EV Suitability Assessment (EVSA)
Your customized fleet electrification blueprint reveals vehicles ready to electrify, based on reliable range estimates, accurate cost comparisons and charging options.
Simplify your EV transition
The EVSA offers a tailored roadmap to electrify your fleet, driven by real-world data. Identify the perfect EV candidates, create solid financial forecasts and effortlessly choose the right EVs from local markets. Our comprehensive solution helps fleets reduce emissions, find cost savings and ensure performance excellence, making fleet electrification a breeze.
- Eliminate range anxiety: Real-world data on vehicles, temperatures and driving patterns help to maximize zero-emission miles.
- Build the business case: Reliable financial forecasts and comparisons support your electrification business case.
- Identify best-fit EVs: EVSA auto-detects your fleet vehicles to easily find local-market best-fit EV recommendations.
- Tailor your charging strategy: EVSA considers charging locations, fleet preferences, state of charge and dwell times.
- Streamlined process: EVSA has a new and simplified interface and comes auto-installed in the MyGeotab platform.
30%
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
Natural Resources Canada
35%
increase in fuel economy
United Utilities
Electrification options for any fleet scenario
EV options for depot-first charging
Get EV recommendations based on depot-charging availability.
If you manage a delivery or service fleet and find that stopping for charging during deliveries is costly, our customized recommendations focus on prioritizing electrification at your primary dwell locations. This ensures your vehicles can efficiently charge when needed.
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Increase electrification potential
Extend range and time-away from depot when on-route charging is an option.
If you oversee an urban municipal fleet and have easy access to public charging, your fleet's on-route charging capability becomes a valuable asset. This feature is particularly beneficial when your vehicles don't always return to primary or secondary charging spots or when you need to extend their range for specific trips.
Decentralized electrification
Maximize electrification potential and reduce reliance on primary charging locations.
If your fleet operates in an area with accessible public charging and your vehicles don't return to a central hub daily, like street-level parking for your sales team, our recommendations are tailored to your specific needs. We consider multiple dwell locations and charging options, reducing your reliance on centralized charging infrastructure.
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Say goodbye to EV guesswork
Range assurance
EV recommendations that are tailored to match your existing vehicle performance based on real-world data.
- Ensure fit for fleet needs with EV recommendations that meet range and operational requirements.
- Apply factors like temperature, average speed, distance and duration to enhance EV recommendations.
- Be confident in recommendations with results based on real-world EV performance data in thousands of trips.
Charge Viability
Tailored EV recommendations based on projected vehicle use, state of charge and dwell time at proposed charge locations.
- Identify EV options based on current or future charging infrastructure.
- Evaluate charging location scenarios – depot, office or driver’s home.
- Set limits for on-route charging to easily filter and compare suitable EVs.
Total cost of ownership
Reliable financial forecasts and vehicle comparisons for a solid electrification business case.
- Explore various electrification scenarios and compare replacement vehicles based on our extensive data.
- Assess procurement, maintenance, fuel, electricity and insurance costs to uncover capital, operational and ROI impacts.
- Dive deeper into the results for specific enquiries by exporting the simulation data.
Vehicle selection
In-market recommendations save fleets time researching EV models to replace ICE vehicles.
- Simplify EV research with a curated list of locally available EV recommendations.
- Filter recommended EVs to your preference for type, model, brand, etc.
- Apply custom procurement considerations including dealership rebates, special pricing and incentives.
Environmental impact
Discover your fleet's potential to eliminate CO2 emissions based on different electrification scenarios.
- Estimate emissions reduction with up-to-date EPA and WLTP vehicle emission data.
- Simulate electrification scenarios to gauge environmental impact (CO2 emission reduction).
- Assess potential cost savings from reducing or eliminating fuel.
Case study
Enterprise Fleet Management: Uncovering the potential of fleet electrification
Working together, Enterprise Fleet Management and Geotab conducted one of the largest fleet EV Suitability Assessments (EVSA). This massive study was designed to better understand how the shift to EVs will affect Enterprise Fleet Management’s business today and in the future.
$33m
194k
Research report
Taking Charge: On the road to the EV future
Our latest research finds:
- 41% of light-duty vehicles can be economically electrified with average TCO savings of $15,900 per vehicle.
- 43% of medium-duty and 58% of heavy-duty trucks drive less than 200 miles per day — well within the capability of current EVs.
Learn which vehicles are best suited for electrification and the potential cost and emissions savings, plus essential best practices.
Fleet Electrification Knowledge Center
Navigate your transition to EVs
Commonly asked questions
What is an Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment?
An Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment (EVSA) provides an electrification recommendation based on your fleet's unique needs. Geotab’s EVSA analyses your fleet’s telematics data to create an EV adoption recommendation based on each vehicle’s distinctive driving patterns, taking into consideration range capability and total cost of ownership. It uses real-world EV performance data to determine which vehicles in your fleet have a suitable EV replacement, while highlighting the financial and environmental impact of making the switch.
What is the role of telematics in an EVSA?
Telematics is a key component in determining a fleet's electrification potential via an EV Suitability Assessment (EVSA). Before doing an EVSA, Geotab's telematics device records the driving patterns of the fleet's gas and diesel vehicles to use as a basis for the assessment. During an EVSA, Geotab taps into telematics data to compare which EV models can best service the fleet's range requirements. The EVSA leverages:
- the largest set of real-world EV performance data
- ratings from the EPA and WLTP on upcoming EV models, and
- data on speed, trip patterns (e.g. idling) and environmental factors like localized ambient temperature for increased accuracy.
What does EVSA stand for?
EVSA stands for Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment. It is a tool that helps fleet managers create a blueprint for electrification. The EVSA delivers the data analysis needed to make the case to transition a fleet to electric in a way that makes sense for the fleet's needs, organization's budget and time frame.
What are the benefits of an Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment?
A key benefit of an Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment is that it can save fleet managers time by making it easy to pinpoint fleet vehicles that can be replaced by an equivalent EV based on their function and range requirements. The EVSA compares EVs based on factors such as:
• Total cost of ownership (includes retail price, maintenance costs, fuel/electricity costs and other expenses)
• EV type (Battery Electric vs. Plug-in Hybrid)
• Vehicle class
• Range
• Local availability
What is an electric vehicle adoption report?
An electric vehicle adoption report from Geotab's EVSA provides an accurate understanding of which fleet vehicles could be replaced by an electric vehicle at lower cost than a replacement internal combustion engine vehicle. This analysis covers the type of vehicle, range capability requirements and the total cost of ownership.
Which vehicles can be replaced by electric vehicles?
The first step to making a well-informed investment in electric vehicles is to identify the needs within your fleet and seek out the vehicles that will best address that need. Understanding the driving patterns of your fleet and your existing vehicle's operating costs is required. Using telematics data to identify existing driving profiles can be a helpful starting point for deciding whether to switch to electric vehicles.
How long does it take to convert to an electric vehicle fleet?
There is no fixed timeline for a switch to electric vehicles. Each fleet carries out different operations and has different replacement cycles for their vehicles. If you are developing a timeline for electrification, it is important to build an overview of the needs within the fleet, your goals and your budget.
What types of electric vehicle are compatible with the Geotab tracking device?
Geotab currently supports more than 200 brands and models of electrical vehicle. Check our reference sheet for a complete list of the electric vehicle brands/models supported.