Are fleet EV payments becoming harder to control?

Someone paying for their charge with a card at the charging point.

More than half of UK fleet leaders say EV adoption has made payment and spend management more complicated, while home charging appears to be creating one of the biggest control gaps.

New Cubic³ research among 250 UK fleet leaders found that 44% of fleets with drivers charging at home rely on drivers reporting their own kWh usage. Only 20% primarily use a dedicated tariff or meter.

Meanwhile, only 41% of respondents believe their fleet payments are fully under control, while teams spend more than 14 hours each month on payment administration and reconciliation.

Fleet leaders expect an average 49% of their vehicles to be electric within three years.

For fleet managers, this becomes an EV governance issue rather than simply an expenses issue.

A reimbursement process that remains manageable with 20 electric vehicles could become a significant administrative and financial-control problem with 200.

As electrification scales, fleets increasingly need charging data that distinguishes business and private energy use automatically rather than relying on manually submitted figures.

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