Predict the gap before the vehicle leaves the depot
For fleet ops teams managing 20 to 200 electric vehicles across urban delivery routes. Fleetvolts flags range-gap risk 12 hours before dispatch so you can fix the schedule, not chase a stranded van.
Three scheduling problems that show up every week
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The charge-gap problem
A van returns at 8pm with 12 percent state of charge. Tomorrow's route needs 78 percent. Standard overnight charging on a shared depot circuit might not bridge that gap before the 5:30am departure. Fleetvolts calculates the exact recharge window needed and checks whether depot capacity allows it, twelve hours before the vehicle hits the road.
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The demand charge problem
Twenty vans plugging in simultaneously after the 6pm return creates a 15-minute demand interval peak that sets next month's utility bill. Fleetvolts staggers session start times to flatten the depot ramp. Every vehicle still hits its departure-ready SOC. The demand line item on the bill drops.
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The route-change problem
A delivery route gets extended at 2pm. The vehicle predicted to return at 88 percent SOC now needs a top-up window. Fleetvolts polls for route updates every 15 minutes, detects the change, and recalculates the affected vehicle's charging window without touching the rest of the night's schedule.
How a fleet ops day looks with Fleetvolts
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5:00 AM
Tonight's charge schedule is already set. Dispatcher opens the morning view: 41 of 43 vehicles confirmed ready, two on priority windows that ran from 1am to 4am. No manual sorting required.
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7:30 AM
Fleet departs. Every vehicle clears the minimum SOC threshold for its assigned route. Fleetvolts logged each session's kWh and tagged the TOU rate period at charge time.
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2:00 PM
A delivery route gets extended mid-day. Fleetvolts detects the update, recalculates that vehicle's energy need, and adjusts its charge window in tonight's schedule without touching the other 42 entries.
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6:00 PM
Vehicles return. OCPP sessions begin according to the staggered schedule. Depot power draw ramps gradually, staying under the transformer capacity ceiling. No demand spike on this evening's 15-minute interval.
Demand charges are often 30 to 40 percent of a depot electricity bill
That is the budget Fleetvolts targets. Scheduling charges into off-peak windows is the single highest-impact action a fleet ops team can take on electricity cost, and it requires no changes to the vehicles or charger hardware.