Electric vehicle overview

MyGeotab automatically identifies and classifies electric vehicles to support monitoring, reporting, and analysis across your fleet.

Note:

The term Electric Vehicle (EV) refers to a vehicle that plugs into an electric power source to charge and store electric energy. This includes plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEV) and battery EVs (BEV). It does not include conventional hybrids, as they do not plug into an electric power source.

Important:

To determine which EVs receive support, visit the EV Make/Model Support Reference. The GO Plan is required.

Managing your EVs with MyGeotab's monitoring and reporting capabilities is a powerful way to get the most out of your electric fleet. These features help you track performance, optimize operations, and make informed decisions.

Capability

Description

Understand and classify your EVs

Learn how MyGeotab automatically identifies and groups electric vehicles for easy reporting.

Analyze charging and energy use

Access data and reports on your vehicles' charging status, energy consumption, and battery health.

Optimize fleet operations

Use insights to improve routing, manage charging queues, and make strategic decisions for your electric fleet.

Finding and filtering EVs: Powertrain and fuel type automatic groups

There are automatically populated built-in groups that allow you to quickly find and filter on EVs in features, reports, and exception rules.

Note:

For a vehicle's electric powertrain to be detected, the EV must be supported, and, in the case of a BEV or PHEV, it must have charged at least once. For a full list of supported makes and models, see EV Make/Model Support Reference.

Found under the Asset Information group (Groups & Rules > Groups), the Powertrain and Fuel Type group automatically classifies electric vehicles based on their unique powertrain types:

Group

Description

Electric or Plug-in Hybrid

Contains all detected Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and detected Plug-in Hybrids (PHEV).

Battery Electric Vehicle (under Electric or Plug-in Hybrid)

Contains all detected fully electric Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs).

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (under Electric or Plug-in Hybrid)

Contains all detected Plug-in Hybrids (PHEV).

Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

Contains all detected Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV).

Powertrain and Fuel Type built-in group hierarchy showing Battery Electric Vehicle and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle subgroups

Changing automatic classifications

Assets can be manually added or removed from the groups if they are not properly displayed in their respective group.

  • If an asset is manually assigned to any of these groups, that asset is tagged under the Manually Classified Powertrain group.

  • Once an asset is manually classified, the Manually Classified Powertrain group must be removed in order for the asset to get automatically classified again.

  • If the Manually Classified Powertrain group is removed to re-enable automatic classification, it is recommended that any existing powertrain or fuel type group for the asset is removed at the same time. An asset can be part of multiple groups if it is manually classified. However, in an automatic classification scenario, the asset may be only part of one built-in group.

Live map positions: EV charging status and charge percentage

For supported EVs, the live Map displays the current battery charge percentage and indicates whether the vehicle is charging, driving, or stopped.

EV charging status and charge percentage questions and answers

Key Questions

Answers

Know What's Happening in Real-Time

  • Who needs to charge?
  • Who is actively charging?
  • Who has the most or least battery charge percentage?

Map Live Positions:

  • Allows you to see actively charging EVs and the real-time charge percentage for EVs.

Map and list view

The Map view and List view of the live map showing EV charging status and charge level.

The Map view allows you to see which EVs are charging, outside or inside a zone.

The List view allows you to see which EVs are charging, as well as the driving charge percentage for each EV, updated at 1% increments. The List view also allows you to sort vehicles by battery charge percentage (EV Charge Level). Sort from highest to lowest to identify which vehicles are most ready for operations, or from lowest to highest to identify which need to be prioritized for charging.

Engine measurements

With EV data diagnostics, Engine Measurements allows for more advanced reporting that is not supported by the reports and features described in this guide.

To access Engine Measurements, navigate to Maintenance > Measurements from the main menu.

For more detailed information on EV data diagnostics and their availability, visit the Electric Vehicle Data Diagnostics and API User Guide.