Automotive Business Magazine – Q2 2026 – Digital edition - Magazine - Page 8
FEAT U R E
TECHNOLOGY
technicians trained to work on them.
Adrian Nash, chief product officer
at Keyloop, explains how technology
must support the transition to EV
fleets: “Total cost of ownership for EVs
needs simplifying to be compatible
with calculation methodologies we
are already fluent in, taking account
of the new variables, such as charging
infrastructure, duty cycles, energy
pricing, vehicle availability, residual
forecasting, and battery health.
“Technology becomes essential for
modelling and making data-led decisions
that make sense for consumers and are
easy to explain for OEMs and retailers.
“Fleets need richer data from OEMs
and telematics providers, combined with
platforms that can optimise routing,
utilisation and remarketing outcomes.
"Integrated tools like Fusion help fleets
manage both ICE and EV in parallel,
ensuring fleets can transition without
operational or commercial blind spots.”
2026, or 1984?
Telematics systems have provided fleets
with new ways to extract efficiency.
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Fleet managers can now
monitor driver behaviour,
fuel consumption and
vehicle health across the
fleet, all from a single
connected dashboard.
The latest systems do
not just monitor; they
provide drivers with realtime coaching. Fleets have
seen the implementation
of these systems as
a no-brainer, but not
everyone agrees. Asda
halted plans to implement
driver-facing cameras in
its delivery vans last year,
following a dispute with
the union GMB, which argued that the
technology “amounted to a severe breach
of privacy.”
Hollick says: “There’s always an
element of driver backlash with
technology that’s put into the vehicle to
try and make the driver safer.
“The more progressive businesses
push it out in a really nice way where it’s
more ‘this will help you get home safely
Technology
is going to
be absolutely
critical. It's just
about which
technologies
win, and how
you apply them”
