Europcar Mobility Group Chooses Telefónica and Geotab to Connect Its Vehicles in Europe
23 Outubro 2020 - 3:58AM
Business Wire
- Following a pilot in Mallorca in 2018, Europcar Mobility
Group strengthens its partnership with Telefónica and Geotab in
Europe as part of its global Connected Cars program.
- Telefónica and Geotab solution enables real time telematics
monitoring of the vehicle fleet for a better customer
experience.
- Europcar Mobility Group aims to connect its entire fleet by
2023.
- The first stage of deployment is planned in France in 2020
starting with Vans & Trucks fleet, other countries will follow
in 2021.
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Europcar Mobility Group
(Paris:EUCAR) announces today that it is strengthening its
partnership with Telefónica and Geotab, in line with its objective
to progressively deploy its Connected Cars program. Europcar
Mobility Group already had 44,000 connected cars in 2019 and aims
to connect all of its fleet by 2023, as part of its “Connect”
roadmap.
Telefónica and Geotab: a strategic choice for Europcar
Mobility Group
Through this partnership,
Geotab and Telefónica will provide the Group with seamless access
to engine data, driving behavior and GPS location including
insights into: distances travelled, mileage, speed, acceleration,
fuel level, accident detection, etc. As a key component of Europcar
Mobility Group’s Connected Cars program, this data will be
processed to help improve customer experience and optimize business
applications and internal processes such as fleet inventory
management, vehicle delivery and collection, vehicle maintenance,
vehicle return and more.
Europcar Mobility Group can
count on Telefónica in-house capabilities and elite partners to
guarantee the delivery of the most innovative, reliable and secured
solutions backed by the scale of a world-class operator. Over 20
million connected devices are part of the growing Telefónica IoT
connectivity Kite Platform. Telefónica provides managed
connectivity services across the world with best in class service
levels underpinned by a team of dedicated experts working around
the clock.
"As a leading mobility service
company, Europcar Mobility Group sees technology as a strong
enabler of both operational excellence and value creation. We chose
Telefonica and Geotab for their agile, service-oriented solutions,
their cutting-edge mobility and fleet management technologies as
well as their international coverage”, declared Olivier Baldassari,
Chief Countries & Operations Officer of Europcar Mobility
Group.
"We are very pleased to
strengthen our partnership with the Europcar Mobility Group,
supporting them in their digital transformation process with our
IoT and Big Data solutions. Thanks to our expertise, we have been
able to come up with an ad hoc, scalable solution." said Gonzalo
Martín-Villa, Global Director of IoT and Big Data at Telefónica
Tech.
“Thanks to great partners such
as Telefónica and Europcar Mobility Group, we are advancing
essential connected car technology every day," said Neil Cawse, CEO
of Geotab. "Collaborating with industry leaders around the world
allows us to better enable fleet ecosystems to develop maintenance
and sustainability programs that can help optimize the cost of
ownership of each vehicle.”
About Europcar Mobility Group Europcar Mobility Group is a major player in
mobility markets and listed on Euronext Paris. The mission of
Europcar Mobility Group is to be the preferred “Mobility Service
Company” by offering attractive alternatives to vehicle ownership,
with a wide range of mobility-related services and solutions: car
rental and light commercial vehicle rental, chauffeur services,
car-sharing and private hire vehicle (PHV – rental to “Uber like”
chauffeurs).
Customers’ satisfaction is at
the heart of the Group’s mission and all its employees and this
commitment fuels the continuous development of new
services.
Europcar Mobility Group
operates through a diversified portfolio of brands meeting every
customer specific needs and use cases, be it for 1 hour, 1 day, 1
week or longer ; its 4 major brands being: Europcar® - the European
leader of car rental and light commercial vehicle rental, Goldcar®
- the low-cost car-rental Leader in Europe, InterRent® – ‘mid-tier’
car rental and Ubeeqo® – one of the European leaders of round- trip
car-sharing (BtoB, BtoC).
Europcar Mobility Group
delivers its mobility solutions worldwide solutions through an
extensive network in over 140 countries (including wholly owned
subsidiaries – 18 in Europe, 1 in the USA, 2 in Australia and New
Zealand – completed by franchises and partners).
Further details on our
website: www.europcar-mobility-group.com
About Telefónica Telefónica is one the largest
telecommunications service providers in the world. The company
offers fixed and mobile connectivity as well as a wide range of
digital services for residential and business customers. With 337
million customers, Telefónica operates in Europe and Latin America.
Telefónica is a 100% listed company and its shares are traded on
the Spanish Stock Market and on those in New York and
Lima.
About Geotab Geotab is
advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the internet
and providing web-based analytics to help customers better manage
their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace, offering
hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and
large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data
with their other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device
provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing
billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and
machine learning to help customers improve productivity, optimize
fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver
safety, and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes As the
#1 commercial telematics company in the world, Geotab’s
award-winning solution is found in more than 2 million vehicles
across all seven continents and is specifically designed to enable
businesses to better manage their fleets. Geotab’s products are
represented and sold worldwide through Authorized Geotab
Resellers.
To learn more, please visit
https://www.geotab.com/fr and follow us @GEOTAB and on LinkedIn.
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