Electrifying a taxi fleet is no longer a sustainability gesture — in cities like London, Oslo, and Dubai it is a cost decision, with cheaper energy per mile and tightening clean-air zones. But an EV fleet dispatched like a petrol one will strand cars and frustrate drivers. The difference is in the dispatch logic.
Dispatch has to know about battery
A 60 km airport run is a different proposition for a car at 30% charge than one at 90%. Battery-aware dispatch treats range as a hard constraint, not an afterthought.
- Never assign a job longer than the car can complete with a safe margin.
- Route low-charge vehicles toward jobs near chargers, or pull them for a top-up before they're stranded.
- Plan charging into the shift around demand troughs, not randomly.
Range anxiety isn't a driver psychology problem — it's a dispatch data problem. If the system can't see state of charge, every long job is a gamble.
Get the battery-aware rules right and the operating-cost advantage of EVs shows up where it matters: a lower cost per mile and drivers who never get caught short.
