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Uber is preparing for its robotaxi rollout with a 50,000-square-foot Houston depot, including EV charging and maintenance infrastructure. This is a great signal for the wider fleet market, because even companies built on asset-light models are recognising that electric fleet operations depend on the basics: depot capacity, charging access, maintenance workflows, energy availability, uptime, and vehicle readiness. The vehicle technology matters, but the operating environment around the vehicle matters just as much. For any fleet moving toward electrification, the question is not only “which vehicles should we buy?” It is also: How will they charge? Where will they charge? What happens when grid capacity is constrained? How do we keep utilisation high? How do we plan infrastructure before it becomes a bottleneck? The next phase of EV adoption will be shaped by the organisations that treat charging, depots, data, and operations as one connected system. Contact us today to discover the answers to all the important questions you need answered for your transition.

Schedules are useful, but day-to-day fleet operations are full of exceptions: late returns, charger issues, energy constraints, and vehicle swaps. That’s where dispatch becomes more than knowing the schedule. It’s about making the right next decision, quickly.

BetterFleet has been named as a supplier on Government Commercial Agency’s RM6347 Transport Technology framework on Lot 6 - Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. Any UK government department can now procure BetterFleet quickly and at best value accelerating timelines and reducing cost for the public sector. What this means for public sector fleets: - AI-enabled charge management & planning - Real-time performance, predictive maintenance, incident automation - Digital twins to avoid costly overbuild - Hardware-agnostic integration with 50+ charger brands - Used by 200+ fleets worldwide Proud to support the UK’s journey toward a resilient, low-carbon transport future! 

Electrifying a bus fleet is just the beginning. The real challenge is keeping it running day after day, with reliable charging, available vehicles, controlled energy costs, and minimal operational disruption. As electric bus fleets grow, operators are balancing far more than charging infrastructure. They're managing depot complexity, responding to incidents, maintaining charger uptime, and ensuring every vehicle is ready when it needs to leave the depot. Join BetterFleet and Kempower for an educational webinar exploring what it really takes to operate electric bus fleets with confidence. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝘂𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 Together, we'll discuss:  • Charging strategy and depot planning best practices  • Improving fleet utilisation, charger performance, and operational uptime  • Managing energy demand, depot complexity, and day-to-day operational risk  • Handling charger downtime, diagnostics, and incident response in live operations  • How managed services and software support reliable, lower-friction fleet operations Whether you're planning your next depot or looking to optimize an existing operation, you'll leave with practical insights from experts working with electric bus fleets every day. Register today and join the conversation on what it takes to keep electric bus operations moving with the link in the comments.

The US public EV charging network has passed a major milestone of more than 250,000 public charging ports nationwide. It is important progress, but for fleets don't just need to know how many chargers exist. Fleets need to know whether the right chargers are in the right places, with the right power levels, reliability, access, and dwell-time fit for real operations. A charging port that works well for a passenger car stop may not solve the needs of a depot-based fleet, a regional delivery route, a transit operator, or a heavy-duty vehicle schedule. As charging networks grow, utilisation and planning will matter more than headline numbers. Fleet electrification needs infrastructure that aligns with routes, driver shifts, grid capacity, vehicle duty cycles, and operational risk. This milestone is definitely worth celebrating, but the next challenge is making sure charging infrastructure is usable, reliable, and planned around how fleets actually move.

British Columbia’s refreshed Go Electric Rebates program for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles is set to open on August 10, 2026. The program will provide point-of-sale rebates for eligible Class 2b–8 ZEVs purchased by B.C. businesses, non-profits, Indigenous organizations, and local governments. For fleets, incentives are only one part of the transition. The best outcomes come when vehicle procurement, charging infrastructure, site capacity, operations, and funding strategy are planned together from the start. Contact us today to understand the best way to utilize this funding.

This is such an important point. Fleet electrification is not just about buying chargers and vehicles. For fleets that rely on uptime every day, charging needs to be designed around the operating model from the beginning. That means thinking about how the whole system will work in practice: energy management, charger availability, site operations, data, cybersecurity, maintenance, dispatch, and long-term scalability. The real opportunity is not to recreate diesel operations with different assets. It is to use better data and connected systems to run more reliable, efficient and resilient fleet operations. Great piece from our CEO, Daniel Hilson, on why the next phase of fleet electrification needs to start with operations, not just hardware.

Electric fleets don’t need to run like diesel fleets. In a new FreightWaves article, BetterFleet CEO Dan Hilson explains why the next phase of fleet electrification is not just about adding more chargers, it is about using smarter charging to reduce costs, protect uptime, and get more from every vehicle. For fleets operating at scale, the real savings come from managing the full picture: energy pricing, demand charges, charger availability, route needs, battery health, and vehicle priority. BetterFleet helps fleets move beyond “top-up anxiety” and into optimized charging that keeps operations moving.

Secure your spot today for this informative webinar co-hosted with Kempower! Learn the practical approaches to long-term success including how effectively operators manage charging infrastructure, vehicle availability, energy costs, route delivery, charger uptime, and day-to-day incident handling.

Dispatch is becoming one of the harder operational questions in fleet electrification. With diesel fleets, the decision is often relatively straightforward: what vehicle is available, where is it, and what job needs to be covered? With electric fleets, there are more moving parts. Battery state, charger availability, return times, duty energy requirements, depot constraints, maintenance windows and operational priorities all start affecting what the “right” dispatch decision looks like. That is why EV fleet software needs to move beyond basic schedule visibility. The next step is helping operators make better real-time decisions about which vehicle should be assigned, when it should charge, and how to keep operations moving without creating downstream issues.