Edited by EishiFUN
Hi everyone
When a fuel fill-up is registered in geotab drive through the fuel tracker edit, does the data feed the fuel and energy use module? in addition to knowing the cost of the fuel fill-up, can the system use this information to estimate fuel consumption and performance?
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Hey @Francisco Núñez,
When you use the Fuel Tracker in Geotab Drive, it creates a FuelTransaction object in Geotab. These FuelTransactions can be associated automatically with a FillUp in Geotab. If that happens, you'll see the associated FuelTransaction when you view a FillUp on the Fuel and EV Energy Usage page. If it doesn't automatically associate with a FillUp (because there wasn't a calculated FillUp at that time), then the FuelTransaction will get its own row in that page and if you click into it, you won't see a FillUp associated with it. I hope that helps explain the relationship between the Fuel Tracker transactions and what you see on that page. And yes it can help the estimate for fuel consumption, but it's much better if you just enter the tank capacity on the vehicles, then the fuel consumption will use that and the percent change to give you a much more accurate data set.
Thanks,
Tucker
Hey, @Francisco Núñez!
Tagging in @EishiFUN in case he can get an official answer. Also @TuckerBA-1087 in case he knows, since he's dug into the fuel stuff so much.
Hoping this helps and I can learn along with you on it. :)
Best,
Joy B
Hey @Francisco Núñez,
When you use the Fuel Tracker in Geotab Drive, it creates a FuelTransaction object in Geotab. These FuelTransactions can be associated automatically with a FillUp in Geotab. If that happens, you'll see the associated FuelTransaction when you view a FillUp on the Fuel and EV Energy Usage page. If it doesn't automatically associate with a FillUp (because there wasn't a calculated FillUp at that time), then the FuelTransaction will get its own row in that page and if you click into it, you won't see a FillUp associated with it. I hope that helps explain the relationship between the Fuel Tracker transactions and what you see on that page. And yes it can help the estimate for fuel consumption, but it's much better if you just enter the tank capacity on the vehicles, then the fuel consumption will use that and the percent change to give you a much more accurate data set.
Thanks,
Tucker
Hi @TuckerBA-1087
Thank you for sharing this information with us,
If I understood correctly, to obtain data closer to reality it is advisable to indicate the capacity of the fuel tank, this will make that together with the filling that is recorded by the add-in the system will feed from both sources of information to reflect the performance of the fuel?
Hey pretty much, but honestly the Fuel Tracker add-in is unnecessary if you're just looking to get your performance in terms of fuel consumption and performance. The fuel tracker only adds transaction information. In fact, I would recommend against using it if that's all you're looking for, because there could be human error that could cause the values to be incorrect, but if you rely on the information Geotab is capturing from the ECM, then as long as you have accurate fuel tank capacities, you'll get accurate fuel consumption data.
I understand, the use case I am testing is for vehicles that do not deliver fuel data through their ECM, this as an alternative for customers who need to obtain fuel data on vehicles that do not deliver fuel data.
I see, then yes it should work. I would still test it to be sure, because I haven't used it for that specific use case before, but my understanding is that it will use the fuel transaction if there are no fillups. This is also subject to change in the future, so make sure you're keeping up with the stuff they put out on the preview server. Geotab is making some changes to the fuel objects this year.
I think Tucker is right on with what he has shared. If there are any other unanswered questions you want me to ask our team just let me know!
Thanks for tagging me in @JoyB-1751 and thank you Tucker for sharing what you have learned with us!
Thanks!
For the time being we will do some tests, I will let you know how it goes!