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Swedish truck maker Volvo unveiled its first electric prime movers in Australia at the Brisbane Truck Show. Tim Camilleri, e-mobility Solutions Manager at Volvo Group, stepped up into the cab of the FM to record this interview with our podcast host Caroline Falls. “If this vehicle doesn't make noise, what can we do with it? How do we optimise its usage even further above and beyond what a vehi...

Tim Staley, Transport & Logistics Lead and Chief Operating Officer at technology consultancy NCS, spoke to Fleet News podcast, about key trends in transport, including autonomous vehicles, mobility as a service, intelligent transport systems to dynamically manage traffic, and more. Staley whose broad senior executive experience encompasses working at global consultancy Accenture, major world m...

Brendan Wheeler, who co-founded EV charger supply group EVSE in 2015, talks to Fleet News Group podcast, about Australia’s new EV strategy, the outlook for EVs and charging infrastructure and gives a template for fleet managers to follow when making the transition. "We've really got to take them all the way back to the start and ask some of those fundamental questions, such as, how many v...

Fleet News Group podcast host Caroline Falls talks with Richard Lovell, executive director and head of debt markets at the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, about the Federal Government-backed green bank’s investments to accelerate decarbonisation of the transport sector, including electrifying fleets. “There's a few recent developments, that have been very conducive to the transport sector, o...

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Senior Campaigner Violette Snow talks with Fleet News Group’s podcast host Caroline Falls about the pro environmental group’s inaugural fleet rankings, and a new report outlining the case for corporate fleets to transition to renewable energy powered electric vehicles. IKEA was named top green fleet in Australia by Greenpeace in mid March for its progress and commitmen...

Fleet News Group’s podcast host Caroline Falls chats via Skype to truck industry stalwart and advocate Jacquelene Brotherton as she drives to an appointment (We mention that because the sound quality is a bit bumpy). They talk about the ups and downs in the industry, covering staff shortages, Scott’s transport group’s collapse, concern about sustainability, shifts to improve regulation, appreciati...

In this Fleet News Group podcast linked here Samantha Johnson, managing director of Polestar Australia, talks about the Volvo sister company’s electric vehicle design and its pole position among automakers in the sustainability race. “Polestar really are ahead of everyone else in the auto industry, and they are influencing others to come along on their journey,” said Johnson. “We are doing everyth...

Fleet management group EROAD’s business development manager Chris Emerson talks on this Fleet News Group podcast about increasing pressure on fleets to meet sustainability targets, the future of road funding and what is top of mind for fleet managers in 2023. “We know that a lot of very large organisations and government organisations are definitely feeling the pressure of the 2030 targets to get...

Stafford talks about connected vehicle technology trends, advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and their impacts on fleets and the fleet manager. As a manufacturer of telematics and connected vehicle technology Stafford said Directed Technologies’ role is to ease the workload on fleet managers; to give them information which is actionable. Directed Technologies is a leading aut...

To kick off 2023, Fleet News Group talk with Michael Hasten of LBM Fleet Solutions about one of our favourite topics — how the circular economy affects fleets. "The circular economy has a multitude of impacts on fleet,” said Hasten, LBM’s chief commercial officer. “It's really adding a constraint to the traditional take and make approach. It's all about how do we actually reduce,reuse, recycle, to...

Fleet News Group podcast host Caroline Falls talks with Lee Sauerwald, president of the Australian Fleet Management Association (AfMA), for the last recording of 2022, about his own award winning fleet sustainability practices. “Right back in probably 2010 is when we first started on our journey. And we've been on a carbon reduction path ever since,” said Sauerwald, adding that Uniting Communities...

Carola Jonas, CEO and founder of Everty, a company that offers a software platform to help companies operate and manage their EV charging infrastructure, talked to Fleet News Group. She talked about the positive impact the removal of the fringe benefit tax on certain-priced electric vehicles will have. She also forecast the disparity will widen between low-cost charging of an EV compared with fill...

Fleet News Group podcast host Caroline Falls talks with EnergyAustralia’s Jack Kotlyar about his NextGen unit’s dedication to helping fleets get set for electrifying their vehicles. “From an EA perspective, and from a NextGen perspective, we are focusing on that electrification and decarbonization journey for those customers looking to buy electric vehicles,” said Kotlyar, Head of NextGen business...

