Question 1

What should a supervisor check first in EV fleet daily operations?

Accepted Answer

The overnight charge completion report. It tells you which vehicles are available, which charge points failed, and which drivers did not plug in — three problems that look identical on a dashboard and need three different responses. Reading it at 05:15 gives you an hour to fix things; reading it at 07:00 means dispatching around them.

Question 2

How many charge points does a 60-vehicle last-mile fleet need?

Accepted Answer

Work it as point-hours, not a ratio. Multiply charge points by the hours between last return and first dispatch, then compare that with the energy your fleet needs overnight. A 60-vehicle e-3W depot with 24 points and a seven-hour window has 168 point-hours — enough for three waves, provided plug order follows tomorrow’s route lengths rather than arrival time.

Question 3

Should EV taxi drivers use public fast chargers during a shift?

Accepted Answer

Sparingly, and only under a published rule. Premium public DC charging in Indian metros commonly runs at around twice a depot rate, so unmanaged use quietly erases a real share of a shift’s earnings. Approve specific networks, show drivers the price difference, and treat repeated overflow as a sign that depot capacity, not driver behaviour, is the constraint.

Question 4

How do Time of Day tariffs change daily EV fleet operations?

Accepted Answer

They turn charging from a task into a scheduling decision. India’s rules set commercial peak tariffs at a minimum of 1.2 times normal and solar-hour tariffs at least 20% below it, so the same kilowatt-hour can vary by roughly 40% depending on when it is drawn. Fleets that charge opportunistically in the solar window and pause non-urgent charging at peak capture that spread daily.

Question 5

What is the single best daily KPI for an electric fleet?

Accepted Answer

The one matching your segment’s constraint: cost per drop for last-mile, revenue-hours per charge cycle for taxi fleets, on-time arrival rate for corporate transport. All three beat cost per kilometre, because they connect energy spend to the outcome the fleet is actually paid for.

Question 6

Can one platform run last-mile, taxi and corporate fleets together?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and mixed operators generally should — the underlying decisions are identical even where the vocabulary differs. What changes per segment is the thresholds, the headline KPI, and who receives which alert. Separate tools mainly guarantee that energy costs are never comparable across the fleet.

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