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Why EV Fleet Sales Are So Important
Electric car sales have been steadily increasing each and every year and it seems that 2022 may actually be one of the most important years for EV adoption as well. With Tesla, Ford and several other companies pushing out thousands of EVs to consumers, it only makes sense that more and more people are buying them. Paired with the improvements to the charging infrastructure and of course the need for heightened climate action we’re all heading towards an era of fossil fuel free transportation! That being said, I wanted to talk about why vehicle fleets are going to be far more important to the adoption of electric vehicles versus consumer purchases, so let’s see why!
Reliability
Reliability has to be one of the most important aspects to any type of vehicle, whether we’re talking gas or electric, sport or commuter. No one, and a I truly mean no one, wants a car that either requires a lot of consistent maintenance or a car that just breaks down out of no where. Enter, EV fleets. By getting electric vehicles into the hands of big distributors such as Wal-Mart, Fedex, USPS and so on, both the car manufacturers and the consumers will be able to offload a lot of the reliability testing that will be needed to ensure an easy adoption of EVs well into the future. Thinking about how often fleet vehicles could be used it’s easy to see that vehicle fleets are the perfect testing ground not only for high mileage use cases but also real world applications as well. If we start to see issues with fleet vehicles within a year of adoption not only will the manufacturers have to make a lot of development improvements but they’ll also have to force local technicians to acquire the knowledge needed to diagnose, troubleshoot and fix common issues. All this combines into a world where by supplying EVs to large organizations first and foremost, consumers will still likely be in a unannounced beta program, but it will be far superior to the alpha testing that will be placed on the larger organizations.
Scalability
I don’t own 10,000 vehicles, as a matter of fact, I don’t want to own 10,000 vehicles. But you know who probably does? Wal-Mart. That’s right, by larger organizations purchasing larger batches of EVs we’ll start to see the scalability of electric vehicles rapidly develop. At this point in…
