Alexander Schabert, ViriCiti: bus fleet monitoring towards an electric future

Alexander Schabert is Co-founder & CCO at ViriCiti, a Dutch telematics company founded in 2012 that shortly became a market leader in fleet monitoring solutions in the United States and Europe, with over 3,500 buses and chargers connected to its platform. ViriCiti is sponsor of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021. Topics of the videointerview: the […]

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Alexander Schabert is Co-founder & CCO at ViriCiti, a Dutch telematics company founded in 2012 that shortly became a market leader in fleet monitoring solutions in the United States and Europe, with over 3,500 buses and chargers connected to its platform. ViriCiti is sponsor of the Sustainable Bus Tour 2021.

Topics of the videointerview: the importance of data for e-bus operations, interoperability standards being adopted, future of depot electrification.

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