The connected FCA vehicles will provide valuable telemetry data in real time, including mileage, fuel level, and updates on the mechanical condition of the car.
A fully connected fleet increases operational efficiency for Avis Budget Group by providing greater visibility into fleet usage and access to information in real-time.
Motorq’s cloud-based system ingests and monitors Toyota’s embedded telematics data, runs advanced analytics, contextualizes the insights with other information sets such as weather and mapping, and delivers those insights to customers via application programming interfaces and other tools.
Some travelers in Miami have been leaving cars at gas stations that had run out of fuel for customers.
Connected vehicles allow Avis customers to manage their entire rental experience through the Avis mobile app, including choosing the type of vehicle they want to rent, upgrading and extending the duration of their rental from their phones.
Avis’s expansion of its TNC rentals program depends on its ability to manage vehicle mileage and telemetry, made possible by a connected car.
The fleet will cover an estimated 4 billion road miles this year and is anticipated to generate over 7 billion road miles of data with its fully connected fleet in 2020.
The partnership between TSD, a rental fleet management software provider, and Zubie, a connected-car and telematics platform, will give fleet operators a connected car solution integrated with fleet management data.
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