In sustainable mobility, technological innovations are playing a crucial role in transforming how we move and how corporate fleets operate.
In this sense, Latam Mobility serves as the space that brings together experts and professionals in the sector with the aim of presenting the transportation landscape in the region.
On August 29 and 30, the agenda moved to Latam Mobility Chile: Conosur 2023, held at the InterContinental Hotel in Santiago de Chile, where Pedro Giraldo, Geotab’s Business Development Manager for Latin America, offered an outstanding presentation.
The briefing revealed how Geotab is leading the charge towards electrification and sustainability in the region.
Giraldo shared Geotab’s vision and how the company is committed to cutting-edge technology and sustainability from a corporate perspective. As the first telematics company to have science-based decarbonization goals, they have an ambitious plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
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Now, as part of its business objective, Geotab is supporting companies along the different phases of their journey towards emissions reduction, from initial aspiration to electric vehicle adoption and optimization.
Giraldo shared valuable insights on how companies can assess, adopt and accelerate the transition to decarbonized fleets. In addition, he highlighted the importance of identifying improvement opportunities in routes and operations, and how telematics data plays a critical role in this process.
Geotab Boosts Fleet Management
The central part of the presentation focused on how to leverage telematics data to efficiently size electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Giraldo highlighted the complexity and challenges inherent in planning charging infrastructure.
“A wrong choice could have a negative impact on both fleet operation and financial investment,” the executive assures.
This is where the power of Geotab’s telematics comes into play, as fleet data from internal combustion vehicle fleets can be used to model the behavior of a hypothetical electric fleet.
This allows companies to make informed decisions about where and how to deploy electric charging infrastructure.
“With the ability to simulate fleet activity as if it were electric, companies can estimate the number and type of chargers needed, as well as forecast the impact on the electric grid at different locations,” he continued.
A case study with a utility company in the UK exemplified the effectiveness of this approach. Actual fleet data was used to determine which vehicles were suitable for electrification and how an optimal charging infrastructure could be designed.
“This telematics-driven methodology allowed the company to make fact-based decisions and obtain more accurate and scalable results,” Giraldo said.
Thus, the importance of partnerships between technology and sustainability in the mobility sector was exposed.
There, Geotab’s telematics provides a window to operational efficiency while building a cleaner and more sustainable future, as the company is at the forefront of this revolution, effectively interpreting data to make smarter and greener decisions in companies’ journey towards fleet electrification.
