energy Commission's $94 million school bus replacement program to help pupil transportation providers replace more than 200 diesel school buses throughout the state.
