Fleet electrification: Bridgestone & BIA join forces

Bridgestone Mobility Solutions, a Business Unit of Bridgestone EMIA, and Bia, a software company that has built a platform to forecast, monitor and optimise electric vehicle (EV) charging, have formed a partnership to help power and optimise fleet electrification. This partnership includes Bridgestone Mobility Solution’s investment of an undisclosed sum in Bia.

According to Bridgestone, the collaboration will benefit fleets that operate electric vehicles by providing innovative and fast-paced smart charging solutions, ranging from optimising charging processes to reducing costs, shaving peak loads, managing battery health, and delivering flexible charging that is cheaper and more sustainable.

Cleaner, cheaper & more available charging

“Bridgestone Mobility Solutions and Bia will work together, leveraging fleet data to optimise EV charging for green and low-priced charges, smooth loads, and low battery degradation. This way we can ensure that the charging is cleaner, cheaper and available when needed,” comments Candace Saffery Neufeld, chief executive officer and founder of Bia.

Jan-Maarten de Vries, chief executive officer of Bridgestone Mobility Solutions, adds: “We strongly believe in the electrification of fleets. Our Webfleet EV fleet management solution already helps businesses at every step of the electrification journey: from planning the switch and deploying EVs, to monitoring their usage, reducing running costs and everything else that is needed to get the full value from going electric. This partnership with Bia supports our ambitions to help fleet electrification while utilising data analytics to provide flexibility and optimisation in fleet management. We’re excited to take the next steps in this emerging smart charging market and to help unlock the full potential of e-mobility for a successful clean energy transition.”