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How Telematics Drives Efficiencies: Diverse Fleets Weigh In

Green Fleet Magazine

Three sales and service fleets share how telematics helps them attack costs around maintenance, downtime, and vehicle idle time, as well as create a data-informed plan to begin electrification.

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Hertz continues to feel EV losses, plans to dump more from its fleet

Teslarati

Hertz ( NASDAQ: HTZ ) reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2024 today, announcing that it is continuing to lose money on its electric vehicle investment and plans to dump even more EVs from its fleet. Hertz said it incurred a $195 million charge to vehicle depreciation to write down the EVs held for sale. Tesla inks $4.2B

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Penske orders 750 Ford E-Transit cargo vans for rental and leasing fleet

Green Car Congress

These are the first light-duty electric trucks to be made available in Penske’s rental and leasing fleet, as previously announced. Product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions.

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Merchants Fleet Pivots To Help Fleet Managers Electrify Their Fleets

CleanTechnica EVs

Fleet managers live and die by total cost of ownership calculations and are struggling to wrap their heads around the risks and opportunities that come with electrifying their fleets.

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Proterra and Miami-Dade County announce major EV technology project for fleet electrification; 42 more electric buses, 75 chargers

Green Car Congress

Proterra Inc and Miami-Dade County announced a major fleet electrification project with the County acquiring 42 Proterra ZX5+ electric transit buses, featuring a total of 19 MWh of battery storage capacity, along with plans to install 75 Proterra chargers across three bus depots. The first electric buses are slated to be delivered in 2022.

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Nissan announces record EV fleet sales in Europe in FY2015

Green Car Congress

Sales of the Nissan LEAF and e-NV200 in the fleet market in Europe rose for a fourth consecutive year in fiscal year 2015, up 45% on the previous fiscal year. Nissan sold more than 7,500 LEAFs and e-NV200s to fleet operators and municipalities in Europe, commanding a 28% share of the pure electric fleet market.

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How Safe Are EVs for Fleets?

Blink Charging

Many fleet owners and operators are interested in reducing operational and maintenance costs with electric vehicles (EVs), but they worry about vehicle safety. Maintenance is one of the areas where EVs are safer than ICE vehicles because they have far fewer moving parts. Now, EVs can handle short and long-distance trips.

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