en.Wedoany.com Reported - Flexible Power Systems (FPS), an electric vehicle fleet software company, has announced a partnership with Barron McCann, a frontline support and maintenance service provider, aimed at helping fleets scale electric vehicle deployment, enhancing operational reliability and cost efficiency.
Commercial fleet electrification has moved from early pilot phases into larger-scale, more operationally demanding deployments. As van and truck fleets expand, the challenge is no longer just about selecting vehicles or installing charging points, but ensuring that electric assets can be planned, managed, maintained, and kept available as part of daily complex operations. Fleet operators need to manage infrastructure availability, vehicle status, energy constraints, charging costs, route suitability, utilization rates, and return on investment, while fulfilling customer service commitments and achieving net-zero targets.
This partnership combines FPS's expertise in software, data, and fleet transformation with Barron McCann's frontline support, nationwide engineering, deployment, and maintenance capabilities. Together, the two companies offer clients end-to-end services ranging from transformation planning and pilot projects to scaled deployment, continuous optimization, and charging infrastructure uptime support.
FPS provides data-driven electric vehicle transformation planning and fleet operations software for commercial vehicle operators. Its FPS Operate platform integrates data from the entire fleet ecosystem—including vehicles, charging infrastructure, buildings, and operations—to deliver real-time control tower views, automated analytics, and alert services. The platform automatically optimizes vehicle and task assignments, en-route charging stops, and charging schedules, helping operators manage deployment risks, reduce operational costs, and validate carbon reduction and cost savings as they scale.
Barron McCann offers end-to-end electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support services across the UK. Its services include 7x24 frontline support, remote monitoring and diagnostics, helpdesk support, and nationwide on-site response through field engineering teams. Barron McCann also leverages its logistics and configuration facilities to help maintain the availability of critical charging technologies, reducing customer downtime and maximizing charging infrastructure utilization.
By integrating their capabilities, this partnership will provide fleet customers with more comprehensive support for scaled electric vehicle operations. Clients can plan deployments with greater confidence, manage vehicles and charging infrastructure in real time, improve utilization rates, maintain infrastructure performance, reduce complexity, and demonstrate measurable progress in cost, carbon reduction, and service targets. The joint solution aims to help fleets integrate electric vehicles into reliable, complex, and highly available daily operations.
Michael Ayres, Managing Director of FPS, stated that as commercial electric vehicle deployments scale up, fleet operators need to maintain performance, control costs, and ensure vehicle and charging infrastructure availability. The partnership with Barron McCann combines FPS's transformation and real-time management software with best-in-class frontline support and charging infrastructure services, helping clients operate their fleets with confidence.
Steve Slater, Head of Electrical and Electric Vehicles at Barron McCann, added that fleet electrification presents significant opportunities, but success depends on reliable infrastructure, responsive support, and practical operational expertise. By partnering with FPS, they can offer clients a comprehensive solution to help them reliably transform, scale, and operate electric vehicle fleets.
