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New advances in the form of GPS-enabled smartphones, netbooks and other technologies are making vehicle tracking easier and cheaper for everyone. Are these new systems any good? What are their implications and what are the likely impacts on the Fleet vehicle tracking industry?

In the world of fleet management the many benefits of vehicle tracking and GPS devices are well known. There’s no secret to the fact that vehicle tracking systems save organisations huge amounts of time and money (as well as radically improving customer service) by providing pinpoint vehicle locations and a host of vital vehicle stats and performance data.

Forewarned is forearmed. Knowing the real-time location of vehicles means that traffic jams, complicated routes and unnecessary mileage can be avoided, as can inefficient vehicle speeds. The benefits go on – you protect against employee fraud, the misuse and personal use of company vehicles and theft; you can ensure time sheets are accurate, monitor driving standards and retrain if necessary; you can improve safety and strengthen accountability; and ultimately improve efficiency and profits.

Until now fleet management systems have been designed, sold and supported by fleet management and vehicle tracking specialists – GPS devices with custom developed, dedicated software. These are companies with a clear understanding of the fleet management sector and experience in the sort of problems faced and how best to deal with them. The principle here is that if you want a job done properly go to a professional for the best solution. In the private and domestic markets too, names like such as Garmin and TomTom have become commonplace, offering popular real-time GPS systems that save drivers time, money and hassle.  Read more...

Electric Vehicles – Seeing the Big Picture
The burgeoning electric vehicle EV industry cannot be understood by simply looking at cars. The complete market value is, and will remain, about double the market for cars. The leaders such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan make electric vehicles for many applicational sectors. Indeed, many of them also control the manufacture of the component that most affects price and performance – the battery. For example, Nissan has a major program to put next generation lithium batteries from its battery joint venture into its forklifts as well as its cars. Toyota makes heavy and light industrial EVs from forklifts to buses and mobility for the disabled, not just electric cars, and the knowledge in these different divisions is shared between them all. Much is written about hybrid cars but there are substantial sales of hybrid military trucks, buses and even motorcycles now.

New report
IDTechEx has therefore launched a new report on the whole subject called “Electric Vehicles 2010-2020″. It is based on ten years of researching the subject, intensive desk research, visits and interviews. There are chapters on Heavy Industrial, Light Industrial and Commercial, Mobility for the Disabled, Two Wheelers, Golf Cars, Cars, Military, Marine and Other vehicles. That even extends to electric mobile robots, surveillance jellyfish and other Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), bats and electric aircraft. Detailed forecasts for these vehicle categories by numbers and value and the key components are provided for 2010-2020. The trends, technology and planned vehicles are clarified in 185 figures and 58 tables including the historical context. Winning and losing strategies are evaluated. Timelines are given of events to come.  Read more...

INTRODUCTION

Automatic Vehicle Tracking facility is the demand of new era it delivers the flexibility, scalability, and responsiveness that every organization need. It is a fact that already been accepted that better communication result better control and supervision. Imagine when a solution provides accurate, up-to-minute information, high- speed communication, and powerful analysis features required to make better decisions faster.

It is now widely recognized that real – time vehicle information will revolutionize the control and logistical organization with significant vehicle fleets. In a global marketplace where productivity is crucial to success, vehicle fleet operators use vehicle management systems as a formidable tool to drive down costs and increase the value of their service.

AREAS OF CONCERN FOR AN ORGANIZATION

If we talk about the manufacturing and transportation business than it is obvious that availability of vehicles and operational efficiency are crucial areas.

Sometime it is very difficult to maintain and manage the manual processes in order to generate information like determining a vehicle carrying goods from the factory to a particular destination and carrying raw material as a return load back to the factory. With a mission to improve operational efficiency in terms of cycle-time monitoring and fleet management, the companies are ready to adopt technologies that take care of vehicle tracking.

Key Factors: affecting the current working scenario in an organization

· Higher error possibilities

· Permit slip is not identified with the vehicle’s Identity

· Higher measured weight than actual  Read more...

With gas prices rising in the backdrop of a receding US economy, most motorists are trying to increase their vehicle miles per gallon of gas. This has become especially important as inflation hits an all time high in the US. One of the best ways to increase your vehicle miles per gallon, is by converting your car to partially run on water.

The technology used to partially run a vehicle on water relies on HHO (2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen) technology. This technology is based on an old patent. Modern day HHO technology leverages upon a concept called Brown’s Gas to partially power your vehicle.

HHO guides are extremely popular. HHO conversion guides are some of the best selling e-books on the internet. This is because HHO conversions can be done easily. The quality of HHO guides vary greatly. Some HHO guides are more detailed and they may contain extraneous information that is designed to satiate the most curious of consumers. Others are more to the point, and they’re written without any additional bells and whistles. The writing style of the guides can also vary greatly. Some guides are written for laymen, whereas other guides are written for experienced car modifiers.  Read more...

Fuel Economy and Mobile Resource Management

The increasing economic importance of implementing real-time vehicle tracking as part of a commercial company’s mobile resource management policy can now be viewed as essential for comprehensive operational control, remote driver security and fuel savings. Dearer oil is increasing costs for many businesses – particularly those with large fleets of vehicles – and is adding a powerful financial impetus to the search for fuel efficiencies.

Technology has a significant role to play in reducing fuel consumption, which also has clear environmental benefits.

An example of a measurable fuel saving combined with a corresponding reduction in carbon emissions is Interserve, a building management company, who have both saved 15 per cent of its fuel costs and seen a drop in CO² by tracking its vehicles with satellites.

With rising fuel costs, retailers are smart-routing to avoid traffic jams, either by combining deliveries, improving fleets or reconfiguring routes. This is to maximise the number of deliveries while minimising time and distance. It has been found that even restricting the number of left hand turns can improve on time, efficiency and energy savings.

Using GPS vehicle tracking technology and viewing interactive maps online enabled the company to see where it was losing money, time and wasting fuel – such as on duplicated journeys.

Yet in some countries, there are legal concerns over using tracking technology. In the UK, for example, the law stipulates that companies must tell drivers if they use telematics to monitor vehicles for anything other than asset tracking.