Payment systems pose challenge for EV adoption among fleets
Summary
EV roaming hub ChargeHub, which enables activation and payment on more than 80,000 charging stations in the U.S. and Canada, has partnered with payment processor and fleet fuel card provider Comdata to take steps to solve those issues and make the EV charging market easier for fleets to navigate. The partnership expands access to more than 20 charging networks for Comdata customers via the ChargeHub PassportHub solution, which streamlines EV roaming through a single technical, commercial, accounting and legal integration. It also helps drivers using Comdata to limit downtime by planning and optimizing routes with ChargeHub’s extensive public charging information. Likewise, fleets and fleet solution providers cannot spend all their time and resources building new solutions from scratch, defining individual legal and business agreements, and maintaining ongoing individual accounting reconciliation with every charging network.” John Donahue, vice president of EV product and GTM strategy at Comdata parent company FLEETCOR, said the solution Comdata is building with ChargeHub is a step toward providing universal payment acceptance across charging networks. The heavy-duty journey to net zero will take time and require the utilization of bridge fuels (i.e. bio diesel, CNG, LNG, Hydrogen),” he said.