The Utility Expo in Louisville, Kentucky is finally upon us!

Join Gretchen and Michael at the conference by following along with their 'daily recaps' of each day during the three-day expo.

Day one saw a mass of new technology, visiting some familiar Fleet FYIs guests in their respective booths and sending Michael up in a ReachMaster Aerial Lift - the highest one in the country.

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Low emission zones are designated areas, commonly the greater area surrounding a dense city center, where polluting vehicles (more often than not, internal combustion engines) are restricted or entirely prohibited. These areas allow access only to vehicles that meet set emission standards, such as electric, hybrid or alternative fuel vehicles.  

Vehicles that don’t meet these requirements will be fined or penalized for entering the low emission zone, unless previously exempt by paying a daily fee. Alternatively, some cities offer the option of retrofitting higher emission vehicles with diesel particulate filters to meet the standards set.

But what’s the point?

The purpose of these restrictions being to protect air quality in big cities, and to begin to move toward those net-zero emissions goals that many countries have set for the next few decades.

Ready to learn more? Let's dig in.

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The internal combustion engine and use of fossil fuels undoubtedly transformed the way that humans lived. It’s primarily because of inexpensive, accessible electricity and fuel-run transportation that our society has been able to achieve the level of innovation that it has today.  

Still, as I’m sure you all know by now, there is a growing concern about climate change that is forcing us to rethink our energy consumption and generation methods going forward. 

Together with the transition to electric vehicles, comes the need for clean, renewable energy sources. It is projected that renewable energy will be the largest electricity source by 2050, as the world moves to completely phase out fossil fuels. With more fleets looking to take on EVs, it is essential to also consider how these EVs are being powered and whether it is a clean, sustainable practice.

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It’s been a bit of a blustery one in Minnesota today – torrential rainstorms and even a severe thunderstorm warning earlier in the day.

It’s actually rather fitting I think – especially for today’s episode. My guest today is coming to us all the way from the UK, David Savage. And we all know that the UK is certainly famous for its rain, amongst many other things of course.

Now, David is the VP of the UK and Ireland for GEOTAB – you know how fond we are of those folks over here at Utilimarc – and I wanted to speak to him specifically about potential trans-atlantic trends that we’ve seen already take root in places like Europe and the UK, that have yet to or are currently in the process of making their way stateside.

We’ll be speaking about electrification, sustainability (as per usual) and the entire movement at it’s core – because I know that sustainability isn’t just for those interested in electrification. There’s a little piece that everyone can take from this.

Stay tuned to the end, and you’ll even get to hear about one of my favourite aspects of this show – hearing all about how the diesel-powered London black cabs have started to move towards electrification.

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We all know that fuel is key to modern society – we fuel our vehicles, we fuel our bodies, we fuel our minds. But the key to fuel is allowing it to modernize with society as it evolves – especially if you’re a company in which fuel (or fueling equipment) is one of your primary offerings.

But the question is, how do you transition from a world so reliant on petrol and diesel fuels to a world headed towards decarbonization and electrification?

In this episode of Fleet FYIs, I’ve got Allen Goetz with me from Gilbarco – and he’s going to share exactly how Gilbarco, and the industry itself, is faring and weathering this change.

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When you think about it – it’s not just time that’s been moving quickly these days – but technology and driving innovation too. If we were to look at electric vehicles again – yes again, we all know that I love exploring all facets of the term “sustainability” on this show, the timeframe for electric vehicle technology, infrastructure and innovation has shortened dramatically. It went from a span of 5-10 years being the average to see any major change in innovation, to 1-2 years being the standard.

Crazy to think, right?

To help me speak more to this topic, I’ve brought in Charlotte Argue, another friend of mine from GEOTAB, where she works as a senior electrification manager and knows pretty much all there is to know on all things EV.

She’s speaking to why planning for an electric vehicle based future isn’t simply key – it’s smart policy.

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Sustainability isn’t just about who can electrify first. It’s not about who can decarbonize their electric grid the fastest. Heck, it’s not even about alternative fuels. What it is about, is prolonging the longevity of your organization from the ground up - and for some that may be through electrification, green energy, alternative fuels and resource conservation. For others it may be by simply making their ICE vehicles more sustainable. Simple as that. 

A lot of the progress that has been made in this sustainability movement has really started to rev up in Europe. The Netherlands, Norway - specifically in cities like Oslo, Amsterdam, London in the UK  and even eastern Asia. These are the places where sustainability initiatives are currently being piloted, and once demonstrated to be successful - have other cities and countries closely following suit.

Tune in for more.

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We speak a lot, and I mean a lot, about data on this podcast. As we should - working with data is Utilimarc’s bread and butter, the core of what we do here. We’ve been working with one of our partners, GEOTAB, to be able to “unlock” so speak, a certain type of data that historically has been harder to access.

I mean, you can access it, but it may not give you everything you need until you jump through a few hoops. If you’re familiar with OEM telematics – or original equipment manufacturer telematics – you’ll know what I mean.

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Getting data where it needs to be continues to prove to be a challenge for many organizations today – especially when it comes to streamlining and effectively optimizing operational strategies.

Today, Gretchen is "virtually" sitting down with Sean Killen, the Vice President for Global Business Development and Vice President of Latin America for GEOTAB to delve further into the topics of big data, enterprise resource planning software, and of course, GEOTAB telematics.

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Today, Utilimarc senior analyst, Paul Milner, and I sit down to talk success metrics for fleet management. We all know about cost per mile - right? At least, it seems pretty self-explanatory.

But as fleets become more sophisticated with the addition of new technology, the need for metrics to evolve also remains consistent. We're starting with the basics: cost per mile and cost per gallon. What to use them for, when to use them, so on and so forth. We're also going to touch on a new metric that we’ve been using a lot lately – and one that our customers have been finding a lot of value in, cost per usage day.

It’s a bit of an evolved metric, branching off of simply using cost per mile or cost per gallon only – as fleets are always evolving and technology is always changing…especially if your fleet operates in multiple regions.

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