Bridgestone and Bia partner to optimise fleet electrification

Bridgestone Mobility Solutions and Bia have joined forces to help optimise fleet electrification through new smart charging solutions.

The collaboration will benefit fleets with electric vehicles, by providing smart charging solutions, ranging from optimising charging processes to reducing costs, shaving peak loads, managing battery health, and delivering flexible charging that is cheaper and more sustainable.

Candace Saffery Neufeld, CEO and founder of Bia, commented: “Bridgestone Mobility Solutions and Bia will work together, leveraging fleet data to optimize EV charging for green and low-priced charges, smooth loads, and low battery degradation. This way we can ensure that the charging is cleaner, cheaper and available when needed.’

Jan-Maarten de Vries, CEO Bridgestone Mobility Solutions, said: “We strongly believe in the electrification of fleets. Our Webfleet EV fleet management solution already helps businesses at every step of the electrification journey, from planning the switch and deploying EVs, to monitoring their usage, reducing running costs and everything else that is needed to get the full value from going electric.

“This partnership with Bia supports our ambitions to help fleet electrification, while utilising data analytics to provide flexibility and optimisation in fleet management. We’re excited to take the next steps in this emerging smart charging market and to help unlock the full potential of e-mobility for a successful clean energy transition.”