IRONPROS caught up with Trimble Transportation Business Area Manager for Mobility Foundations Sherif Nasr for a wide-ranging conversation on how electric vehicles (EVs) will impact telematics and fleet maintenance and operations,
IRONPROS: With internal combustion engines, diesel engines, you may have an engine manufacturer that will provide a data set from that engine, in terms of performance, trouble codes, operating characteristics. You may also have other components in that vehicle doing the same. In some cases, there may be a shared API between all of them that provides you with more prognostic data than you could get just looking at one component. How is that different once you start looking at an electric powertrain?
NASR: It's entirely different. It's entirely different. We have been lucky, actually, with the combustion engine, because there is a standard out there. Yeah. Everybody looking at me right now will nod in agreement with that, because we have the SAE J1939 standard protocol, and at the very least, you have access to hundreds of parameters that you can make very good insights out of. With EVs, however, almost every company comes up with their own private protocol. Now, are they going to actually get to a point where they standardize some of the stuff? That's yet to be seen? But for now, it's a one-to-one transaction ... stream the full conversation for more.
