EEVEE Mobility offers powerful Cost Control Rules to get a grip on the charging costs of your fleet. You can set budgets, define allowed countries or get informed about preventable duration costs (idle fees).
Which rules can be configured?
You can set multiple cost control rules. These can be assigned on an individual basis, or for the entire fleet. You can create different rules of the same type.
Allowed countries
Define in which countries public charging is allowed (geofencing) and get alerted if someone charges outside of the allowed regions. Learn more
Monthly budget
Define a maximum charging budget and get alerted if someone charges more than he or she is allowed to. Learn more
Session duration cost
Set limits on the duration cost at the charger (incl. idle fees) and get alerted if there are any duration costs, or a threshold is reached.
Session energy cost
Set limits on the actual energy cost (rate per kWh charged) and get alerted if the cost per kWh was more than you did allow.
Session start cost
Set limits on the cost for initiating a charging session and get alerted if there was a session start cost, or a threshold reached.
Total session cost
Define the maximum cost for an individual session and get alerted if the charging sessions did cost more than the amount you did set as a threshold.
Rule breaches are only made visible towards the fleet manager in the EEVEE Business portal. The driver currently does not see breaches in the mobile app, or is not notified about it. This means:
Drivers will be able to charge outside allowed countries. The card is not blocked. You will however see these sessions as avoidable costs.
Home or public charging costs can be made beyond the set budget limit. Nothing will be blocked. You will see the excess/avoidable amount.
💡 TIP: you can let drivers pay for private charging (based on the cost control rule for allowed countries). Check out this article to learn more.
How to view breaches/avoidable costs?
When a rule is breached, a yellow banner appears in Data & Insights. The banner shows the number of drivers who breached one or more cost control rules. You can filter to see drivers or sessions with breaches, or filter per rule.
There you can see the total avoidable cost per driver (for all sessions in that month). You can click-through to see sessions and details about specific breaches.
Additionally, you can explore avoidable costs and breaches via the 'Cost control' tab. This shows the total avoidable cost and split per rule. If enabled, private charging will also be shown here (learn more).
Here are a few things to know for how rules, breaches or avoidable costs work:
Fleets can configure rule cost control rules and assign them to drivers. Multiple rules of the same type can exist (e.g. charging allowed in Benelux vs allowed in Europe). A driver can only be assigned to 1 rule of the same type.
The avoidable cost amount should be interpreted as 'if all configured rules were followed by the driver, €X of the total charging cost could have been avoided'.
We don't count euros twice in the avoidable cost. For example: if a session of €100 was done abroad (e.g. Spain, not allowed) and had a duration cost of €40 (e.g. not allowed), the following would be shown:
2 breaches: allowed countries and duration cost
€100 total avoidable cost (not €140, because that would be impossible. The session cost €100 in total. The €40 duration cost was already included).
Assuming the session took place in an allowed country, the duration cost would still be applicable. The avoidable cost would then become only €40.
In the 'Cost control' tab, we do show a split per rule. This helps identify which rules are the most impactful. The same principles should be applied. Euros can't be counted twice. But they are shown separately. For example (assuming fleet with only that one driver):
Table with split per rule would show:
Allowed countries: €100 avoidable with 1 breach
Duration cost: €40 avoidable with 1 breach
Total avoidable cost in that month would be €100, not €140.
In the 'Cost control' tab, we show rules that were applied in that month (or rules where drivers were invoiced, even if the rule is meanwhile removed).
These rules help fleets identify costs that should have been avoided, and avoid them proactively in some cases. That's how you can understand, handle and reduce your charging costs with EEVEE Mobility.
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