Posts by: Eric Schmidt
December 12, 2018
FleetCarma Gets Room to Grow with New Home at Catalyst137
FleetCarma, a Geotab Company, today announced it will be settling into a new home in Kitchener-Waterloo’s IoT hub, Catalyst137. Moving from its current office location in Northeast Waterloo in early 2019, FleetCarma will be growing its presence in the KW area as the electric vehicle technology company faces rapid expansion. The move brings leading electric vehicle technology to the heart of Kitchener-Waterloo tech community.[…]
November 6, 2018
Electric vehicles sales update Q3 2018, Canada
Fast five EV sales facts: Nearly 35,000 plug-in electric vehicles have been sold in Canada by the end of September, an increase of 158% compared to this time last year. For Q3-2018, sales peaked at over 13,000 EVs, a 166% increase over Q3-2017. At current rates, Canada will see more electric vehicles (EVs) sold across the country in 2018 than the previous three years,[…]
October 3, 2018
Xcel Energy helping cities and organizations drive toward an electric vehicle future
Xcel Energy is working with a range of Minnesota cities and organizations to help them prepare for an electric vehicle future. As more electric vehicle models come onto the market, they’re becoming increasingly appealing to fleet owners as a way to lower costs and their carbon footprint. HealthPartners and the cities of Bloomington, Faribault, Fridley, Hastings, Inver Grove Heights, St. Louis Park, White Bear[…]
September 12, 2018
SmartCharge Nashville to Help Prepare City for Growing Power Demand From Electric Vehicle Drivers
FleetCarma and The Tennessee Valley Authority, with Nashville Electric Service and Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation has launched SmartCharge Nashville. This project will be a voluntary study in and around the Nashville area to understand how the city can prepare for a growing number of electric vehicles. Would-be electric vehicle (EV) owners often question vehicle driving range – how far an EV can drive before[…]
August 20, 2018
Nebraska’s Lincoln Electric System Charges Ahead with an Electric Vehicle Study to Understand Charging Demand on the Grid
Lincoln Electric System (LES), the public power utility in Nebraska’s capital city, has begun an Electric Vehicle (EV) study to better understand the impact that EV charging will have on its system’s demand. Utilities are responsible for ensuring that the power system is ready for more EV drivers, and LES’ study will help answer these questions by measuring the current needs of its community’s EV[…]
August 20, 2018
How utilities can encourage electric vehicle adoption in their territory
Falling demand for electricity threatens utilities Since steam ceded its position as the main provider of mechanical power to electricity in the early 1900s, there has been one stable relationship; as a country’s output and economy has grown, so too has its consumption of electricity. Thanks to the electrification of factories, by the 1920s, American manufacturing productivity soared to far greater heights than ever[…]
August 10, 2018
Electric vehicles sales update Q2 2018, Canada
EV sales in Canada were exceedingly strong in Q2. A number of factors have formed the ‘perfect storm’ for electric vehicle (EV) sales across Canada. The storm fronts in no particular order are; increased car buyer comfort and interest in the technology, new EV models are purpose-built to fill every nook and cranny of market segments to produce what is, the perfect vehicle for many consumers. A little car called the Tesla Model 3 was released into the Canadian market. Also, the concern about potentially losing the Ontario EV incentive had the effect of a shot-clock which had many in the Province rush to get an order in for an EV before the election took place. Indeed, shortly after the election, the EV incentive was indeed removed.
June 27, 2018
The importance of effective electric vehicle charging management
Electric vehicles are better technology than current ICE vehicles and have the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of pollution from fossil fuels. Despite the fact that electric vehicles may not emit carbon dioxide and other noxious gases when in use, they do present another problem. Demand on the electrical grid. The average electric car uses roughly ten kWh (kilowatt hours) for every fifty to[…]
June 8, 2018
Electric vehicles sales update Q1 2018, Canada
We’re off to a great start as we jump into a new year of electric vehicle (EV) sales in Canada. That’s no small statement considering all previous quarters in 2017 were record-breaking. By year-end, electric vehicle sales had climbed to 19,000 new electric vehicles for the year. Moreover, 10,000 of those EVs we’re fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEV). The rest, 9,000 plug-in hybrid electric[…]
April 27, 2018
FleetCarma has been named as a 2018 Grid Edge Innovation Award winner by Greentech Media.
FleetCarma was selected from hundreds of nominations and will be presented the award at Grid Edge Innovation Summit in June in San Francisco, California. Canada is the home of our next EV-related award-winning project. Dubbed Charge the North, the project includes 10 Canadian utilities and FleetCarma, a provider of fleet monitoring and logistics hardware and software. FleetCarma’s devices have been collecting detailed EV charging[…]
