“How Electrification, Smart Mobility and Artificial Intelligence add value to your Fleet Programme”

Not only corporates are responding to the changing mobility behaviour of their people in line with overall objectives; cities are doing the same and some in such a way that they earn the moniker Smart City. Lisbon is one of them: the Portuguese capital has clear objectives to increase mobility efficiency and air quality while reducing pollution and traffic jams, hence optimising quality of life and city productivity – not unlike the ambitions of a company.

Experts have been predicting for years that shared mobility will push the current one-driver-one-car model aside. Until today the switch hasn’t been made but looking at the results of the 2019 Global Fleet Survey, fleet managers indeed are open to implementing carsharing. This solution is also becoming more important on the supplier side, as two major automotive rivals have merged their mobility offering under the Now umbrella, with Share Now as one of the five mobility pillars.

Until recently, diesel was the preferred fuel for most European fleets. Emission test cheating, WLTP as well as other regulatory and social pressure have not been without consequence. A further move away from diesel is not unlikely knowing that employees are increasingly asking for electric vehicles and that car manufacturers are speeding up the launch of several new EVs, supported by charging services and solutions to capitalise on the electric revolution.

Artificial Intelligence or AI is more than a game. It’s the ability for a computer to learn and think, hence to make predictions. Leveraging AI is key when the amount of data is big and the need for analysis important, which is the case with CASE: the Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electric mobility future. Through AI processes will get smarter, fleets more cost-effective and mobility cheaper and safer.