Fleet News Group podcast host Caroline Falls talks with Evenergi managing partner Steve Lewis about how rapidly the climate has changed for EV adoption in the last six months, since his in-depth presentation at the AfMA fleet conference in May. “The thing that's really sparked it is probably led to a degree by the federal government,” said Lewis, referring to the ousting of the Coalition by Labor...

Former 60-Minutes journalist Ray Martin and inventor Matthew Vaughan talk to Fleet News Group's Caroline Falls in this podcast linked here about the revolutionary suspension smoothing Base Air system that Martin reckons is among Australia’s best and biggest inventions — akin he reckons to WiFi, the Black Box, and the Cochlear implant. “I thought Matthew was just in the long line of these littl...

ORYX People’s top directors Kris de Jager and Sharon Henderson talk about the changing role of the fleet manager, the great resignation and moves to attract more women in the transport sector in this Fleet News Group podcast.

Last-mile delivery group ANC’s CEO, Joe Sofra, talks about transitioning his fleet of 1,000 vehicles to electric, and concerns about charging infrastructure, in this Fleet Auto News podcast. “At the moment my point of anxiety isn't necessarily around being able to source vehicles. My point of anxiety is much more around the supporting infrastructure to charge these vehicles. I'm probably more focu...

“I'm a lifelong surfer … an outdoor enthusiast and so the ocean environment has always been in my direct line of sight,” said Jay Collins, US-based senior vice president and general manager of EV and mobility at global fuel card brand WEX Inc. Collins was speaking to Fleet Auto News’ Caroline Falls from his Portland, Maine, US home for this podcast talking about the big wave developing in EVs, and...

Fleet News Group talks with leaders at mapping technology specialists HERE Technologies and Hema Maps in this podcast about their location services that help keep drivers on remote roads safe. Robert Gallagher, HEMA Maps MD: “We're collecting enough data out there to get people into the regions and back home safely.” Dan Antonello, GM ANZ, HERE Techonologies: “A lot of the products that come out o...

“A lot of our customers are looking to do business with people who are net carbon neutral,” Philip Browne, MD of Autorola, Australia, tells Fleet Auto News’ Caroline Falls in this podcast. Browne talks about soaring used car prices, the group’s lean marketing practices of used fleet vehicles, and how they helped the online auctioneer go carbon neutral. “It's all about being lean, and, and looking...

In our latest Fleet Auto News podcast we talked to Danielle Lackey, chief legal officer at Motus, a software as a service business for route planning, and accounting for personal use of fleet vehicles, among other things. We talked about the landscape in the United States and the appetite for transport sustainability. The data captured by Motus from the 300,000 drivers using its system underpins t...

Max Wang, an architect of the RACV’s multi-model journey planning app Arevo, talks to Fleet News Group’s Caroline Falls for this podcast linked here about MaaS, or mobility as a service, and how it can help fleets meet sustainability goals. For a lesson 101 on MaaS, Wang, now Senior Product Manager at Intelematics, a pioneer Australian telematics group and a unit of RACV, the royal automobile club...

Fleet News Group spoke to Balz Eggenberger, Founder of Swiss-based fleet management consultancy Fleetcompetence, about the way fleets are managing the transition to electric vehicles in Europe. Eggenberger who works with 55 partners in Europe and the US said the pivot to sustainability has brought the top management to the table with fleet management. He talked about being involved in two big proj...

Ampol’s head of e-Mobility Angeles Miranda talks to Fleet Auto News Caroline Falls for our podcast series about the Australian petroleum company’s rollout of a national electric vehicle charging network, called AmpCharge, and how fleets are making the transition to  EVs. In April 2022, Ampol announced it was rolling out an EV charging network at its petrol stations around the country, th...

Route planning can cut emissions as much as 20 percent is the takeaway from this podcast conversation with HERE Technologies’ Jason Jameson. Caroline Falls talks with the technology group’s general manager Asia Pacific about how technology can help organisations meet their sustainability goals. “Sustainability is the big challenge of our time,” said Jameson, adding, “And from a business standpoint...