Over the next year, The EV Café and Openreach will take people behind the scenes of that journey and introduce the partners helping to make it happen.
Openreach operates a fleet of more than 23,000 vehicles with over 7000 electric vehicles. Its move to electric has involved far more than choosing vans: engineers need vehicles that suit their jobs, dependable ways to charge, equipment that works in the field and data that helps the fleet keep improving.
The year-long partnership will share what Openreach and its partner ecosystem have learned along the way. Allstar, Clayton Power, Geotab, MIS Conversions, Kelling Group, Holman, Stewart Signs and myenergi will each bring a different part of the story to life, from charging and telematics to conversions, on-board power, livery, funding and remarketing.
The scale makes those lessons valuable. Openreach has installed more than 4,000 chargers at engineers’ homes and operational sites, however, around one in three engineers cannot have a home charger. That means finding charging options that fit how people actually work, wherever they live and that’s just one example of why collaboration matters as a fleet makes the switch.
For The EV Café, the partnership marks another step in its growth as a trusted place for practical conversations about electrification bringing fleet operators, suppliers and decision makers together to share what works in the real world.
The series will follow the work behind the vehicles and the people making it happen, offering useful insights for any fleet working out its own route to electric.
