Managing 3,200+ EVs and a Growing Charging Network for Fjordlight Mobility

Fjordlight Mobility grew its Nordic electric vehicle fleet from a few hundred vehicles to more than 3,200 in a few years — a genuine growth success story that had completely outpaced the spreadsheet-based fleet tracking the company started with. What worked for a few hundred vehicles simply couldn't scale to thousands, and the cracks were showing everywhere.

Charging station faults or downtime were often only discovered the hard way: a driver would arrive at a station expecting to charge and find it wasn't working, with no advance warning to reroute them elsewhere. Vehicles charged whenever they happened to be plugged in, with no coordination across the fleet, which meant charging costs spiked during peak electricity demand periods that smarter scheduling could easily have avoided.

Corporate fleet clients — a growing and increasingly important part of Fjordlight's business — were asking for emissions and sustainability reports as standard due diligence, and Fjordlight had no automated way to produce them; compiling one meant manual data-pulling that didn't scale as the client roster grew. Route and vehicle assignment planning didn't account for real-time battery range or charging station availability either, occasionally assigning a route a vehicle couldn't comfortably complete without an unplanned charging stop.

The foundational piece was real-time fleet telematics — pulling live location, battery state, and vehicle health data from all 3,200+ vehicles into one platform, replacing spreadsheets that had never been designed for this scale in the first place. That same telemetry approach extended to the charging network itself, so station faults surface as an alert within minutes rather than being discovered by a stranded driver.

Smart charge scheduling was the piece with the clearest direct cost impact: rather than every vehicle charging the moment it's plugged in, the system coordinates charging across the fleet to shift load toward off-peak electricity pricing windows wherever a vehicle's schedule allows the flexibility, meaningfully reducing per-vehicle charging costs without requiring drivers to think about electricity pricing at all.

For corporate clients, we built an automated sustainability and emissions reporting module that pulls directly from real fleet telematics data — actual distance driven, actual charging sourced, not estimates — turning what used to be a manual, multi-day report-building exercise into something Fjordlight's account managers can generate on demand for any client, for any time period.

Range-aware route and vehicle assignment closed the loop: the system now factors in each vehicle's actual current battery range and nearby charging station availability before assigning it to a route, preventing the awkward situation of a vehicle being assigned a route it can't comfortably complete. We piloted the full platform on a 400-vehicle sub-fleet, deliberately including a mix of vehicle models and route types, before extending it across the full fleet and charging network.