EV range anxiety is a major concern for electrifying fleets. Fleet managers need their EVs to have enough range to arrive on time, charging takes much longer than filling up on gas, and public chargers are notoriously unreliable. Running out of range can mean a vehicle is stranded and needs a tow.
Fleet managers know that manufacturer-reported range can differ widely from what actually happens in the field. Variables like cargo load, regenerative braking, geographical terrain, and driver technique shape every route. Temperature is one of the biggest: Consumer Reports found that driving in the cold and running the heater shortens an EV's range between 25 and 50 percent.
The Flipturn range report: personalized range data for every vehicle in your fleet
From working closely with customers, a few questions came up repeatedly:
- How much battery state of charge do I need to complete this route?
- Based on the estimated range, which vehicles should I send on which routes?
To answer these, fleet managers need per-route and per-vehicle range estimates based on real historical data. Flipturn's fleet charging management provides exactly that.
Customers have used the range report to make significant discoveries about their vehicles. For example, a truck running a mostly uphill route from a port to a warehouse inland had an equivalent range of 136 miles. When the same vehicle returned to the port on a mostly downhill route, its equivalent range was 262 miles. The cause: regenerative braking, which feeds energy back into the battery as the EV slows.
Whole-fleet overview
The report opens with a summary of every vehicle in your fleet, including historical estimated range, median estimated range, and total distance driven:
Per-vehicle summary
From there, you can select a specific vehicle and see its range for each route driven, based on route length, distance, and battery consumption:
Individual route detail
From the vehicle report, you can drill into the details of a specific route, with a timeline of stops along the route and a map overlay:
We're continuing to develop range reporting, including automatically associating a vehicle's load to a specific route. If you want to analyze the range of your fleet EVs, book a demo.
About Flipturn
Flipturn is a leading charging management solution for fleets. The platform combines energy management to minimize utility costs, charger monitoring to improve uptime and issue resolution speed, and fleet charging management for cost per mile and range insights.
