Most teams planning fleet electrification focus on vehicles, charge points and grid capacity. But the real efficiency lever sits elsewhere: in how you use and integrate your fleet data.

When data becomes the bottleneck

EV projects don’t only fail because of vehicles or charging infrastructure, they stall when critical information sits in isolated systems.

Route data in transport management, energy data in building management, vehicle data in fleet systems, charging data in the CPO backend: if these streams stay in silos, your EV fleet slows down.

This is the data silo blockade – it reduces efficiency and makes day-to-day operations unnecessarily expensive.

Consequences of isolated systems

If electric fleet management runs on disconnected tools, you risk:

• Hidden inefficiencies: Without linking vehicle and energy data, idle time and energy use rise.
• Unused capacity: With no connection between charging and routing, some sites sit idle while others face bottlenecks.
• Poor operational agility: Delays or outages can’t be absorbed; routes can’t be re-planned dynamically.

Why this happens so often

The root causes are usually organisational:

• Legacy, unconnected IT: Transport, energy, charging and fleet systems were introduced independently over time.
• Underestimated interdependencies: Range, charging windows and energy demand are more intertwined than many expect.
• Split ownership: Separate departments keep separate tools – end-to-end transparency is missing.

Data integration in e-mobility drives efficiency

With the right data integration in place, costs fall and reliability rises across the fleet.

Whether via a central data platform, real-time monitoring or standards-based interfaces, transparency lets you align charging infrastructure, vehicles, and logistics – and operate your electric fleet efficiently.

Which steps matter in practice and how organisations overcome the data silo blockade, is covered in our free e-mail course "Your roadmap to successful fleet electrification".

More from the series “The 5 biggest mistakes in fleet electrification”

• Grid capacity trap – the most expensive mistake in fleet electrification
• Overdimensioning cost trap – when too much infrastructure makes costs explode
• All-charging-at-once myth – why your charging infrastructure is overloaded
• 1:1 replacement myth – why diesel vehicles cannot simply be swapped one-to-one