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The Truck That Learned to Pay for Its Own Fuel
Two fleet operators got tired of discovering fuel-card fraud after the money was gone. Their answer was to make a truck, a driver and a pump agree before a gallon could flow.
EO Charging Built the Plug, the Brain and the Pit Crew - Then the Grid Shifted Beneath It
The British fleet-charging specialist learned that the valuable bit is not the socket. It is knowing which van must leave at dawn, how much power the depot can spare and who answers when a charger sulks at 2 a.m. Its trip from a Suffolk pig shed to Pod and EDF is a sharp lesson in building - and financing - hard climate infrastructure.
GreenRoad Put a Traffic Light in the Cab - Then Turned Safer Driving Into a Score
The fleet-tech veteran built its business on a stubborn idea: the useful moment is not after a harsh turn appears in a dashboard. It is while the driver can still correct it.
The Dash Cam That Learned to Coach: How Lytx Turned 311 Billion Miles Into a Fleet-Safety Business
A brick through a windshield inspired a crash recorder. Twenty-eight years later, Lytx is selling fleets something more ambitious: a system designed to spot risk, coach drivers and make the next collision less likely.
EV Realty
EV Realty develops, owns, and operates high-powered EV charging hubs - 'Powered Properties' - for commercial truck and van fleets across California. The company secures grid power, real estate, and hardware in one package so logistics operators can electrify Class 8 trucks without waiting years for utility interconnects.
L-Charge
L-Charge designs, manufactures, and operates scalable off-grid ultrafast EV charging solutions. Using modular power units that run on natural gas, renewable natural gas, and other low-carbon fuels, the company delivers Charging-as-a-Service to commercial fleets, ports, airports, school districts, and construction sites - bypassing utility queues and grid bottlenecks.
Flipturn
Flipturn is a New York-based software company building the unified control center for EV fleet and charger operations. Its hardware-agnostic, cloud platform connects to any OCPP-compliant charger, giving fleet operators and property managers real-time visibility into charger health, automated load balancing and demand-charge mitigation, driver billing with no app required, and AI-powered diagnostics. Founded in 2022 by Samsara and Stripe alumni Katie Siegel and Sashko Stubailo, Flipturn serves Fortune 500 fleets, municipalities, and multifamily operators, and raised an $11M Series A led by CRV in November 2024.
Aperia Technologies
Aperia Technologies is a Hayward, California hardware-and-software company whose Halo Tire Inflator and Halo Connect platform keep commercial truck tires at the right pressure using only the wheel's rotation. Founded in 2010 by Stanford-trained engineers Josh Carter and Brandon Richardson, the company helps fleets cut fuel use, prevent blowouts, and reduce roadside breakdowns across billions of miles of freight.